Tag: politics
Why is the NRA boycott working so quickly?
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
The boycott of the National Rifle Association following its response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, came fast and...
Farmers and services industry the winners under the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership...
Giovanni Di Lieto, Monash University
The revived trade agreement, now known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), has finally made it...
For black celebrities like Oprah, it’s impossible to be apolitical
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina
Oprah Winfrey’s rousing Golden Globe speech has many speculating whether the media mogul will become a presidential candidate...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
Germany enters political no-man’s land as Angela Merkel wrestles with election...
Daniel Hough, University of Sussex
Angela Merkel is in trouble. Serious trouble. Negotiations to form the next German government have collapsed dramatically. Quite where the...
How the refugee crisis is playing out on the German stage
Emily Goodling, Stanford University
Since 2015, over one million refugees have entered Germany. As a political event, the so-called refugee crisis continues to...
Trump’s vow to ‘destroy’ Johnson Amendment could wreak havoc on charitable...
Philip Hackney, Louisiana State University and Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
President Donald Trump recently pledged to “destroy” the Johnson Amendment, a 63-year-old...
Experts’ roundtable: The future of journalism in Trump’s America
Gerry Lanosga, Indiana University, Bloomington ; Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon; Frank Waddell, University of Florida; Glenn Scott, Elon University, and Jennifer Glover Konfrst,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
