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Multi-disciplinary blog covering all aspects of USA governance, economics, politics, culture and society. Also covers Canada and Mexico. Part of the LSE Phelan United States Centre. Read all our articles at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/

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How immigrants use welfare can influence Americans’ view of public welfare as a whole | USAPP Attitudes towards immigration and immigrants’ participation in welfare programs work together to shape Americans’ support for welfare spending

Immigrants' use of welfare can influence Americans’ view of public welfare as a whole find Ping Xu and Erika Danielson of @universityofri.bsky.social and Belinda Davis and James Garand of @lsu.bsky.social

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07.10.2025 09:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why there may be no end in sight for the US government shutdown | USAPP Thomas Gift writes on the state of play on the shutdowns’ sixth day and gives four scenarios of how it might eventually come to an end.

There may be no end in sight for the US government shutdown writes Thomas Gift of @ucl.ac.uk

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06.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI and the workplace with Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa | The Ballpark podcast | USAPP AI now is increasingly playing a role in many parts of our lives, and the workplace is no exception. AI is now being used by employers to help them to recruit new staff and by jobseekers in their appl...

Listen to the latest podcast from The Ballpark: AI and the workplace with Professor @iajunwa.bsky.social of @emorylaw.bsky.social

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06.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 2020 US election shows how state election policies can fuel conspiracy theories about voting | USAPP States that allowed pre-Election Day processing saw a reduction of over a third in expected misinformation compared to states with restrictive rules.

The 2020 US election shows how state election policies can fuel conspiracy theories about voting write @morganwack.bsky.social of @ikmz.bsky.social and @schafer.bsky.social of @uwnews.uw.edu

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06.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Highlighting “being American” no longer brings Democrats and Republicans together | USAPP Recent years have seen increasing dislike and distrust between Democrats and Republicans. Scholars and practitioners have been striving to find solutions to this growing animosity. Among all the attem...

Highlighting “being American” no longer brings Democrats and Republicans together finds @rongbojin.bsky.social of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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03.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Americans are adapting to a warmer world — trading winter heat for summer cooling | USAPP When homes are not good enough to protect against recurrent bad weather, people invest in energy-consuming equipment to improve their comfort.

Americans are adapting to a warmer world — trading winter heat for summer cooling find Francois Cohen of the University of Barcelona, Matthieu Glachant of @psl-univ.bsky.social and Magnus Söderberg of @griffith.edu.au

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03.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The US-led world order is breaking—here’s what history tells us may come next | USAPP The US is undermining the very order it built, and the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit shows how China is seizing the moment.

As the #US undermines the geopolitical order, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit showed #China is offering an alternative.

History indicates the result may not be a new global system, but shifting power & contested rules, writes Terry Mullan @lseir.bsky.social @lseusablog.bsky.social

02.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The 2026 Midterms: The issues that may define next year’s elections | USAPP Five themes that may define the midterms.

What issues may define next year’s elections? Peter Finn of Kingston University covers what we should look out for in the latest in our "2026 Midterms" series

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01.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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30.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Long Read: How a new European ideological patriotism could be a counter for Trumpism | USAPP Europe must step up to counter Trumpism by promoting its model of ordoliberalism and a new form of European patriotism.

A new European ideological patriotism could be a counter for Trumpism writes
@peternedergaard.bsky.social of the University of Copenhagen
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30.09.2025 09:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wind energy has a surprising upside – higher property values | USAPP Home values show a three percent increase after wind farms start to operate

Through his new study, SPA's David Schwegman disproves the misconception that wind farms negatively impact property value. He urges policymakers to study the distribution of costs and benefits as they contemplate energy transition proposals in their community. bit.ly/4mFQZJN
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29.09.2025 14:25 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The 2026 Midterms: California’s Gavin Newsom leads the Democrats’ Trump counterattack with a redistricting ballot measure | USAPP Newsom’s move is the acknowledgement that Democrats can only fight Trump by similarly ignoring institutional norms.

California’s Gavin Newsom leads the Democrats’ Trump counterattack with a redistricting ballot measure writes Jeff Cummins of Fresno State University

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26.09.2025 11:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wind energy has a surprising upside – higher property values | USAPP Home values show a three percent increase after wind farms start to operate

Wind energy has a surprising upside – higher property values find David J. Schwegman of American University, Eric Brunner of @uconn.bsky.social and Ben Hoen of @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

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25.09.2025 09:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The US-led world order is breaking—here’s what history tells us may come next | USAPP The US is undermining the very order it built, and the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit shows how China is seizing the moment.

The US-led world order is breaking—here’s what history tells us may come next, writes Terrence Mullan of @lseir.bsky.social

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24.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Who is liable for AI? With Dr Anat Lior | The Ballpark podcast | USAPP AI has legal consequences. Who is responsible when AI makes a mistake which causes harm or financial loss? What role does government regulation play, and do we need to revise our legal frameworks in t...

