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Centre for the Study of the United States in the media

CSUS experts are helping to shape conversations about the United States and its role in the world. Read some of the latest coverage below.

For faculty and researchers: if you would like to see your work featured here, please contact us at csus@utoronto.ca to have your latest publications added to this page.

Border Criminologies

From the Field: Learning Under Surveillance. An Encounter with American Border Authoritarianism

September 22, 2025

The Conversation

Juggling dynamite? At 100 days in office, Donald Trump is no Franklin D. Roosevelt

April 29, 2025

Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut

Rick Halpern on Haymarket Originals: Fragile Juggernaut

June 7, 2024

Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO

Rick Halpern on Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO Podcast

April 11, 2024

The Conversation

Ron Pruessen for The Conversation: Chinese Balloon Saga Is Part Of A Long History of U.S.-China Tensions

February 21, 2023

CBC

Nic Sammond on CBC's Stay Tooned: The Rainbow Wave

December 12, 2022

New Books Network

Mark Solovey on New Books Network Podcast: Social Science for What? (Part 2 of 2)

August 17, 2022

New Books Network

Mark Solovey on New Books Network Podcast: Social Science for What? (Part 1 of 2)

August 17, 2022

BBC Culture

Nicholas Sammond in BBC Culture: Space Jam 2: Has Hollywood animation woken up to racism?

July 15, 2021

The Conversation

Ronald Pruessen for The Conversation: 20/20 vision needed in 2020: How this U.S. election compares to other tumultuous votes

October 19, 2020

TVO Today

Rob Vipond on TVO Today: Republican: Grand Old Party In The U.S.A.

October 8, 2020

CBC

Sam Tanenhaus on CBC News: Teaching Trump in university

November 6, 2018

Time Magazine

Sam Tanenhaus for Time Magazine: How Trumpism Will Outlast Trump

October 11, 2018

The Globe and Mail

Sam Tanenhaus in The Globe and Mail: New course at University of Toronto studies Trump’s presidency as it happens

October 5, 2018

City News

Alexandra Rahr in City News: People frequently impacted by natural disasters react differently to evacuation orders: expert

September 14, 2018

The New York Times

Jooyoung Lee for The New York Times: Does Canada Need Better Gun Control?

July 31, 2018

CBC News

Jooyoung Lee on CBC News: What's behind Toronto's surge in gun violence?

July 3, 2018

CBC News

Jooyoung Lee in CBC News: Questions swirl around Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg's death

July 2, 2018

University of Toronto News

Jooyoung Lee in University Toronto News: U of T summer course explores contributing factors to mass shootings

May 16, 2018

TVO Today

Jooyoung Lee on TVO Today: When Mayhem Comes to Town

April 26, 2018

TVO Today

Jooyoung Lee on TVO Today: Gun Violence: A Public Health Issue?

April 10, 2018

London School of Economics Phelan US Centre

Ronald Pruessen for the London School of Economics: In allowing ourselves to focus on Trump’s excesses, we ignore the long historic roots of America’s problems

March 22, 2018

University of Toronto News

Jooyoung Lee and Peter Loewen in U of T News: What's behind the shootings in Dallas, Minnesota, Louisiana: U of T experts

July 8, 2016

CBC News

Peter Loewen in CBC News: Hundreds more aboriginal voters in northeastern Ontario voted in federal election

March 14, 2016