Russia believed the West was weak and decadent. So it invaded. Kristina Stoeckl and Dmitry Uzlaner - April 14, 2022 Russia sees itself at the global forefront of the culture wars, leading the resistance to gay parades, ‘cancel culture,’ and liberal values more generally
Russia believes tanks trump international law. Smaller countries like Kenya are using the U.N. to push back. Anjali Dayal - February 26, 2022 Here’s what we learned from the U.N. Security Council emergency meetings on Ukraine
Biden reversed Trump ban on transgender people serving in military. Expect backlash in states. Zein Murib - February 2, 2021 More than 20 bills restricting transgender freedoms have already been introduced.
The ‘Trump Pride’ rally won’t win over LGBTQ voters. So why hold it? Zein Murib, Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte, Phillip Ayoub, and Gabriele Magni - October 26, 2020 Welcome to “homonationalism,” or justifying anti-immigrant policies by arguing that immigrants threaten gay rights.
Trump is going back to holding rallies. He might be helping Biden. Jordan Peterson and Boris Heersink - June 17, 2020 His campaign visits in 2016 also mobilized donations by Democrats
A new kind of anti-trans legislation is hitting the red states Zein Murib - February 25, 2020 Here’s the new target, after ‘bathroom bills’ failed and marriage equality won
The Republican Party is white and Southern. How did that happen? Jeffery Jenkins and Boris Heersink - February 7, 2020 Its leaders made a decision to push out blacks. That helped it to dominate Southern politics.
Will voters support Elizabeth Warren’s trade policy? Our research says yes. Ida Bastiaens and Evgeny Postnikov - September 29, 2019 Including labor and environmental protections in trade deals boosts popular support for free trade
How has Tiananmen changed China? Yuhua Wang - June 3, 2019 Violence can influence people for a long time — despite repression — because families talk about it.
The DNC voted to strip superdelegates of their powers. Will it matter for 2020? Boris Heersink - September 4, 2018 [caption id="attachment_77305" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A model of the White House