Society, Law & Politics
- Since announcing her bid to run for president on July 21, Vice President Kamala Harris has generated praise and drawn questions about her electability—including from some media outlets and online commentators who have asked: “Is the United States ready to elect a multiracial woman?”
- A democratic bill seeks to reverse last month’s ruling that curbed federal agencies’ power.
- As the 2024 Olympics begin in Paris, CU Boulder scholar Jared Bahir Browsh considers how nationalism can inform and influence the games.
- With the 2024 Olympics set to open, a CU Boulder professor ponders Americans’ long love affair with the City of Light.
- After a human case of bubonic plague was recently confirmed in Pueblo County, CU Boulder scholar Thora Brylowe explores why it and all plagues inspire such terror.
- Colorado Law professor Doug Spencer gives his take on Biden's decision to exit the race, the impacts on the president's legacy and the work ahead for Vice President Kamala Harris.
- Assistant Professor Ross Taylor discusses an Associated Press photo, taken by Evan Vucci, in the moments after Donald Trump was shot—and what about its composition makes the image stand out.
- In a new rom-com, Scarlett Johansson plays a PR maven hired to film a fake version of the moon landing. Media scholar Rick Stevens gives his take on why conspiracy theories around the moon landing have such staying power.
- Caught up in anti-communist hysteria following World War II, former student Dalton Trumbo today is recognized as a fierce proponent of free speech. CU’s Bronson Hilliard discusses why Trumbo’s legacy remains important today.
- Beginning Aug. 1, LGBTQ+ students across the United States are poised to earn unprecedented federal protection from discrimination under a proposed overhaul of Title IX. CU Boulder Today got researcher Chelsea Kilimnik's take on how the new rules, and the fierce pushback against them, could impact students' mental health.