Aidan Calvelli - Democratic Erosion

Student Activism Today Is Aimed More at Policy Than Democracy. By Aidan Calvelli @ Brown University

From the Vietnam War protests on campuses to the Sudanese divestment campaign (that Brown students like Scott Warren helped lead), students have long spoke out on political issues. Just last year,...

How Experts and the Public See Democracy Differently. By Aidan Calvelli @ Brown University

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In February 2017, a group of political scientists founded Bright Line Watch, a group focused on surveying experts and the public to assess their perceptions of the state of American democracy. The...

No, Robert Reich, the Future Doesn’t Have to Be Populist. By Aidan Calvelli @ Brown University

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The rise and election of Donald Trump left many Democrats reeling, searching for a way to understand the current political moment. To Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton...