Photo from Freedom House's Freedom in the World 2019 Report Civic Engagement On October 8th, I attended the webinar “Authoritarianism and Democratic Decline” hosted by Freedom House. The …
Suffolk Votes: A Mission To Increase Voter Turnout
Can young voters change their low turnout history in the 2020 Presidential Election? As a child, my mother always made a point to drag me along with her to all elections, big or small. She tried …
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Voting and Electoral Manipulation
Civic Engagement For my civic engagement I joined a virtual roundtable on voting and electoral manipulation. I learned many insightful things about the state of our Democracy that I had not …
Pre-Existing Condition: Scars from Apartheid Keep a Young Democracy Down
Just because a new government 'checks all the boxes' of a democracy doesn’t mean it’s going to run smoothly. The conditions under which a democratic society is born have lasting impacts on the …
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Germany: Does Political Extremism Hurt Its Democracy?
According to The Democracy Index is an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Germany qualifies as a country with full democracy, which means that “civil liberties and fundamental …
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Jo Jorgensen and Howie Hawkins: Why You Should Think About Voting for 2020’s Third Party Candidates
Only one U.S. president has won his election without being aligned with one of the two major political parties. His name was George Washington. All presidents after him, whether they were Federalist, …
