Tag: US Senate
The Senate filibuster explained – and why it should be allowed...
Daniel Wirls, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to argue an arcane Senate rule governing debate stands in the...
Keith Krach Confirmed as Under Secretary During U.S. Senate Confirmation Vote...
Washington DC (Life & News) — At 2:30pm EDT on Thursday, June 20th, 2019, during the United States Senate's 116th Congress, 1st Session, Keith...
Will John McCain be the last Republican leader in the Senate...
Tim Profeta, Duke University
“He was just doing his job.”
When I asked a longtime staffer to Sen. John McCain why the senator battled to address...
Why you should vote for a woman in 2018
Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University and Amy Steigerwalt, Georgia State University
This year, women are poised to make great gains in congressional representation.
Across the country,...
What Doug Jones’s win means for Mitch McConnell, Steve Bannon and...
David C. Barker, American University
Here’s the thing about selling your soul: The devil had better deliver. It’s one thing to be damned; it’s another...
Child marriage is still legal in the US
Nicholas Syrett, University of Kansas
The recent outrage over Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore allegedly targeting teenage girls for sex has elicited reports that...
How Republican missteps turned Alabama blue
David Hughes, Auburn University at Montgomery
If there was one Republican in Alabama the Democratic Doug Jones could beat, Roy Moore was that Republican....
How the US tax code bypasses women entrepreneurs
Caroline Bruckner, American University
As Republicans in Congress put the finishing touches on a tax plan that’s aimed at overhauling the system, there is one...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
