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President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2022, among many lawmakers who may want his job. Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images

August 8, 2022

If Biden decides not to run for reelection, he faces a big threat: Being a lame duck

Michael J. Faber, Texas State University

A combination of irrelevancy, powerlessness and derision is in store for a president who chooses not to run for reelection.

Historians believe Muslims first arrived in the U.S. in the 17th century. Julie Jacobson/AP Photo

August 30, 2021

Understanding Islam – a brief introduction to its past and present in the United States

Kalpana Jain, The Conversation

Fewer than half of Americans report knowing someone who is Muslim. Here we explain Islam, its diversity and its long history in the United States.

In this photo from March 29, 1968, striking sanitation workers march to Memphis City Hall, past Tennessee National Guard troops with bayonets. (AP Photo/Charlie Kelly)

June 7, 2020

With Trump in charge, America is going back to more hostile times

Jason Opal, McGill University

In dealing with mass protests of police killings of African Americans, U.S. President Donald Trump is invoking old phrases and laws — first from 1967 and then further back to 1807.

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