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Trump’s assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains

  • Written by Javed Ali, Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
imageRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign event on July 13, 2024.Associated Press

As investigators analyze what led 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former president Donald Trump – and how Crooks was able to fire at the former president at a heavily...

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Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten the risk for political violence, a former FBI official explains

  • Written by Javed Ali, Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
imageRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents at a campaign event on July 13, 2024.Associated Press

As investigators analyze what led 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to try to assassinate former president Donald Trump – and how Crooks was able to fire at the former president at a heavily...

Read more: Trump assassination attempt reveals a major security breakdown – but doesn’t necessarily heighten...

Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher

  • Written by Michael Blake, Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
imageOn July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court granted substantial immunity from criminal charges to former President Donald Trump.AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File

The Supreme Court’s decision that grants presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for their “official acts” has been met by alarm by many legal scholars. Constitutional lawyer Michael...

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Decades after Billie Holiday’s death, ‘Strange Fruit’ is still a searing testament to injustice – and of faithful solidarity with suffering

  • Written by Tracy Fessenden, Professor of Religious Studies, Arizona State University
imageBillie Holiday records her penultimate album, 'Lady in Satin,' in New York in 1957.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of drug use, then lay for hours on a...

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How Smithsonian curators scavenge political conventions to explain the present to the future and save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap

  • Written by Naomi Schalit, Senior Editor, Politics + Democracy, The Conversation US
imageSmithsonian curators collect campaign material like these tall state standards used at the 2016 GOP convention.Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Thousands of Republicans, from a presidential candidate to grassroots party members, began assembling in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024, for that quadrennial political ritual, the party convention. Political...

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Could people turn Mars into another Earth? Here’s what it would take to transform its barren landscape into a life-friendly world

  • Written by Sven Bilén, Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
imageAn artist's illustration of what a terraformed Martian landscape might look like.Mark Stevenson/Stocktrek Images via Getty Imagesimage

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth?...

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Flying in helicopters is safer than you might think – an aerospace engineer explains the technology and training that make it so

  • Written by Edward C. Smith, Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Director: Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence, Penn State
imageA U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in flight.Vlad Lazarenko/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Helicopters draw a lot of attention with their almost magical ability to hover, fly in any direction and operate without runways. They also help save many lives, often dramatically, with their extensive use in all-weather military missions, ambulance duties and...

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Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited

  • Written by Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
imageFew consumers are aware of the migrant and seasonal farmworkers who make Michigan's agricultural economy possible.Getty/ Maguey IMages

Michigan is famous for its fruit festivals. Visitors can sample cherries at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City or blueberries at the National Blueberry Festival in South Haven.

The Apple Festival in...

Read more: Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers are unprotected, poorly paid, uncounted and often exploited

‘One inch from a potential civil war’ – near miss in Trump shooting is also a close call for American democracy

  • Written by Arie Perliger, Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
imageU.S. Secret Service agents help former President Donald Trump offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump,...

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Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public

  • Written by Shannon Bow O'Brien, Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin
imagePresident Joe Biden makes his way to Marine One, flanked by aides and staff, in May 2024. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

President Joe Biden’s at-times incoherent debate performance against Donald Trump in June has prompted growing pressure from donors, some Democratic politicians and voters for Biden to withdraw from the...

Read more: Biden isn’t the first to struggle to pop the presidential bubble that divides him from the public

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