States are still trying to ban trans youths from sports. Here’s what you need to know. Elizabeth Sharrow, Jaime Schultz, Lindsay Parks Pieper, Anna Baeth, and Danne Diamond - April 10, 2024 State legislators have proposed dozens of bills targeting trans children. What’s at stake?
Jan. 6 hearings show a democracy in crisis. Civic education can help. Lauren C. Bell, Katherine M. Robiadek, John P. Forren, and Carah Ong Whaley - June 28, 2022 Public education once trained young citizens to be part of democracy. Here’s what’s needed now.
Biden has resettled the fewest refugees in the history of the U.S. program. What could change that? Reva Dhingra, Olivia Woldemikael, and Mitchell Kilborn - November 2, 2021 Refugees bring communities a net financial gain, research finds
Huawei has an advantage in its push for global dominance. Now the U.S. is trying to counter it. Jordan Link - November 19, 2020 USAID announced a financing plan to help countries buy from other telecom vendors
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris both identify as Black. The news media doesn’t describe both that way. Maryann H. Kwakwa and Andrea Pena-Vasquez - September 16, 2020 Harris is much more likely to be described as multiracial.
Turkey issued new rules for social media. That may mean that media censorship wasn’t working. Max Hoffman, Andrew O’Donohue, and Alan Makovsky - July 29, 2020 More Turks have been getting their news online
Are the Dreamers safe now that the Supreme Court ruled? Not exactly. Here’s what’s still up in the air. Ming Hsu Chen - June 19, 2020 Their lives are still in flux, depending on where they live and what the courts decide next.
Trump-Biden voters could decide the 2020 election Ruy Teixeira and John Halpin - May 19, 2020 Nine percent of Trump’s 2016 voters say they’re planning to vote for Biden, our data suggest.
Women are mysteriously missing from D.C. think tanks’ foreign policy panels. Here’s the data. Mimosa Giamanco and Federiga Bindi - August 21, 2019 Here’s the fifth article in our series on the gender gap in political science.
More states are registering voters automatically. Here’s how that affects voting. Robert Griffin and Paul Gronke - June 16, 2017 In May 2017, the Illinois House of Representatives unanimously passed