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Iran’s team faces a hostile reception from the US government and some of its brethren in the diaspora. Yet others hope the event will trump politics — for now.
Modern engineering practices explicitly design concrete to be more resilient to earthquakes, but older buildings predate such practices. That makes them especially vulnerable.
The 75-year-old pop star is part of a generation of Iranians in the diaspora who are watching, with bated breath, as their compatriots seek to topple the Islamic Republic.
When cities burn, plastics, electronics, cleaning chemicals and much more create a toxic brew. Studies launched during the LA fires a year ago show exposure is often strongest inside homes.
Critics of environmental protection laws may have forgotten how much progress has been made.
Anti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing, but they fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.
By militarizing law enforcement, the US is entering largely uncharted waters, but it’s familiar territory for Chile and Argentina, where established democracies broke down in the 1970s.
A former FBI agent-turned-scholar says using National Guard troops to reduce crime in cities such as Chicago and Baltimore would violate legal prohibitions against domestic military law enforcement.
Democrats are pushing back against Trump by testing out some new tactics.
More than one year after the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, a geographer who researches homelessness finds that the ruling is leading to more places criminalizing homelessness.
After his predecessors failed to diminish the US population of undocumented immigrants, President Trump is attempting to drastically reduce that population via unprecedented tactics.
White Americans, especially older citizens, tend to be more bothered than Black Americans or Latinos by demonstrators waving Mexican flags – and even US flags – during protests.
There are few guardrails in place to prevent a rogue president from misusing the military in domestic civilian affairs as Donald Trump seemingly manufactures false emergencies
During Jim Crow segregation, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial authoritarians.
Protests can serve two opposing purposes. They can represent a mass movement in favor of democracy – and simultaneously serve a nascent dictator in their efforts to undermine democracy.
Donald Trump will celebrate his birthday with a massive military parade, but at the same time is reassessing military defence deals with US allies.
The Trump v California governor battle is likely to cement or undermine long-term public support for one of them. It’s not yet clear which.
Authorities have been using “less lethal” weapons against protesters in Los Angeles, but they can still cause serious injuries and even death.
American troops may be used inside the country, but it is an extraordinary exercise of authority to deploy them domestically, says an expert on the domestic role of the military.
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