While not topping any lists for great presidents, Carter has long championed causes that have never been more relevant, from peace in the Middle East to climate change.
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While 4 presidents have been killed, many others have been victims of plots to end their lives − sometimes because of political anger, but many other times for incomprehensible reasons.
From inflation to abortion, foreign policy and democracy, the two presidential candidates went at it fiercely during their prime-time debate. Two scholars – of race and of journalism – weigh in.
Debates are moments in time, but even years later, key items can evoke their history and reinforce their importance in American democracy.
No Democrat from California has ever won the US presidency.
For decades, presidents and presidential aspirants have tried (with varying degrees of success) to use music and musicians to connect with voters.
Independent voters who feel high levels of nostalgia were more likely to vote for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump adds to the long history of presidents and presidential candidates in the United States who have been the victims of gun violence.
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and other presidents showed that getting limited information as president can have some benefits – but also risks.
Though largely unread, party platforms are a vital clue about which groups hold real power in the two major national parties and can help predict what the government will actually do.
Featuring several unique rules, including no live audience and mics that cut off when it’s not a speaker’s turn, the debate might help shape the 2024 presidential race.
In 1984, the album was atop the charts, and Ronald Reagan, running for reelection, told a New Jersey audience that he and the Boss shared the same American dream. Springsteen vehemently disagreed.
The fight up the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc and the battle across Omaha Beach were spearheaded by a relatively new type of unit: Army Rangers.
Hate crime legislation is often touted as a progressive tool to end violence and champion inclusion. Its origins tell a more complicated story.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
Project 2025 is iconoclastic and dystopian. Those who wish to understand Trump and the movement behind him, and the active threat they pose to American democracy, are obliged to take it seriously.
The risk for the president is that he has not anticipated just how much his own foreign policy might undermine his message and the strength of his personal appeal.
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
Nikki Haley claims Donald Trump is running as a quasi-incumbent and should be doing much better against her than he is. That’s wishful thinking, says a political scientist.
While Ronald Reagan is closely tied to this conservative conference’s origins, it has become a multiday event for die-hard Trump supporters.
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
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Executive Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of International Relations Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham; BASIC
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Professor at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London
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Professor and Knight Center Chair in Media & Religion, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in International Relations, Swansea University
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Professor of History, Gonzaga University
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Professor Emerita of Law, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Human Sciences and Culture, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Erie Campus, Penn State
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand