Coverage of the House Jan. 6 hearings focuses on what went wrong that led up to Trump supporters’ laying siege to the US Capitol. A government scholar looks at what went right, both then and now.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol held its first hearing to present what it has learned during its almost year-long probe. Three scholars analyze the event.
The public hearings of the House Jan. 6 investigative committee will deal with unprecedented events in American history, but the very investigation of these events has strong precedent.
People who are directly affected by mass shootings may develop PTSD and depression. But those who are indirectly exposed to these tragedies can also experience profound and long-lasting grief.
A school shooting in a small Texas town was almost as deadly as the worst such event in US history. Such shootings have increased in frequency over the last few years.
The closure of a factory in Michigan is the incident that put new parents across the US on edge, but the real causes for the shortage of baby formula are many years in the making.
Framers of the Constitution put in a clause giving lawmakers immunity from liability for any ‘speech or debate.’ Interpreting it may be key in the battle to get some Republicans to testify.
The Supreme Court ruled May 2, 2022, in Shurtleff v. Boston, a free speech case.
Images of war, violence, suffering and death can have a traumatic impact on those who view them.
Scholars weigh in on the known and unknown about marijuana and its incarnations.
A transition is underway in Somalia. There are massive risks if it is not handled with great care.
Local governments in Oklahoma are adapting to a 2020 Supreme Court ruling, but state officials have chosen a different path.
By creating both an urgent need for mental health care and the need to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic is enabling telemedicine to go mainstream.
The joke that sparked a violent reaction from actor Will Smith at the Oscars centered on his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss. A dermatologist explains the causes and treatment for alopecia.
Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do – a practice diagnosed by political author George Orwell as ‘doublespeak,’ or the language of totalitarians.
Ukrainian children, refugees and military personnel will be among those hardest hit with PTSD due to the Russian invasion.
Si l’on parle beaucoup de résilience aujourd’hui, la recherche montre aussi que les traumatismes subis dans l’enfance ont un impact à long terme et modèlent notre vision du monde en tant qu’adultes.
Bullied teens reported heightened anxiety when they were attending in-person school, but not when they were attending online school.
In some cases, fever reducers and extra fluid intake can weaken the body’s response to infection.
Justices have cleared the way for hundreds of Trump administration documents to be handed to a panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack. A law scholar explains what that means for executive privilege.
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Wayne State University
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Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Wayne State University
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Director of the Washington Office of the Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Teaching, Wayne State University
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Chair of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, Wayne State University
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Dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College and Professor of Philosophy, Wayne State University
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Professor of Law, Wayne State University
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Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of Business and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law, Wayne State University
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Graduate Student, Department of Urban Planning, Wayne State University
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Research Assistant in Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Professor of Supply Chain Management, Wayne State University
