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By W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections, Updated Edition This article was originally published on The Conversation. Preelection polls have been inescapable early in the 2024 election year, setting storylines, as they invariab...

By Samantha Barbas, author of Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan Sarah Palin’s loss in her well-publicized libel suit against the New York Times in February 2022 could result in a decision affecting the most significant First Amendment ru...

By W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections This post was originally published on The Conversation on July 20, 2021 More than eight months after the acute polling embarrassment in the 2020 U.S. elections – that produced the s...

By Sahar Aziz, author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom On his first day in office, President Biden repealed the “Muslim Ban,” an executive order issued by Trump on January 27, 2017. This repeal was a welcome development for the hundreds of thousands of Muslim...

Visit our #ACJS2021 virtual exhibit to get 40% off the book. By Shannon Reid and Matthew Valasik, authors of Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White “What’s past is prologue.” The violent insurrection that transpired following President Trump’s public ranting at the “Save America...

The historic clemency power of the U.S. President, set forth in Article II of the Constitution and interpreted by the Supreme Court to have few restrictions, has long been the subject of controversy and debate. From George Washington’s pardon of participants in the Whiskey Rebellion t...

By W. Joseph Campbell, author of Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in U.S. Presidential Elections This post was originally published on The Conversation, and is reposted here with permission. Election polling is facing yet another reckoning following its uneven-at-best performan...

By Laura Briggs, author of Taking Children: A History of American Terror On August 14, 2020, a US government watchdog agency found that the top two leaders of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were unlawfully serving in their roles. President Trump, afraid that Chad Wolf and Ke...

Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s xenophobic, racist, ableist, and patriarchal approach toward non-citizens. By all accounts, he embo...

Why are the lies fascists tell so significant to their political power? Federico Finchelstein, a world-renowned historian and Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, unpacks the answer in his new book A Brief History of Fascist Lies. Finchels...