Cole Pillar

Transactional Politics: The Case for Getting Stuff Done

The 116th Congress has passed just 193 bills into law. While Congress still has a few months left in its current term, these numbers pale in comparison to the numbers of the past. Congress has...

The Fourth Estate: Democracy, Journalism, and the Social Media Age

University of Chicago

According to James Carey, "without journalism there is no democracy, but without democracy there is no journalism either.” In other words, the ability of journalism to inform citizens of a...