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As Biden considers a Black woman for Supreme Court, there’s no shortage of Yale...

The North American moon-eyed people are legendary to the Cherokee people, but also connected through evidence to medieval Welsh explorers or stone-age white men.

What started out as an ambitious plan to globalize itself is now slipping further out of reach for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Advertisement Trans-Pacific View author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy.  This conversation with Dr. Benjamin Barton, assistant professor in the School of Politics, History and International Relations at the University of Nottingham Malaysia, is the 272nd in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.” Explain China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the context ...

App State Wrestling Nabs Five Individual Conference Champions Cody Bond won at 157 pounds. photo courtesy of Appalachian State Athletics App State Wrestling Nabs Five Individual Conference Champions March 1, 2021 Before he had an opportunity to embrace double-overtime winner Cody Bond, teary-eyed App State Wrestling coach JohnMark Bentley jumped high into the air to celebrate an individual conference title that was as dramatic as it was unlikely. The Mountaineers put on a crowd-stirring show to...

presidential election? >> well, they did have to take the health care case. the lower courts had disagreed. they didnt have to give three days of oral argument and examine every single argument before the election. >> did they have to take it before election? >> yeah, because it was right. >> theres a problem that you identify, its exacerbated in the state court setting where some 37 states still engage in contested election of their judges. its ironic because the election of judges wa...

convincing. there is a problem. but here is another problem. when people are judging what they think of the courts, and thats the politicization, the process. i will tell you now if, for whatever reason, president obama has the opportunity to appoint somebody else as his nominee for the supreme court that before the appointment is made, before we know who its going to be, all the democrats will be for it and all the republicans will be against. and then if mitt romney wins, you have a ...