by Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Most of the Trump administration’s legal disputes involving the firing of high-level officials…
by Erica De Bruin, Hamilton College, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have intensified over the past year,…
by Steven Lamy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In 2019, during his first term, U.S. President Donald…
by John E. Jones III, Dickinson College, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and…
by Andrea Katz, Washington University in St. Louis, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state…
by Timothy Joseph, College of the Holy Cross, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In a week filled with news about President Donald Trump’s aggressive moves…
by Saman Zonouz, Georgia Institute of Technology, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of…
by Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The question the First Amendment keeps asking, across wars and panics and…
by Micah Altman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Philip N. Cohen, University of Maryland, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] A growing distrust of expertise…
Photo: Derek Dooley, by John Tures By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College When I told a local resident that I was going to see Derek Dooley,…