COVID-19 and Filipino Martial Law
I will be responding to “Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus”[1]...
Rollins College
Morality Politics: How “Social Identity Theory” and “Absolute Morality” are Affecting U.S. Democracy
Many of us in the United States rely on our values to guide our everyday decisions, and rightfully so. Our morality is what motivates us to help...
Trump’s COVID Crisis: A Response to “Trump’s Authoritarian Tendencies and its Relation to Covid-19”
It is no secret that the President is currently and has been exercising his power with increasingly less resistance as his administration has...
Democratic Erosion in the Supreme Court Following COVID-19
COVID-19 has highlighted many problems in global governmental systems ever since its initial outbreak in late 2019. However, after reading the...
The Internet’s Involvement with Politics
On April 19th, 2020, rioters took the streets of state capitals to protest against the state closures due to the novel virus SARS-CoV-2. The...
How President Trump’s response to the stay at home order protestors reflects his political ideology.
With the coronavirus pandemic, many states have postponed their primaries election, and of course, the president of the country has been under a...
A Positive American Identity Politics
In November of 2019, David Leonhardt of the New York Times wrote an article called The Left’s Identity Problem. In it, he discusses the...
Fake News, Social Identities, and Political Responsibility by Hallie Walker
Fake news as a political influence is not a recent development, but partisan differences strengthening in United States democracy paired with...
Off With His Head! – How Viktor Orban’s new powers lynched Hungarian democracy in one fell swoop.
The COVID-19 pandemic has bulldozed its way through even the most powerful nations leaving countless millions unemployed and healthcare systems...