FiveThirtyEight US Senate Forecast, updated Tuesday September 20, 2022, 8:49 am EST In my intro American politics class, I always teach during the fall election cycle, so that I can engage the students in US politics by following the most competitive US Senate...
World Peace, by GDJ, via OpenClipArt According to the IPCC (the UN’s scientific panel on climate change), “the time for action is now” if we want to have any chance to prevent global warming above the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold. Yet the only way to halt continued...
Front cover image, 2018 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Special Report What is political science? What do political scientists study? And why does political science matter for solving climate change? This blog is for everyone who may have shrugged and...
Photo of the stone plaque in Independence National Historical Park by Ed Uthman, Flickr The First Amendment of the US Constitution gives us five crucially important freedoms: freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and of petition. While...
The horrific and terrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022, where 19 children and 2 teachers were murdered in their elementary school classroom by a gunman with a semi-automatic rifle, was the second deadliest school shooting on record in the US (second only...
