Proposed Anti-LGBT Laws Spark Backlash in Tennessee by Andrew Phifer
With the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, what most activists see as the birth of the gay rights movement in the United...
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Canceled Flight; A Bad Sign for Togo’s Prospective Democracy by Caleb Logan
Grounding Opponents On March 28, 2019, François Boko, a former interior minister of Togo who has been in exile in France since 2005, was...
Fighting Illegal Immigration or Fighting Diversity?
The topic of illegal immigration and Donald Trump’s preposition of adding a wall to our southern border have been wildly discussed and argued on...
Brexit is Britain’s Canary in the Coal Mine by Christian Santiago
A response to "How a Strange Massachusetts Election Helps Explain Britain’s Brexit Chaos” by Max Fisher (NYT) The recent events surrounding...
Election Commission Chaos: Are Hard-to-Access Public Meetings a Sign of Democratic Erosion? by Allison Todd
When I was a child, I would ever-so-often hear my mother ask my grandmother what had happened in the most recent election commission meeting; my...
Assessing Public Opinion by Rajdeep Singh
When looking at daily news, a few topics have been constantly appearing in the last two years. The most frequent of them all: the Brexit...
The Divide Between Right-Wing Populists and the Left-Wing Elite by Jacob Buckelew
It is the great paradox within the party of the welfare state that economic populism results in a greater level of elitism in Washington. As...
Rhetoric and Reactionism in the Brexit Debacle – by Matt Willis @ Rollins College
In his article, Max Fisher of the New York Times describes an intriguing conundrum in the democratic process, and two parallel cases that expose...
Perils of the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal, proposed earlier this year, is a non-binding resolution that primarily plans to battle the detrimental effects of climate...