Tag: Trump administration
The bigotry baked into welfare cuts
Sanford Schram, CUNY Graduate Center
The budget blueprint the House of Representatives recently unveiled isn’t a carbon copy of President Donald Trump’s proposal, dubbed “A...
Why police reforms rarely succeed: Lessons from Latin America
Yanilda González, University of Chicago
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions has led people to speculate about the fate of recent police...
How Trump’s nominee for the Fed could turn central banking on...
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
President Donald Trump on July 10 nominated Randal Quarles to be one of the seven governors of the...
Trump’s friendly meeting with Putin further blurs US-Russia relations
Stephen Benedict Dyson, University of Connecticut
It emerged early this morning: a few seconds of grainy footage showing U.S. President Donald Trump shaking hands with...
How China could use trade to force North Korea to play...
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
North Korea got the world’s attention – and President Donald Trump’s – when it said on July 4 that...
Why Congress should let everyone deduct charitable gifts from their taxes
Patrick Rooney, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
The 30 percent of American taxpayers who itemize their returns are free to deduct every dollar they donate to...
4 ways the Supreme Court could rule on Trump’s travel ban
Anthony Johnstone, The University of Montana
The Supreme Court has decided to hear two legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s revised “travel ban.”
Among other things,...
Most expensive race in House history turns out nearly 58 percent...
Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University
I’m a political science professor living in Georgia’s Sixth House district, where Republican Karen Handel eked out a victory of...
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
