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Kenyan president will receive White House praise over troops-to-Haiti move − but lack of action across Americas should prompt regional soul-searching

  • Written by Jorge Heine, Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University

Kenyan President William Ruto will attend a rare U.S. state reception for an African leader on May 23, 2024 – but much of the chat will be about a third country: Haiti.

Kenyan troops are preparing to deploy to the Caribbean nation as part of a U.N.-backed mission aimed at bringing stability to a country ravaged by gang violence.

The White...

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Biden and Trump will fight for Michigan’s votes county by county in a state where little things matter a lot

  • Written by Dante Chinni, Director, American Communities Project, Michigan State University
imageSomali Americans cast their early votes at the Lansing city clerk's office on November 2, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan. John Moore/Getty Images

Between now and Election Day, journalists are going to spend a lot of time talking about Michigan as one of a group of “crucial battleground states” in the 2024 campaign. There will be stories...

Read more: Biden and Trump will fight for Michigan’s votes county by county in a state where little things...

Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasion

  • Written by Stephen Norris, Professor of History; Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Miami University
imageThe Soviet Union's leading newspaper only mentioned D-Day in small print at the very top of its front page on June 7, 1944.Pravda

When Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to participate in the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in France in 2019, he claimed it was “not a problem” because the Allied invasion of...

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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago

  • Written by James Sandy, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
imageU.S. Army Rangers prepare to depart England for the D-Day invasion.Photo12/UIG/Getty Images

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.

Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses,...

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For many American Jews protesting for Palestinians, activism is a journey rooted in their Jewish values

  • Written by Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
imageActivists with Jewish Voice for Peace gather to protest the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and chain themselves to the fence outside the White House on Dec. 11, 2023.AP Photo/Susan Walsh

In April 2024, during Passover, a group of American rabbis approached a border crossing in Israel. Affiliated with Rabbis for Ceasefire, the group joined Jewish Israeli...

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Georgia Supreme Court justice appointed by governor wins election to full term – a common occurrence in some states where voters are supposed to pick their judges

  • Written by Bryna Godar, Staff Attorney, State Democracy Research Initiative, University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageMinnesota has elections for Supreme Court justices, who serve in this building, but the governor appoints almost every one of them instead.Dennis Macdonald/Photodisc/Getty Images

A Georgia Supreme Court incumbent has successfully fought off an election challenge from a former Democratic member of Congress. Justice Andrew Pinson, first appointed to...

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A century ago, anti-immigrant backlash almost closed America’s doors

  • Written by Matthew Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Miami University
imageImmigrant children at Ellis Island in New York, 1908.National Archives/Wikimedia Commons

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduced immigration from eastern and southern Europe and practically...

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United Auto Workers’ defeat at Mercedes’ Alabama plants underscores challenges for organized labor in Southern states

  • Written by Stephen J. Silvia, Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
imageMercedes employees rally for union support in Alabama on May 5, 2024.AP Photo/Kim Chandler

A majority of the workers at two Mercedes plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, rejected an opportunity to join the United Auto Workers union in an election that concluded on May 17, 2024.

UAW supporters lost 2,642 to 2,045, just one month after the workers at a...

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TikTok law threatening a ban if the app isn’t sold raises First Amendment concerns

  • Written by Anupam Chander, Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown University
imageTikTok users worry about losing their social media platform, but First Amendment rights are on the line, too.AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey

TikTok, the short-video company with Chinese roots, did the most American thing possible on May 7, 2024: It sued the U.S. government, in the person of Attorney General Merrick Garland, in federal court. The suit claims...

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Expansion of Asian American studies fueled by racial attacks and activism

  • Written by Pawan Dhingra, Associate Provost and Professor of American Studies, Amherst College
imageAsian American studies courses are beginning to draw from more disciplines. gahsoon/E+ via Getty Images

For more than 50 years, Asian American studies has been a recognized field at American colleges and universities. But outside of California, students who want to study it as a major or minor are usually out of luck.

However, the tide is beginning...

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