A Cause To Celebrate?
This past week, The United States underwent one of the most tense elections in our history. The probability of violence with the victory of...
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The Mansfield Blue Wave
Democracy is at its most fragile during times of war, terrorism, and elections. The United States just happens to be at a crossroads of all...
Misperception Is Reality: The Psychology of Political Polarization in the United States
Americans are not as polarized as we think we are. A new report from Beyond Conflict, a non-profit that leverages research from cognitive and...
BLM Insight from Co-Founder Opal Tometi: How A Hashtag Led To A Worldwide Race Movement
One of the brains behind the Black Lives Matter movement and Human rights activist Opal Tometi was invited by NYU for a webinar hosted by...
Social-Political Distance: Problematic Partisanship in Remote Campaigns
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated weaknesses present in democracies across the world. Freedom House reported that the condition of democracy...
President Erdogan and the Preeminence of AKP Rule Devastates Turkey’s Democracy
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has challenged Turkey's scant democracy, through exceptional use of oppression against journalism and...
The Zoom Campaign: Political Participation During COVID
The Presidency of Donald Trump has seen the soft guard rails of our democracy eroded. For the first time in recent memory, the protections that...
The Youth Vote, or Lack Thereof
My first experience with our democratic system was the 2012 Presidential Election. Though only ten or eleven at the time, and not having a single...
Black Lives Matter: How a Modern Civil Rights Movement Became a Symbol of American Democracy
The year of 2020 has been nothing short of long, strange and tumultuous. Americans have been dodging punches from all corners of the ring and are...