Trump’s campaign challenges the conventions of politics and liberal democracy. So maybe the time has come to question how journalists practice objectivity.
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Two weeks ago Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz were riding high. The New York primary changes all that with decisive victories for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Many groups have been labeled ‘enemy’ in the American past. A literary scholar looks at the role literature and philosophy have played in dispelling fears and shifting public attitudes.
The story of New York’s 1992 Democratic primary – when another Clinton beat another left wing candidate with the help of another Cuomo.
As part of a collaboration between The Conversation and PBS’s Point Taken, a professor from The Ohio State University examines some common misconceptions about Syrian refugees.
New research on first impressions offers hope that the presidential front-runners may still be able to win over voters who have unfavorable opinions of them.
Georgia State law scholar looks to the Constitution for limits.
A classical political science debate focuses on whether democracy is dependent on development. The director of the Electoral Integrity Project revisits the issue using new data from African elections.
The U.S. and France responded to terrorist acts by passing surveillance laws. What could Belgium learn from their example?
Sanders won big in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary, but that doesn’t mean the nomination is within his reach.
Sanders is relying on small donors like no candidate before him. Trump is mostly bankrolling his own campaign. Time to take another look at the conventional wisdom.
A majority of U.S. citizen oppose Syrian refugee resettlement. We run the numbers to put the perceived risk in perspective.
The RNC and DNC are indifferent to young voters – and the young voters are returning the favor.
The urgent need to respond to ISIS has redefined the use of “self-defense” to include attacking a nonstate threat in another country. But what are the implications of this? change?
Ensuring complete security against terrorist attacks, especially against vulnerable targets in Europe, is all but impossible. Here’s why.
For an unlucky few, an execution can mean the death of their own hopes of overturning a wrongful conviction.
Scholars specializing in extremism are beginning to unravel how people – including a higher number of Americans than one might expect – become radicalized to embrace political violence.
America is not a shining example for developing democracies. Many of the electoral issues arise long before a single vote is cast.
Confirmation hearings are important to the health of American democracy – so bring on Merrick Garland’s.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never answered this question. Here’s what the lower courts have said.
We examine the highlights in 334 legal opinions written by Obama’s pick to replace Antonin Scalia.
Winning isn’t everything. Bernie Sanders has had a profound effect on the Democratic Party.
A brokered convention just got more likely for the Republicans.
The word may be new, but the first time the ‘birther’ political ploy was used was in the 1916 presidential elections.
He was a former Democrat, a business tycoon and a media star. The story of Wendell Willkie, the Republicans’ surprise candidate in the 1940 election and how he disrupted the GOP.