International Trade: The Looming Executive
In 2016, the election of Donald Trump heralded in an age of unprecedented domestic anxiety. The electorate was bitterly divided between the...
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Why Gerrymandering Is a Danger to American Democracy
On June 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court gave its ruling on two significant cases called Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause. The reason...
Interference at the Ballot Box: Why Voter Suppression Isn’t Just a Swing State Problem
News stories on voter suppression have been a common sight during this election cycle. In early October, Texas governor Greg Abbott (R) ordered...
Tipping the Scales: The Judicial System as an Inadequate Safeguard Against Democratic Erosion
All eyes are on Amy Coney Barrett and Congress this week as the Senate prepares to confirm a Supreme Court justice just days before the election....
“Court-Packing” and Saving American Democracy
On December 21, 2018, news organizations ran abuzz with a bomb report — Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been re-diagnosed with cancer. The BBC published...
Threats to the Judiciary in the United States: Looking Beyond the Executive
Despite not having grown up in the US, for virtually all my life I’ve heard...
North Korea as a Populist Regime
The political structure of a country is often presented on a spectrum; it is the degree of democracy or autocracy rather than a dichotomous...
The Paradox of Trump’s Middle Class Supporters
In his 1959 book “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American sociologist and democratic theorist Seymour Lipset advanced a model of what made...
Even Justice Under Law
After the passing of Justice Scalia in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not consider any nomination...