Tag: US Congress
Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood...
Rachel Rebouché, Temple University
Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network...
What Trump’s budget proposal says about his environmental values
Stan Meiburg, Wake Forest University and Janet McCabe, Indiana University
To understand the federal government’s true priorities, follow the...
What is reconciliation − the legislative shortcut Republicans are using to...
Linda J. Bilmes, Harvard Kennedy School
The word “reconciliation” sounds benign, even harmonious.
But in Washington,...
Presidents of both parties have launched military action without Congress declaring...
Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology
In the wake of the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities on June...
Forcible removal of US Sen. Alex Padilla signals a dangerous shift...
Charlie Hunt, Boise State University
Democratic leaders and a lone Republican senator, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, quickly decried the treatment...
National security advisers manage decision-making as advocates or honest brokers
Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The removal of Mike Waltz as President Donald...
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens...
Jennifer Tucker, Wesleyan University
I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my...
Why was it hard for the GOP – which controls Congress...
Charlie Hunt, Boise State University
Facing a threat of imminent government shutdown, nine Democrats joined GOP Senate colleagues to...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
