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posted on by Molly Portwood
University of Chicago Tagged With: fake news, freedom of the press, media, Trump, United States of America
In 2016, American trust of mass media was at an all-time low. Gallup found that of 1,020 adult Americans surveyed, 32% reported having a “great deal/fair amount” of trust in the media. When sorted by …
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posted on by Cole Pillar
University of Chicago Tagged With: democracy, facebook, journalism, new york times, social media, United States of America
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 democracy, …
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posted on by Tucker Rivera
University of Chicago Tagged With: 2016, 2020, Barrett, courts, demagogue, Democratic Erosion, Merrick Garland, packing, Senate, Trump
Right wing, conservative senators are gatekeeping the Supreme Court, in a way that they failed to during the political rise of President Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential primaries. [1] Focused …
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posted on by Oscar Sarkes
University of Chicago Tagged With: anti-corruption, Mutual Tolerance, Navalny, Russia, Surveillance
At the end of August, while returning from campaigning for local elections in the Siberian city of Tomsk, Russian opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny fell violently ill. …
posted on by Hazel Martello
University of Chicago Tagged With: democracy, democratic norms, partisanship, political polarization
The 25th amendment, allows for a sitting President’s powers to be suspended if they become unfit for office. Section 4, which can suspend Presidential power without the sitting President’s consent, …
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posted on by Niko Rodriguez
University of Chicago Tagged With: Judicial Reform, partisanship, Supreme Court, United States, United States of America
It is clear that increasing partisanship correlates with democratic erosion. Matthew Graham and Milan Svolik, in a candidate-choice experiment, found that US voters who identified with a certain party …
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