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Brian Duignan
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
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Brian Duignan is a senior editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. His subject areas include philosophy, law, social science, politics, political theory, and religion.

 

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On the campaign trail
United States presidential election of 2024
United States presidential election of 2024, American election, held on November 5, 2024, in which former Republican president Donald Trump (2017–21) defeated the Democratic nominee, Vice Pres. Kamala Harris. Trump, who lost his bid for reelection in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden, is the first U.S.…
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Donald Trump
identity politics
gender continuum
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community
Immanuel Kant
Ayn Rand
No Child Left Behind
Abhijit Banerjee
Judith Butler
Jeremy Bentham
Robert Nozick
Venn diagram
Jack Smith
Shelby County v. Holder
waterboarding
Epicureanism
Sarah McBride
Seventeenth Amendment
Trolley problem
Democritus
dot-com bubble
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
gerrymandering
Brown v. Board of Education
Enlightenment
insurrection
empiricism
social justice
McDonald v. City of Chicago
sexual abuse
District of Columbia v. Heller
utilitarianism
Dunning-Kruger effect
Occam’s razor
postmodernism
Plessy v. Ferguson
gaslighting
Loving v. Virginia
Major Supreme Court Cases from the 2024–25 Term
James A. Robinson
Simon Johnson
Daron Acemoglu
eudaimonia
Great Vowel Shift
John Rawls
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee
Peter Singer
William Mulholland
USA PATRIOT Act
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Joshua Angrist
Guido Imbens
voting rights
Charles and David Koch
paleoconservatism
mass media
Joe Biden
George W. Bush
Project 2025
January 6 U.S. Capitol attack
replacement theory
Steve Irwin
Esther Duflo
Major Supreme Court Cases from the 2023–24 Term
financial crisis of 2007–08
initial public offering
Willard Van Orman Quine
Rasul v. Bush
Affordable Care Act cases
Great Recession
Department of Commerce v. New York
Hollingsworth v. Perry
United States v. Windsor
National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning
King v. Burwell
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin
Mapp v. Ohio
Raj Rajaratnam
Bernard Williams
Richard Rorty
Cornel West
William Nordhaus
Philip Dybvig
Rudolf Carnap
Claudia Goldin
Robert B. Wilson
Douglas Diamond
Tucker Carlson
Lina Khan
Martha Nussbaum
Paul Milgrom
Michael Kremer
Richard Thaler
chief executive officer
Paul Romer
Bengt Holmström
Oliver Hart
Robert J. Shiller
Anna Netrebko
Christopher A. Sims
Thomas J. Sargent
Derek Parfit
Jacques Rancière
venture capital
John Venn
Neil Gorsuch
Irving Kristol
Anders Rasmussen
Donald Davidson
Saul Kripke
George Berkeley
United States v. Stevens
Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition
government shutdown
Trump v. Anderson
militia movement
Johannes Althusius
Bollinger decisions
David Card
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Roe v. Wade: At a Glance
debt ceiling
Gill v. Whitford
qualia
utterance
major Supreme Court cases from the end of the 2022–23 term
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
Moore v. Harper
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Harris v. Quinn
Respect for Marriage Act
child pornography
voter ID law
protofascism
American Legislative Exchange Council
Defense Production Act
shadow docket
Ukraine scandal
partisanship
consumerism
voter suppression
Federalist Society
total cost
objectivism
problem of induction
speciesism