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Putin's interference in US elections undermines faith in American democracy

  • Written by Pippa Norris, ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney and McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard University
Is your faith in democracy waning?AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

Questions about the legitimacy of the 2016 U.S. presidential election continue to reverberate and deepen partisan mistrust in America.

Doubts have been compounded by the indictment of 12 Russians following intelligence reports of Russian interference with the election. Reports allege the...

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Por qué Trump no ha sido impugnado y es probable que nunca lo sea

  • Written by Jacob Neiheisel, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Main Standfirst: Trump con los hombres que podrían reemplazarlo: el vicepresidente Mike Pence, a la izquierda, y el presidente de la Cámara Paul Ryan, a la derecha.Win McNamee/AP Pool

Nota del editor: Destituir a un presidente estadounidense de sus funciones es un proceso que requiere dos pasos. El primer paso es la...

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Uso del español en EEUU no aumenta, pese a la inmigración latina

  • Written by Phillip M Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University

Subyacente en el acalorado debate sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos acecha una preocupación a menudo tácita: el lenguaje. Específicamente, si la inmigración de los países de habla hispana podría o no amenazar el dominio del idioma inglés.

Desde hace tiempo, el lenguaje y la...

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El uso del español en EEUU no aumenta, pese a la inmigración latina

  • Written by Phillip M Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University

Subyacente en el acalorado debate sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos acecha una preocupación a menudo tácita: la lengua. Específicamente, si la inmigración de los países de habla hispana podría o no amenazar el dominio del idioma inglés.

Desde hace tiempo, el idioma y la...

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No aumenta el uso del español en EEUU, a pesar del miedo político sobre la inmigración

  • Written by Phillip M Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University

Subyacente en el acalorado debate sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos acecha una preocupación a menudo tácita: el lenguaje. Específicamente, si la inmigración de los países de habla hispana podría o no amenazar el dominio del idioma inglés.

Desde hace tiempo, el lenguaje y la...

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How the Mormon church's past shapes its position on immigration today

  • Written by Matthew Bowman, Associate Professor of History, Henderson State University
Brigham Young and other men are shown preparing women in dresses for war.Harper's Weekly, volume v. 1, November 28, 1857, p. 768. Scan from BX8609.A1a#466, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee library, Brigham Young University.

On July 24, 1847, Brigham Young and 146 other Mormon pioneers made their way into the Salt Lake Valley. They...

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As emerging economies bring their citizens online, global trust in internet media is changing

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Digital technology was dreamed of as the ultimate connector and leveler, the ideal destroyer of borders and boundaries. The digital community that assembled itself around this summer’s FIFA World Cup shows one example of a true global village, in which people share the same obsessions on the digital planet. That’s a significant...

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As New York looks into whether the Trump Foundation broke the law, criminal charges remain unlikely

  • Written by Daniel Hemel, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago
A demonstrator in New York demanding that President Donald Trump's tax returns be made publicAP Photo/Mary Altaffer

New York authorities have opened an investigation into the Donald J. Trump Foundation to determine whether the president or his charity broke state tax laws.

The state tax probe is just the latest example of the legal trouble the...

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The Federal Reserve needs to remain independent of the whims of politicians

  • Written by Sheila Tschinkel, Visiting Faculty in Economics, Emory University

President Donald Trump recently attacked the Federal Reserve’s policy of gradually raising interest rates, breaking with decades of precedent respecting the U.S. central bank’s independence.

This isn’t the first time the Fed’s cherished independence has been threatened. Some conservative lawmakers have been arguing for...

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Putin the hero

  • Written by Brian Taylor, Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University

After U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented performance at a press conference with Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit on July 16, Trump was criticized across the political spectrum for apparently siding with Putin rather than the U.S. intelligence community about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Multiple Republican senators...

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