The recent shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso has been depicted as a tragedy for local people, reigniting well-practiced debates about gun control, video games, mental health, and “lone wolf” extremism. But this framing not only underplays the impacts on connected communities like Ciudad Juárez across the border, it also fails to acknowledge this massacre’s place […]
We’d like to thank all of our readers for reading LSE USAPP in 2018, our fifth full year of publishing commentary on US politics and policy. We’ve had more than 336,000 visitor sessions this year!
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In 2018, we published more than 350 articles covering the entire range of United States politics, policy, and society. Here’s a count-down of the ten most popular articles we published this year.
10. Why “sex” may not be the best way to understand the gender gap in political behavior (1,489 pageviews)
Election coverage often refers to a “gender gap”, meaning different vote choices […]
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The demands of radical decarbonisation clash with the imperatives of profit and shareholder value, write Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg.
Climate change is now the ever-present reality of human experience. Late last year we witnessed a procession of huge hurricanes batter the US and Caribbean, the largest wildfires on record burn through California, and in Australia, despite the death of […]
We’d like to thank all of our readers for reading LSE USAPP in 2017, our fourth full year of publishing commentary on US politics and policy. We’ve had 278,000 visitor sessions this year!
Over 4,000 of you now follow us on Twitter (but there’s always room for more!) and we have nearly 1,000. Facebook ‘likes’. Many have signed up to receive one of […]
We’d like to wish our readers all the best for the festive season, and we look forward to bringing you even more analysis and commentary on American politics, economics, culture, and society in 2017!
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The inevitable human complexities of history should not be seen as skeletons in our collective closet. They bring us closer to a real understanding of how we became the people and peoples that we are today, writes Gregorio Alonso.
All nations draw legitimacy and status from invented traditions, and Latin American republics are no exception. For over a decade, a host of conferences, […]
Here at the LSE blogs, we’re always eager to follow up on our published posts and track the impacts that they have; whether this is mainstream media coverage, inclusion on a university course reading list, references in grey literature or in policy documentation. Much of this can be captured by link-tracking but there are inevitably cases we can’t pick […]
How Black fraternities are actually harmful to Black culture in the US
How social media is changing the way people commit crimes and police fight them.
Political parties shape public opinion, but their influence is limited.
How party polarization makes the legislative process even slower when government is divided.
Thomas Furse reviews The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power by Megan Black 
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