Society, Law & Politics
- The first comprehensive analysis of recent book bans in the U.S. reveals that characters and authors of color are more likely to be targeted by book bans than their white counterparts.
- America鈥檚 national parks have a fraught history, being created in聽part to dispossess Native peoples of their homelands, says Brooke Neely. Her new book explores pathways to uphold Native sovereignty at these sites.聽
- Social demographer Amanda Stevenson offers her take on how the Dobbs decision has impacted people seeking abortion care and changed attitudes about sex and pregnancy.
- Ashleigh Lawrence Sanders, a professor of African American history, shares insights on the significance of Juneteenth and how celebrations and observances have evolved since its recognition as a national holiday.
- In his upcoming book, 鈥淗oof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History,鈥 William Taylor writes that today鈥檚 world has been molded by humans鈥 relationship to horses.
- A CU 麻豆影院 doctoral student examined how an unconventional social media campaign worked in 2020 to make Joe Biden more appealing鈥攐r at least less unappealing鈥攖o progressive voters.
- In the 1970s, Denver became the first and only city to be named an Olympics host, then later back out. A new study shows that Colorado鈥檚 feelings about the Games remain complicated today.
- On June 2, Mexico鈥檚 election day, a woman will almost certainly win the presidential election. However, CU 麻豆影院 scholar Lorraine Bayard de Volo notes that electing a female president may not guarantee a more feminist mode of governing.
- Gail Nelson, a career intelligence officer and CU 麻豆影院 alumnus, advised Afghan military intelligence leaders after the United States drove the Taliban from power.
- In a new book, CU 麻豆影院 researcher Liam Downey argues that different forms of violence produce both consent to the social order and divisions among subordinate social groups, which help to maintain the power and wealth of economic and political elites.