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Local elections are less partisan because voters will cross party lines when issues hit close to home

  • Written by Edward L. Lascher Jr., Professor, Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Sacramento

Hand-wringing over American politics commonly focuses on the sharp and growing divisions between Democrats and Republicans.

Accumulating evidence indicates that voters are less likely than ever to split their ticket or vote for candidates from different parties in presidential or congressional races. Polarization over hot-button issues has spiked,...

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Kamala Harris’ sudden political rise echoes that of another female politician, New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern

  • Written by Lydia Nobbs, PhD Candidate in Politics, The New School
imageJacinda Ardern appears with voters in August 2017, shortly before the election in New Zealand. Hannah Peters/Getty Images

Kamala Harris’ quick, unexpected transformation from a low-profile vice president to the headline-dominating Democratic presidential nominee has upended the 2024 election in just a few short weeks.

Across the Pacific...

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How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world

  • Written by Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Professor of Engineering and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
imageRecovery from a hurricane gets even harder when more storms follow, as Lake Charles, La., residents saw.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting disasters, when...

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3 years after fall of Kabul, US Congress has still not acted to secure future of more than 70,000 Afghan evacuees in US

  • Written by Kelsey Norman, Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University

Amid the chaos that followed the U.S. pullout of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021, the Biden administration declared that evacuated Afghans would be allowed to enter the U.S. via humanitarian parole. The initiative would provide them with temporary access to American soil, but not with a pathway to permanent residency.

In the weeks that followed, approx...

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Ukraine’s cross-border incursion challenges Moscow’s war narrative – but will it shift Russian opinion?

  • Written by Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
imageA Ukrainian tank near the border with Russia, on Aug. 12, 2024.Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images

On Aug. 6, 2024, Ukrainian soldiers crossed the border into Kursk province, marking the first invasion of foreign troops into Russian territory since World War II. In the days since, Russian television viewers and social media users have been...

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Historians diving for balloons and hoping for hot dish: What Smithsonian curators will be doing at the Democratic National Convention

  • Written by Claire Jerry, Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
imageCurators from the Smithsonian were at the GOP convention in July to bring back items for the museum, including balloons.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Three political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History are heading to Chicago and the 2024 Democratic National Convention soon to collect stuff – or as the...

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Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them

  • Written by Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
imageClear County, Colo., had three roads using the word 'sq—' until May 2024, when officials renamed them.Tom Hellauer/Denver Gazette

The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later...

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Americans love free speech, survey finds − until they realize everyone else has it, too

  • Written by John G. Geer, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, Head of Vanderbilt's Project on Unity and American Democracy, and Co-Director of Vanderbilt Poll, Vanderbilt University
imageShould there be limits on free speech?Westend61/Westend61 via Getty Images

Americans’ views on free speech change directions every so often. One of those times was during the protests at U.S. universities about the Israel-Hamas war. As scholars of free speech and public opinion, we set out to find out what happened and why.

The Supreme Court...

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Fluid keeps your brain from crushing itself and shields your spine from shock – a neurologist explains what happens when it stops working

  • Written by Danielle Wilhour, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageYour brain produces around a pint of cerebrospinal fluid each day.Archibald Church, Diseases of the nervous system (1908)/Internet Archive via Flickr

Cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, is a clear, colorless liquid that plays a crucial role in maintaining the health and function of your central nervous system. It cushions the brain and spinal cord,...

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Future lawyers learn key lessons from studying poetry in parks in this course

  • Written by Patrick Barry, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Digital Academic Initiatives, University of Michigan
imageMeeting outdoors can lower the burnout that college students may otherwise feel.Armand Burger / E+ via Getty Imagesimage

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

Poetry and Parks

What prompted the idea for the course?

I’ve often found poetry to be a good...

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