The Republican Party has a decadeslong relationship with using distrust to incite its base and draw in more supporters – the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks just offer the latest example of this tactic.
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Scholars and journalists have sounded the alarm about the threats to American democracy, including the threat of a simmering coup d’état, further political violence, and even civil war.
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, how political violence has been organized in other areas of the world that can help us anticipate the future of right-wing extremism.
Far-right activists and white supremacists may choose to create what they call their “1776 moment” closer to home.
Donald Trump has become the first U.S. president to be impeached twice. But the ignorance and lawlessness of Trumpism will have a dangerous afterlife even after Trump has left Washington.
Michael McCormack used a phrase that reveals prejudice during his stint as acting Prime Minister.
Donald Trump has failed to understand that the constitutional separation of powers in the United States is its source of strength, not weakness.
After blazing an unprecedented post-election path of inciting violence, Donald Trump’s path forward contains some potential landmines.
Donald Trump’s tenure as president reveals how pathologies are part of what Americans see as their “exceptionalism.”
Biden’s winning campaign message was one of unity. But even the people who study polarization can’t agree on whether it’s possible to unify the United States.
New research suggests that if Donald Trump had handled the COVID-19 pandemic better and kept outbreaks under control, he might have won the Nov. 3 election.
When Trump leaves the White House in January, many American evangelicals will feel that they’ve lost their protector in chief.
Some 44,000 people – about one-hundredth of 1% of the US population – have given $10,000 or more each to this election. So much money from so few donors inevitably distorts the political process.
Who are Donald Trump’s hard-core supporters and why do they pose an increasing threat of violence in the coming U.S. elections — and after?
Americans are mad – fist-fighting, protesting mad. And that’s just how politicians want voters in election season. But the popular anger stoked by candidates doesn’t just dissipate after the campaign.
The cult of the personality surrounding Donald Trump is powerful and will be difficult to dislodge, whatever the outcome of the election in November.
There are many legitimate ways to critique Donald Trump, but demonizing his voters as cult followers doesn’t help us understand why they are attracted to him and how their world view has developed.
Two of the fastest growing segments of the American population Latino and Asian-American voters - also are part of evangelical America. Their views on immigration are very different.
If Ontario’s NDP and Liberals want to undermine Doug Ford’s agenda, they’ll need to learn from other centrist and left-wing politicians who have successfully challenged right-wing populism.
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Professor of law and ethics, Georgia State University
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Professor of History, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
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Professor, Political Science, University of British Columbia
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
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Sessional Instructor, Political Science, University of Guelph
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Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland
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Joseph P. Chamberlain Professor of Legislation, Columbia University
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