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How the study of Latinx politics in America has evolved
NADIA E. BROWN AND ROBERTO CARLOS
As the 2026 Hispanic Heritage Month draws to a close, Good Authority editor Nadia E. Brown caught up with Roberto Carlos, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of...
5 big questions about prediction markets and gambling
ERIN LOCKWOOD
Prediction markets are in the headlines this week. The NFL wants the Supreme Court to give states greater control over these popular platforms and treat sports betting practices as gambling. Trading volumescontinue to rise ra...
The Make Ice Pay Act, explained
GENEVA COLE
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) recently cosponsored the Make ICE Pay Act, a bill that would shift $140 billion in federal funding to communities impacted by named Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations during the secon...
Will these Black women gubernatorial candidates make history?
NADIA E. BROWN
Only three Black Americans have been elected governor in America’s first 250 years. They are all Democrats: L. Douglas Wilder in Virginia, Deval Patrick in Massachusetts, and Wes Moore in Maryland.
This year, voters have op...
The Kremlin had to work hard to fake a landslide
MAXIM ALYUKOV
On Sept. 20, Russia’s Central Election Commission announced that United Russia (UR), Russia’s main pro-regime party and the party of President Vladimir Putin, had won 58.21% of the vote in the 2026 State Duma elections — its...
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