Tagged: U.S. Supreme Court

Question for the ages

Are the 2015 Chicago Cubs actually better than the famous 1908 champions?

  • October 8, 2015
With the Chicago Cubs headed to the National League Division Series, the NIU Newsroom posed a question for the ages to Artemus Ward: Are the 2015 Chicago Cubs better than…

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F-bombed

Is our culture really more profane than in the past?

  • September 30, 2015
“In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” —Mark Twain, a Biography A few years back, Jeff Chown was teaching an NIU…

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Road signs at intersection of Religion and Politics

Using My Religion

Politically unified state governments stir constitutional waters, trouble

  • April 22, 2015
With a swipe of his pen in late March, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ignited a national firestorm by signing into law the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Lawmakers believed…

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Photo of a ballot box

Five years later: Citizens United v. FEC

  • January 21, 2015
On Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that political spending is a form of protected speech. Five years later, NIU political science professor Scot Schraufnagel examines the playing…

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