Tag: US Senate
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed as Supreme Court justice: 4 essential reads
Matt Williams, The Conversation
The phrase “in a historic vote” gets thrown around a lot in journalism – and...
Ketanji Brown Jackson set for historic Supreme Court confirmation vote: 3...
Matt Williams, The Conversation
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled to vote April 4, 2022, on Ketanji...
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to Supreme Court nomination was paved by...
Sharon D. Wright Austin, University of Florida
Just five women and two African Americans, both men, are among the...
Congress passes $1T infrastructure bill – but how does the government...
Ana Maria Dimand, Boise State University
The U.S. Congress passed an infrastructure bill that funds more than a trillion...
Why Trump is more likely to win in the GOP than...
Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University
Former President Donald Trump has claimed at times that he’ll start a third political party...
Biden gives Congress his vision to ‘win the 21st century’ –...
Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University; Ivory A. Toldson, Howard University, and Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
President Joe...
Debunking the myth of legislative gridlock
Jeb Barnes, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
So much for gridlock.
President Joe...
What’s the gold standard, and why does the US benefit from...
Michael Klein, Tufts University
The phrase “the gold standard” means, in common parlance, the best available benchmark – as in double-blind randomized trials are the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The western US is in a snow drought, and storms have...
Alejandro N. Flores, Boise State University
Much of the western U.S. has started 2026 in the midst of a...
