Good to Know: Public backlash Alexander Kustov - May 6, 2024 It’s important to understand the role – and risk – of backlash in today’s politics.
Welcome the Good Authority fellows! Kim Yi Dionne and John Sides - April 16, 2024 Meet our six new fellows.
Good to Know: Intersectionality Zein Murib - February 1, 2024 It’s a way of looking at how laws, institutions, and identities are shaped by numerous interlocking forces such as bias about race, sex, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexuality.
What persuades Southerners to take down Confederate symbols? Hearing it’s good for business. Jordan Peterson and Christian Grose - July 2, 2020 Mississippi’s chamber of commerce lobbied the state to change its flag
Why Saudi Arabia is building the tallest building in the world Haakon Gjerløw and Carl Knutsen - May 15, 2019 Autocracies build more skyscrapers.
What Cindy Hyde-Smith’s victory in Mississippi tells us about the South Seth McKee - November 29, 2018 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3606"] Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) celebrates her
Jon Tester and Matt Rosendale are fighting over who’s the ‘real’ Montanan. Here’s how that affects voters. Kal Munis and Nicholas Jacobs - July 18, 2018 Recently, President Trump visited Montana to campaign against U.S. Sen.
Having fewer veterans in Congress makes it less likely to restrain the president’s use of force Danielle Lupton - November 10, 2017 With four U.S. soldiers killed in Niger, debate has begun again
Justice Roberts said political science is ‘sociological gobbledygook.’ Here’s why he said it, and why he’s mistaken. Philip Rocco - October 4, 2017 [caption id="attachment_64491" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called
When does Islam generate Western anxiety? Mujtaba Isani and Daniel Silverman - July 28, 2016 [caption id="attachment_44565" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A girl reads the Koran during