While much remains uncertain, the rise of Zohran Mamdani illustrates the central role social media now plays in political campaigns. Capable of turning political outsiders into policymakers, social media shifts politicians’ interests toward the masses.
While the system of cash bail may be designed with good intentions, it is, in reality, little more than a “pay to play” scheme that allows individuals to trade money for freedom as they await their trial and verdict.
As the line between legal authority and political will blurs with each new confrontation, federalism remains a simultaneously central and unresolved force in American life.
The departure of California from the United States may seem implausible. However, a growing number of residents say they would vote for the state to become a nation independent of the United States.
ICE impersonators are not a bug in the system; they are a feature, an entirely predictable consequence of the Trump administration’s attempt to create a violent division between native-born Americans and immigrants of any sort.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Brown University—and of mass shootings across the United States—media coverage choices influence public health consequences.
