By claiming unprecedented executive privilege in battles with Congress, the White House has roiled political waters, forcing Democrats and Republicans to weigh near-term political consequences of their response against a long-term threat to constitutional powers of Congress, suggests a congressional expert from Washington University in St. Louis.
The national Food Stamp and School Lunch programs are vital to alleviating food insecurity in rural America where residents rely on the programs more than their urban neighbors, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
A University of Arkansas historian examines post-Reconstruction Texas and how the constitution and policies of "˜Redeemer' Democrats affect the state even today.
To help government agencies deal with rule-making in the Internet age and make the process more accessible to the public, Cornell scientists and legal experts have created the Cornell e-Rulemaking Initiative.
Policymakers across the country are pushing for implementation of faith-based prisoner reentry programming to reduce recidivism levels, but so far studies by proponents and practitioners of such programs haven't produced much hard evidence that they actually work, according to an extensive review led by a Florida State University researcher in Tallahassee, Fla. and funded in part by the National Institute of Justice.
In his new book, M'Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation, the author, Mark Killenbeck, a University of Arkansas School of Law professor, explains why the Supreme Court's controversial decision in the landmark 1819 case defined the nature and scope of federal authority and its relationship to the states.
President George W. Bush has announced his nomination of Timothy Shanahan, professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board.
Every year about 5,000 people die in the United States because there are too few organ donors. Unlike in some countries, where people are considered donors unless they request not to be, American policymakers have established "not being an organ donor" as the default and relatively few people go to the trouble of switching.
A new study by Spelman College reveals women's opinions on the leadership of the president and Condoleezza Rice.
A new book by an award-winning historian and biographer at the University of Illinois at Chicago provides the first comprehensive narrative history of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Conservation Security Program (CSP)"“a green payment system that pays farmers for good land stewardship"“is up for congressional reauthorization and reconfiguration in the 2007 farm bill. A new report explores whether CSP works in New England and makes recommendations for program reforms.
Congressional hearings following tragedies like Hurricane Katrina rarely result in new legislation, said UAB political scientist Holly Brasher, Ph.D.
At the White House Conference on Aging, advocates gather to tackle the urgent needs of America's seniors including long term care, disaster preparedness, heath care decision making and aging in place. Topics include Medicaid, Medicare, living wills and the impact on seniors from recent Hurricanes.
President Bush's speech December 12 in Philadelphia: Comparing our nation's birth with Iraq's doesn't compute, says Founding Father expert Willard Sterne Randall, historical scholar in residence at Champlain College.
With the U.S. military reporting a successful sea-based missile defense test off Hawaii, Dr. S.N. Balakrishnan, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, can offer an expert insight into how ballistic missiles work.
If the 2008 presidential election were held today, Republican Rudy Giuliani would beat Democrat Hillary Clinton according to a nationwide poll. Of the 455 respondents who volunteered an answer regarding the 2008 match-up, Giuliani received 54 percent of the vote to Clinton's 38 percent.
Preserving the environment will happen only when more policy decisions come from average citizens instead of just being left to government leaders, says a Purdue University environmental policy expert.
No one wants to be sued, but now educators who find themselves in that situation have a resource guide to help them be better prepared.
The recent indictment of a top White House aide is feeding President George W. Bush's second-term blues that many recent re-elected presidents face, but the long-term implications are still unclear, says a Purdue University presidential expert.
The debate over former Supreme Court nominee Harriett Miers' religious beliefs has focused attention once again to questions concerning the role of religion in American politics.
The evolution of genocide as an international crime and the erosion of sovereign immunity as a defense to prosecution are the heart of the latest book by Michael J. Kelly, a professor of international law at Creighton University School of Law.
Nixon, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush were all plagued by rocky second terms. Bush's approval ratings have fallen in the wake of rising gas prices and the war in Iraq.
As Americans turn a cold shoulder to politics and civic involvement, a group of 19 leading political scientists - including the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Katherine Cramer Walsh - have recommended a package of reforms to improve democracy and heighten civic involvement.
Recent anti-war demonstrations have brought American society back to the visible protest era of the 1960s, according to Alexander Bloom, history scholar at Wheaton College.
As the nation marks the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (Saturday, Aug. 6), the original intent of the ground-breaking law faces serious challenges in the courts, congress and at polling places, says University of Maryland political scientist.
Given the flurry of new voting requirements in Georgia, Indiana, Ohio and other states, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 still resonates today with its federal protection of voters, says Devin Fergus, an expert on African-American political history.
Constitutional battles over civil liberties could intensify at the state level -- continuing a more than two-decade-long trend -- if the Supreme Court becomes more conservative under President Bush, according to University at Buffalo Law Professor James A. Gardner.
"As the United Nations observes World Refugee Day on June 20, possibly the biggest concern facing refugees around the globe is the practice of warehousing -- confining persons displaced from their home countries in camps or segregated settlements," says Judith Owens-Manley, co-author of Bosnian Refugees in America: New communities, new cultures.
Trial tactics that defy common sense are just one reason millions of Americans are drawn to the many law-related shows on television, says a Purdue University psychologist who studies persuasion in the courtroom.
Alice Herb, an attorney, medical ethicist, and faculty member in the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College, offers several guidelines to keep ethics and the law in line as Congress examines end-of-life healthcare issues after the Terri Schiavo case.
Laws and public policy will often miss their mark until they incorporate an understanding of why, biologically, humans behave as they do, scholars from Vanderbilt and Yale universities argue in the March issue of Columbia Law Review.
Since 9/11, U.S. government efforts to keep sensitive but unclassified materials out of the hands of terrorists have led to tangled regulations that too often bottle up needed information without providing adequate security, says a new report from the University of Maryland.
The Bush Administration has received a "C" on this year's second annual Presidential Human Rights Performance Report Card issued by the Center on Democratic Performance (CDP) at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
The U.S. government should take action to strengthen democracy by educating the public to be better citizens, argues Vanderbilt University philosopher Robert Talisse in his new book.
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