by James Logan | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
White supremacists, homophobic zealots, and other discriminatory, anti-democratic ideologues have a powerful tool in the American Senate. That tool is the filibuster. The filibuster allows a minority of senators to needlessly impede the steady flow of American...
by Ethan Harris | Apr 12, 2021 | Northeastern University
When Donald Trump tweeted, the world listened. More than that, the world reacted. A new @realdonaldtrump Tweet represented an endless array of possibilities—would he announce a new policy? Refute the results of the 2016 election (that he won)? Attack Alec Baldwin? No...
by Lukas Phipps | Nov 23, 2020 | Suffolk University
2016 was the year of the populist; The Guardian noted that the words “populist” or “populism” were in almost 2,000 articles written by them in 2016, compared to only 1,000 the year before. In 2016: more than a quarter of Europeans voted...
by Mylon Patton | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
The America of today is ready to change her conceptions of Democracy and Justice for the future, but she must be cognizant of her history and equipped for the path ahead. The truth of the matter is that Justice in the United States of America has never been what it...
by Leo Zaroff | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
Masks off. Insults exchanged. Microphones muted. The events of this year’s presidential debates have grabbed a significant portion of the US presidential election news cycle, with controversies, punditry, and discussion of the debate format popping up in every major...
