by Rachel M. Davis · Published January 28, 2026 by Rachel Marie Davis Introduction Following the 2024 electoral loss of Kamala Harris to Donald Trump, the question “so, what... by Rogier Platter · Published December 17, 2025 · Last modified…
Published December 17, 2025 · Updated December 18, 2025 American democracy has been fragile and contested since its inception. Abraham Lincoln’s “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has often more accurately turned out
Published November 5, 2025 · Updated November 4, 2025 The American university is in a state of perpetual, managed crisis. For decades, the logic of neoliberalism has subjected it to the slow violence of budget cuts, privatization, and the t…
Published October 24, 2025 · Updated October 24, 2025 Since 2016, Donald Trump has been the dominant force in American politics. His style of politics and ideology enabled American far-right ideas to gain more influence in the political mai…
Published August 6, 2025 · Updated August 7, 2025 States have been a key actor in promoting research and development (R&D) and National Innovation Systems (NIS), which are an ensemble of elements and multiple actors that produce, diffuse, a…
“Sexual assault allegations seem to be a badge of honor in Trump’s America” proclaimed journalist Carter Sherman in an article published by The Guardian on March 30, 2025. This statement reflects a growing concern among commentators and new…
Published June 4, 2025 · Updated June 4, 2025 In November 1922, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the addition “of a wing to be devoted entirely to American art of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Early Republican periods” (Robinson
Published May 21, 2025 · Updated June 3, 2025 Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! is a unique novel that employs environmental language prevalent in American Literature of the 19th and early 20th century. Though O Pioneers! is set on the Divide in N…
Published June 19, 2024 · Updated June 20, 2024 The American Revolution is regarded as one of the most critical events in the history of the United States, culturally and politically (Greene 2000: 92-93). Until today, books, movies, and in
Published May 11, 2022 · Updated May 10, 2022 To begin, let us look towards the stars. Culturally, the firmament has always held a fascination for writers and audiences, not just in a mystical sense, but also as a place which exists and whi…
Published December 15, 2021 · Updated December 16, 2021 In December 2017, Time magazine named “The Silence Breakers” as Person of the Year. It was the first time the magazine honored a group instead of just one person with the title. The ma…
Published May 12, 2021 · Updated May 12, 2021 by Hanna Thiele and Christine Hassemer “We’re talking about national security and America leading the world in a clean energy future.” With these words, President Biden sought to catapult climat…