Democratic lawmakers have offered a number of ways to reverse decades of widening economic inequality. A tax expert gives them a closer look.
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Calvin Coolidge, during one stretch of his presidency, was getting 15 hours of shut-eye each day, while William Howard Taft was known for nodding off during public events.
The Versailles Conference set up the ill-fated League of Nations. We must not allow the United Nations to suffer the same fate.
Central Americans who came to the US in the 1980s fleeing civil war drew on their background fighting for social justice back home to help unionize farmworkers, janitors and poultry packers in the US.
If you want to understand the new face of conservatism in the US, there's only one place to look.
Most Congresses since the 1970s have passed more than 500 laws, ranging from nuclear disarmament to deficit reduction. Will today's bitter partisanship hamstring the new Congress' productivity?
Though his education initiative staggered while he was in office, the late former President George H.W. Bush had an influence that continues to shape education policy, an education historian says.
President Trump says an alliance with Saudi Arabia is necessary, despite evidence the country's crown prince ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Pik Botha defended apartheid and South Africa's occupation of Namibia, but in the end helped end both.
Almost 30 years ago the world responded to the realisation that our ozone layer was in trouble. The resulting Montreal Protocol was a rare example of global cooperation, but there's no room for complacency.
An April 2017 survey explored Americans’ opinions about government intervention and welfare policies. It found that on average, they want more from their government, but are highly polarised.
Conflicts about policing the border have erupted in much of the world. How people respond depends on the many distinct visions of what borders are meant to be protecting.
At at time of rising hatred and nationalism, Jimmy Carter's speech -- a sermon that cautioned against excess, offers a counterexample.
In 1987, Anthony Kennedy was nominated to end a titanic Supreme Court fight. Could his putative successor trigger another one?
After two years of turmoil at the EPA in the 1980s, President Reagan hit the reset button, choosing a Republican who supported environmental protection to head the agency.
Donald Trump's obsession with trade deficits, and his subsequent wielding of the tariff big guns, is the absolute wrong approach for the U.S. economy.
France’s parliament is debating a law that would allow “fake news” to be censored. While the outcome is uncertain, the precedent is dangerous.
In recent years, Christian television has moved into news and politics. A scholar explains its impact on beliefs and on politics.
Senate confirmation for many of President Trump's nominees has been tough. In this speed read, The Conversation asks: What is Senate confirmation, and why do we do it?
While it might seem like a longstanding tradition, it's a relatively recent phenomenon in the U.S.
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Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Studies., University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Swansea University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
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Postdoctoral Fellow in American History, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie Campus, Penn State
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Senior Director of Research and Evaluation, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Brown University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Oceanography, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London
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Professor of Journalism and Communication, City, University of London
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Masters degree student, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
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Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Boston University
