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Andrew E. Busch

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Professor and Associate Director, Institute of American Civics, University of Tennessee

A worker inspects a ballot the day after California’s primary election at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 3, 2026. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

July 23, 2026

Mail ballot mirages aren’t fraud, but mail ballot fraud isn’t a complete myth

Andrew E. Busch, University of Tennessee

Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud claims are false, though.

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, center, introduces Russian and Japanese delegates during negotiations at the Portsmouth Peace Conference in Kittery, Maine, in August 1905. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

May 2, 2025

When presidents try to make peace: What Trump could learn from Teddy Roosevelt, Carter, Clinton and his own first term

Andrew E. Busch, University of Tennessee

Donald Trump isn’t the first US president to try to negotiate a peace deal. But he appears to be doing it differently than others.

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