The 2025 Presidential Transition Project, launched last year by The Heritage Foundation, aims to prepare for a conservative administration in January 2025. More commonly known as Project 2025, it focuses...
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling on June 28 allowing governments to prohibit and fine people experiencing homelessness from camping and sleeping on public property.
The case, Grants Pass v....
The Biden Administration announced new protections on June 18 for undocumented immigrants and their families.
The policy would permit non-citizens who have resided in the U.S. for a minimum of...
Mifepristone, a commonly used abortion-inducing medication, will continue to be available without additional restrictions after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected a challenge to its approval by...
Matthew Gomez, General News Reporter
• June 10, 2024
Two UT professors joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against President Joe Biden and his administration last month over the expansion of Title IX protections.
The education department...
Three professors discussed the relationship between sociology, violence and police organizations at an April 15 panel.
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, an assistant professor of sociology at UT and the author...
Melanie Faz, General News Reporter
• March 22, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration issued a nationwide challenge for better opioid overdose prevention efforts on March 13 and highlighted UT’s Operation Naloxone as an organization tackling the opioid...
The United States Supreme Court temporarily blocked a state law allowing police to prosecute and arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from going into effect on Monday.
The...
Congressman Greg Casar introduced a bill this February that would connect the Texas power grid to the rest of the country.
The Connect the Grid Act, which Casar said is co-sponsored by most of the Texas...
Dozens of guests filled the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on Feb. 6. to attend the first installment of the 2024 NATO Washington Summit Campaign put on by the Transatlantic Security Initiative to examine...
Maryam Ahmed, Senior News Reporter
• January 30, 2024
In the 100 days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza, Arab, Muslim and Jewish students said the ongoing conflict has taken a toll on their mental health, exacerbated...
Olivia Dilley, General News Reporter
• November 29, 2023
A recent poll found more Texans felt the country was headed in the wrong direction, according to the Texas Politics Project, a unit of the College of Liberal Arts at the University.
Of those surveyed,...
