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Trump wanted to turn the US military on American citizens while he was president. He has increaslngly said he would do so if he wins the White House in 2024.
Research shows that when abortion rights are on the ballot, democracy wins − including in the US.
Every state’s regulations and procedures are different, and it is vital that you understand the requirements and opportunities to vote where you live.
Debates are moments in time, but even years later, key items can evoke their history and reinforce their importance in American democracy.
Between her ‘coconut context’ and embracing a ‘brat summer’, Harris is certainly leaning into young people’s discourse surrounding the election. In many ways, her quirks have become her strengths.
How does someone with power and fame walk away from it? It’s not easy, as these three examples from politics and sports show.
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
Most efforts to project how well a candidate will do in an election are based largely on factors over which presidents have little to no control.
Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli dissected the threats authoritarian figures pose to representative government.
Donald Trump’s consistent attacks on the US justice system may have done significant damage.
If the presidential election ends in a tie, then what? The winner might not even be 1 of the 2 people who tied for the most votes.
Trump’s efforts may appear to play by the rules, but in reality they ignore key aspects of the rule of law because he does not act in good faith.
Members of the military take an oath before service, but it’s to the Constitution, not a specific person. West Point professors explain how young officers learn the importance of their allegiance.
What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those who think the 2020 election was stolen?
Right from the very beginning of the nation, there have been rules that limit the ability of the people to choose their leaders.
US law has long held that those who support rebels and insurrectionists are just as guilty of treason as those who support foreign enemies.
A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
Colorado’s Supreme Court has removed Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot. A scholar of constitutional law explains why.
His key opponent is an incendiary character in a world of legal trouble. So why isn’t Joe Biden in a better position to win the 2024 presidential race than he seems to be?
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Mathematics and Democracy, Wellesley College
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University System of Maryland Regents Professor of Law, University of Maryland
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Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
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American Politics Program Director, United States Military Academy West Point
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Professor of Government and Politics and Director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, University of Maryland
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland
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Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of American Politics, United States Military Academy West Point
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Director, Missouri S&T Policy and Armed Forces Research and Development Institute; Lecturer of History, National Security, and Leadership, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
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