Society, Law & Politics
- An analysis by 91¸£ÀûÉç linguist Chase Raymond and others has found that U.S. Senate chairpersons can add bias to hearings through how much they speak during hearings.
- Shifting political sands: What we can learn from swing states, history and a diverse candidate fieldWhat do changing demographics look like for swing states in 2020? How about candidate demographics? We’ll take a look at that, and a look back at the history of impeachment, in this episode of the Brainwaves podcast.
- U.S. foreign policy professionals should pay more attention to income inequality and rising costs for housing and childcare in states like Colorado, according to a new Carnegie Endowment for International Peace report prepared in part by the Leeds School of Business.
- You can expect sports betting to become legal and taxable in Colorado, but the jury is still out on a push at the ballot box this week to overturn the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) Amendment, according to this year's Colorado Political Climate Survey.
- Government speech—the term elicits concerns of the government regulating our expression, but what about the constitutional issues raised when the government itself is doing the talking?
- More than 700,000 citizenship applications backlogged as application wait times double, report findsPeople applying for U.S. citizenship have seen application wait times double since 2016, according to a new report prepared in part by University of Colorado Law School faculty and students.
- On this episode of the Brainwaves podcast, what were some of the long-term impacts of Nixon's resignation, did America ever truly heal, and given the state of politics, could Congress ever carry out impeachment in a bipartisan way ever again?
- The Korey Wise Innocence Project at Colorado Law has seen a dramatic uptick in international attention since the May 31 release of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix docuseries "When They See Us," based on the wrongful convictions of five teenagers who became known as the "Central Park Five."
- In this week’s Brainwaves podcast, we look at the new rules for how the Democratic nominee is chosen, concerns about Russian interference and fake news.
- With 19 candidates already in the running, Joe Biden officially entering the race and new Democratic Party rules in place, we asked Professor Ken Bickers for his take on the 2020 campaign.