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 the less fortunate, to always tell the truth, and to …
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 pushed forward through scandals and crises. Despite this, …
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 New York Times Article “Supreme Court Blocks Extended …
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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 infectious disease has caused a nationwide lockdown for …
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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 lot of pressure with the given situation. It is …
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 (accurate) forecast of the UK’s Labour Party losing their …
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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 increasing distribution through online media outlets has …
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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 around the world bursting at the seams. However, to a …