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Climate of fear is driving local officials to quit – new study from California finds threats, abuse rampant

  • Written by Rachel Locke, Director, Violence, Inequality and Power Lab, Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego

Threats and harassment are pushing some politicians out of office, scaring off some would-be candidates and even compelling some elected officials to change their vote.

Those are some of the conclusions of a new study I led on political violence in Southern California.

Rising threats against public officials is a national problem.

Between 2013 and...

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What does the US attorney general actually do? A law professor explains

  • Written by Jennifer Selin, Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
imageU.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland during a news conference announcing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple on March 21, 2024. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Shortly after former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration to serve as U.S. attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump announced he would nominate Pam Bondi for the...

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3D-printed guns, like the one allegedly used to kill a health care CEO, are a growing threat in the US and around the world

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
imageA federal firearms official displays several guns that are either entirely or partially 3D-printed.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Police investigating the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Dec. 4, 2024, have announced that the suspected assailant had used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved...

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Colorado now has one of the nation’s most liberal abortion access laws, but ballot measures to restrict abortion have a long history in the state

  • Written by Anne Whitesell, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University

With the passage of Amendment 79 in November 2024, Colorado voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment solidifies the state’s status as one of the most liberal in the country on the issue.

It is a status that has been challenged over and over.

Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, Coloradans have...

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A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
imageMany Americans are choosing not to engage with politics, instead sticking their heads in the sand to protect their mental health. iStock/Getty Images Plus

“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I asked about her political news consumption in the weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

This...

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How should we look to history to make sense of Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson?

  • Written by Richard White, Professor of American History, Stanford University
imageLuigi Mangione has been arrested and charged in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

I’m a Gilded Age historian who has drawn parallels between our current moment and the late 19th century, two periods known for staggering economic inequality and sweeping technological change.

But much of the coverage of t...

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The Wanamaker organ has been part of a treasured holiday tradition in Philly for over 100 years − a historian explains its illustrious past and uncertain future

  • Written by Whitney Martinko, Associate Professor of History, Villanova University

After Macy’s announced in November 2023 its plans to close approximately 150 locations across the United States, some Philadelphians fretted – not so much about the fate of the Center City department store, but about a local treasure housed inside.

What would happen to the 120-year-old Wanamaker organ and annual Christmas light show?

As...

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What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone

  • Written by James B. Rebitzer, Wexler Professor of Management, Economics and Public Policy, Boston University
imagePBMs control which drugs insurers cover, for how much and for whom.cagkansayin/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Wegovy and Ozempic are weight loss drugs that promise to transform the treatment of obesity, heart disease and other chronic conditions that afflict millions of Americans. But while everyone agrees these drugs have the potential to transform...

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How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory

  • Written by Jordan Brasher, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Macalester College
imageA Confederate Festival attendee visits the American cemetery in Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Brazil, on April 24, 2016. Mario Tama/Getty Images

There were no antebellum hoop skirts at the site of Brazil’s annual “Festa Confederada,” or Confederate Festival, in 2024. Flag poles that once flew the Brazilian flag alongside the red, white...

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The moral dimension to America’s flawed health care system

  • Written by Nicole Hassoun, Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
imageA nurse peers through a small window in a COVID-19 unit of Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., on Dec. 21, 2020. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has set off soul-searching among many Americans. Part of that reflection is about the public reaction to Thompson’s death and the sympathy the suspect...

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  9. What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools
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  11. Luigi Mangione isn’t the first alleged criminal to capture many people’s imaginations – and hearts
  12. Assault on DEI: Critics use simplistic terms to attack the programs, but they are key to uprooting workplace bias
  13. Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan impeachment effort
  14. ‘Love Is Blind’ contestants count as employees − new US government agency finding could shake up reality TV production
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  16. Listening for the right radio signals could be an effective way to track small drones
  17. At 88, Pope Francis dances the tango with the global Catholic Church amid its culture wars
  18. More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is still a pillar of African American theater
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  24. How liberals lost comedy − and helped Trump win
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  30. How nostalgia led to the invention of the first Christmas card
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