After eight years in office, Gov. Ron DeSantis leaves Florida much more conservative than he found it.
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Florida voters don’t like Gov. DeSantis’ redistricting plans, but it doesn’t tend to be a vote-determining issue.
Scaling back Florida’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program could mean a resurgence of HIV/AIDS and increased health care costs throughout the state.
Florida leads the nation in executions in a year that has seen an increase in the number of inmates put to death nationwide.
Florida’s state Legislature will decide in early 2026 whether to eliminate long-standing obligations for schools to require their students to be vaccinated.
In Iowa, the Ron DeSantis super PAC Never Back Down seemed intent on mocking the dividing line federal regulators set between campaigns and the PACs that support them.
Debates have played an important part in the American political process. And when candidates don’t participate, democracy suffers.
There have been numerous efforts to limit students’ access to books and curricula about certain historical and societal topics. But history itself shows democracy suffers when people are uninformed.
Democrats may have pushed Iowa out of the early-state presidential nominating lineup, but Republicans are sticking with Iowa first.
Some Republicans have claimed that a crisis exists on the US southern border. But federal immigration statistics tell a different story about the GOP’s overblown numbers.
The recent anti-migrant actions of the Florida and Texas governors reflect specific hatreds that date back to the very beginnings of European settlement in North America.
A formal legal investigation would be needed to determine whether the Florida governor and associates violated human trafficking or other laws.
Threats to law enforcement have risen in the aftermath of the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Florida estate. Does ‘message laundering’ by top GOP figures have something to do with it?
Florida Republicans’ war on Disney is only the latest example of the GOP’s being at odds with a company that has historically backed the party.
The University of Florida is barring three scholars from testifying as expert witnesses in a highly political lawsuit. A veteran college administrator looks at what’s at stake.
If it sounds like the law is all over the place on school mask mandates, that’s because it is. The nation’s schools are subject to a complex web of local, state and federal laws.
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Penn State
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Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
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Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University
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Associate Professor of Law, Arizona State University
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Professor, and Director, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Professor of Communication Studies, Colorado State University
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Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College
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Assistant Professor of Management, Indiana University
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Professor of Strategic Communication, College of Charleston
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Professor Emeritus, College of Medicine, Florida State University
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Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Florida International University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College