Trump’s NIH restrictions could cost lives and weaken defense Danielle Lupton and Anne Perring - February 5, 2025 National Institutes of Health research is critical to American health – and U.S. military preparedness.
Will foreign policy actually matter in the 2024 U.S. election? Elizabeth N. Saunders - September 21, 2023 It may not matter much to voters, but foreign policy is definitely on the ballot.
Biden’s broad marijuana pardon has precedents Andrew Rudalevige - October 7, 2022 In some ways, it looks like Jimmy Carter’s amnesty for Vietnam War draft dodgers
The U.S. government hasn’t protected noncitizen veterans from deportation. That may change. Elizabeth M.F. Grasmeder - August 12, 2021 The U.S. military has a long history of relying on foreign recruits.
America’s classrooms shut down this spring. Civics lessons shifted to the streets. Matthew Nelsen - June 21, 2020 This is what protests teach about political engagement.
Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, here’s what a U.S. president can and cannot do Steve Vladeck - June 19, 2020 Invoking this statute to deploy the U.S. military would raise constitutional questions
If Trump took responsibility for coronavirus missteps, it might actually help him. David Ryan Miller and Andrew Reeves - March 25, 2020 Our research finds that leaders who claim responsibility get a significant boost
What Bill Barr doesn’t understand about the office of attorney general Cornell W. Clayton - December 17, 2019 The U.S. attorney general’s office started in the judicial branch, not the executive — and has never been entirely under presidential control
Impeachment exists because the Founding Fathers made a mistake. Several, actually. Josep Colomer - December 3, 2019 This explains why the House has turned to impeachment three times in less than 50 years
Trump’s Fourth of July celebration is partisan and militaristic — just like the early Independence Day celebrations Simon Gilhooley - July 4, 2019 Americans in the 19th century wouldn’t have minded the partisanship or military parades, but would have balked at glorifying the commander in chief.