Who is liable for AI? With Dr Anat Lior of Drexel University | The Ballpark podcast

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23.09.2025 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The 2026 Midterms: In New Jersey, a new voting law may be loosening the grip of the state’s political machines | USAPP Recent federal lawsuits challenged the county line ballot's constitutionality and have led to a new state law requiring redesigned and fairer primary ballots.

In New Jersey, a new voting law may be loosening the grip of the state’s political machines writes @juliasassrubin.bsky.social of @bloustein.rutgers.edu

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22.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains—it’s powering them | USAPP Growing China-US competition s a product of the two countries’ geopolitical rivalry, one that will likely continue to shape global supply chains.

Geopolitics isn’t killing global supply chains—it’s powering them writes Benjamin Selwyn of @sussex.ac.uk

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19.09.2025 09:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead | USAPP Hostile rhetoric from political elites is combining with the growth of political influencers and often violent associates and feeding a self-reinforcing cycle of political polarization and political v...

Why is political violence on the rise in the United States? Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social of the University of Milan look at the trend and where it might lead

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19.09.2025 09:25 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2
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Donald Trump’s “Department of War” name change is mostly political theatre | USAPP While the implications of the policy remain to be seen, the renaming is symbolic of the continued reduction of America’s soft power capabilities.

In early September, President #Trump issued an executive order directing that the US Department of Defense would again be known as the “Department of War”.

The move is mostly political theatre, writes Jonny Hall @lseir.bsky.social on @lseusablog.bsky.social.

18.09.2025 15:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Donald Trump’s “Department of War” name change is mostly political theatre | USAPP While the implications of the policy remain to be seen, the renaming is symbolic of the continued reduction of America’s soft power capabilities.

Donald Trump’s “Department of War” name change is mostly political theatre writes Jonny Hall of @lseir.bsky.social

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18.09.2025 11:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity by Thomas Gift | USAPP Donald Trump is unique among US presidents in his desire to challenge the law of war.

Read a summary of the new book from Thomas Gift of @ucl.ac.uk, Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity

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18.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thrilled and honoured to have an entry published on @lseusablog.bsky.social where I reflect on politics and pop culture. Enjoy the reading!

16.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The 2026 Midterms: The blurred line has vanished, and politics has become pop culture | USAPP Recent years have seen a blurring of the line between presidential politics and popular culture.

The blurred line has vanished writes @giovannadimauro.bsky.social of Zayed University, and politics has become pop culture blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

15.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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How federal budget politics cost state and local governments billions | USAPP While there was significant take-up of these bonds, federal budget dysfunction has reduced the subsidy level, which cost municipal governments billions.

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10.09.2025 17:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI automation and the workforce with Dr Baobao Zhang | The Ballpark podcast | USAPP With the growth of the capability of artificial intelligence (AI), there is growing concern that this technology could make millions of jobs – and their workers – obsolete. In the third episode of The...

AI automation and the workforce with Dr Baobao Zhang of @maxwellsu.bsky.social - The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

09.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The weakening of the Voting Rights Act is a fundamental threat to multiracial democracy | USAPP Federal enforcement has historically been the only reliable guarantee of Black political representation - and therefore multiracial democracy - in the South.

The weakening of the Voting Rights Act is a fundamental threat to multiracial democracy write @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social of @uofdenver.bsky.social and Jasmine Carrera Smith of George Washington University blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

09.09.2025 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s counter narratives on public health found a home in America’s disconnected communities | USAPP RFK Jr. has used his own position as an institutional outsider to speak to those in often socioeconomically disadvantaged rural communities

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s counter narratives on public health found a home in America’s disconnected communities

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09.09.2025 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Social media firms need to be taken seriously as both tech platforms and as influential political organizations | USAPP From Elon Musk’s brief time at the White House to the “tech bros” given pride of place at Donald Trump’s inauguration, the profile of social media firms in US, and global, politics has become even mor...

Social media firms need to be taken seriously as both tech platforms and as influential political organizations argue Jonathan Fisher of @unibirmingham.bsky.social and Idayat Hassan of @csis.org

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03.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Might unmakes right with Professor Oona Hathaway | The Ballpark podcast | USAPP In an article in the July/August edition of Foreign Affairs magazine, “Might Unmakes Right: The Catastrophic Collapse of Norms Against the Use of Force”, Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro look at the hi...

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Might unmakes right with Professor Oona Hathaway | The Ballpark podcast

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26.08.2025 17:47 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Economic grievances are driving support for redrawing state borders in the Pacific Northwest | USAPP In recent years, several counties in eastern Oregon have voted to join the neighboring state of Idaho. Semir Dzebo describes a new study he conducted with Erin K. Jenne and Levente Littvay based on su...

Economic grievances are driving support for redrawing state borders in the Pacific Northwest

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01.09.2025 15:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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