Tag: US Congress
Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t...
Courtney Schultz, Colorado State University; Forrest Fleischman, University of Minnesota, and Tony Cheng, Colorado State University
The western United...
Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at...
Raquel Aldana, University of California, Davis
Seeking to expand Florida’s role in federal immigration enforcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis...
‘Big’ legislative package shifts more of SNAP’s costs to states, saving...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
The legislative package that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4, 2025,...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
