USC Dornsife News

This is not the first time that, in the last year of a Republican president’s first term, a Republican senator in bad health threatened the party’s narrow majority in the Senate. [4½ min read]

Civil rights lawyer Olu Orange of political science at USC Dornsife wins the reinstatement of an $8 million damages verdict to the family of a Black man killed by sheriff’s deputies in circumstances similar to George Floyd. [6 min read]

Isabella O’Brien turned discarded oyster, clam and mussel shells into a means to deacidify ocean and lake waters. [4 min read]

Lawyer Lindsay Harrison ’00 overturned the Trump administration’s dissolution of DACA in the Supreme Court and aided the legal battle against the government’s order prohibiting international students from remaining in the country for online classes. [5 min read]

The Democratic presidential primary heats up on March 3, when voters decide which candidates will be allotted more than a third of the party’s delegates. [2¾ min read]

Experts, pundits and Republican presidential candidate Mark Sanford discuss America’s worsening political tribalism and the science behind it at a conference hosted by the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. [5 min read]

Attorney and civil rights advocate Olu Orange leads students enrolled in his Trial Advocacy Program at USC Dornsife to South Texas to help train immigration lawyers representing unaccompanied minors seized at the border. <6 min read>

“The Dis-United States of America” event on Sept. 27 includes panel discussions with leading figures from journalism, politics and academe, hosted by USC Dornsife’s Center for the Political Future. [1½ min read]

China tries to counter news about the protests with its own state-run media. [5 min read]