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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, in a wheelchair as she returns to the Senate after a more than two-month absence, May 10, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

May 18, 2023

Feinstein just the latest example of an old problem: Politicians have long been able to evade questions about their ability to serve

David E. Clementson, University of Georgia

Physical ailments and deteriorated health may be the one area in which politicians can escape scrutiny.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, right, with his wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman. Mark Makela/Getty Images

March 3, 2023

Politicians’ health problems are important information for voters – but reporters and candidates often conceal them

David E. Clementson, University of Georgia

Health struggles are part of the human condition, but politicians often resist revealing full medical records. The media often help lawmakers hide their conditions. That shortchanges the voters.

A group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images

February 3, 2023

Civil rights legislation sparked powerful backlash that’s still shaping American politics

Julian Maxwell Hayter, University of Richmond

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.

Wearing his military uniform, Jackie Robinson signs a contract on Oct. 23, 1945 to becomes the first Black to play with a white professional baseball team. Bettmann/Getty Images

April 14, 2023

Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’

Chris Lamb, Indiana University

Like millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson was a republican. That changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks.

July 2, 2015

The political work of the Confederate flag

Joseph Crespino, Emory University

Public opinion on the flag may have shifted with lightning speed, but how did it hold on as long as it did? The answer has to do with how it served both Democratic and Republican parties alike.

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