By Paul Musgrave - March 28

The conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on his investigation of President Trump last weekend came as an anticlimax. Attorney General William P. Barr’s summary makes plain that while the report does not conclude that the president committed crimes, it does not exonerate him, either. Yet after month upon month of anticipation, the investigation had become so freighted that the non-release of a non-exoneration led the New York Times to headline its analysis, “A Cloud Over Trump’s Presidency Is Lifted,” while The Washington Post reported that Hill Democrats were giving up on impeachment for now. 

Appearance may be more important than actual age in voters’ decisions about supporting older candidates, says Raymond La Raja, political science. 

Elizabeth A. Sharrow, political science, is co-author of an opinion piece in The Washington Post about the importance of intersectionality and the need to support both women and African Americans in cases such as the allegation of sexual assault by Vanessa Tyson against Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax. 

Scott Blinder, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science UMass Amherst recently co-authored a research article that examines public support for a key contested multicultural policy in contemporary Europe: the provision of religious schools. It makes two main contributions, one substantive and one theoretical. Substantively, the main contribution is to provide new experimental evidence demonstrating the existence of discrimination against Muslims on a central issue of multicultural social policy.