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November 15, 2023
Tori Otten
Mike Johnson’s New Chief of Staff Has Ties to a Dangerous Far-Right Group
Ruth Ward, the new House speaker’s chief of staff, may be more extreme than her boss.
January 16, 2017
Kenyatta R. Gilbert
What Shaped Martin Luther King Jr.’s Prophetic Vision?
King was a preacher as well as an activist, and that's no accident.
December 30, 2016
Adam Behr
The Year’s Celebrity Deaths Reveal a Pop Culture Deeper and Richer Than Ever
December 20, 2016
Mabel Berezin
Donald Trump is a Uniquely American Populist
He's in a different category from far-right European leaders like Marine Le Pen.
December 8, 2016
S. Shyam Sundar
There’s a Psychological Reason for the Appeal of Fake News
We tend to trust our friends more than experts. Now we're paying for it.
November 30, 2016
Raymond Hogler
What’s Behind the Decline of American Unions?
Organized labor is getting weaker. The result is Donald Trump.
November 7, 2016
Jesse Rhodes
America Is No Stranger to Election Violence
Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric invokes a long history of political violence in America.
October 28, 2016
Eric D. Knowles, Linda R. Tropp
The Rise of White Identity Politics
The age of Trump largely exists because of a resurgent white racial identity.
October 27, 2016
Matthew Jordan
In a Post-Truth Election, Clicks Trump Facts
Trump's campaign is floundering, but it's still big business for media giants like CNN.
October 26, 2016
J.B. Silvers
It’s Time to Fix Obamacare
It won't be easy, but these changes could save Obama's healthcare legacy.
October 25, 2016
Matthew Kahn
As Chinese Incomes Rise, So Does Pollution
October 24, 2016
Elizabeth C. Tippett
Corporations Ignore Whistleblowers at Their Peril
Wells Fargo could have saved itself some trouble by listening to employees.
October 21, 2016
Eric McDaniel
Will Religious Feelings Sway the Election?
An individual's feelings about Muslims can predict the way they'll vote.
October 19, 2016
Per Urlaub
Why Is the U.S. Green Party So Irrelevant?
In countries like Germany, the Green Party wields real power. But in America, not so much.
October 17, 2016
Timothy J. Williams
Evangelicals Aren’t Always Conservatives
Members of the Christian left are 2016's forgotten values voters.
October 14, 2016
Shima Baughman, Christopher Robertson, Sunita Sah
For Fairer Courts, Address Prosecutor Bias
October 13, 2016
Pippa Norris
It’s Time to Fix the Voting Process
October 12, 2016
Donald Nieman
Donald Trump’s Campaign Is an Echo of Reconstruction-era Racism
October 11, 2016
Jason von Meding, Giuseppe Forino
For Haiti, Hurricane Matthew Is an Unnatural Disaster
International intervention made the situation worse, not better.
October 10, 2016
Chip Colwell
Corporations Have Rights. Why Not Nature?
Extending personhood rights to nature could protect valuable public resources.

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