by Jacob Farris | Apr 27, 2018 | American University
Guardrails of democracy ensure that everyone plays on the same field by creating an environment of general respect. One of the most important of these guardrails is mutual toleration. For the purpose of this blog post, mutual toleration is being defined using Levitsky...
by Yanebi Blanco Bayona | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
Last Saturday, March 24, 2018, I experienced first hand what I am convinced will be a defining event in United States history: the ‘March for our lives’ rally in Washington DC. As I was standing among the crowd (around 800,000 people, according to...
by Dylan Quinn | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
On a hot June day in Newark, just under twenty individuals huddled around a conference speaker. Unconstructed cubicles, boxes filled with office supplies, and Keurig coffees cups littered the stuffy office space. While the Deputy Campaign Manager fiddled with...
by Wesley Brock | Mar 30, 2018 | University of Memphis
It is likely that everyone reading this will have heard of the Cambridge Analytica incident by this point. For those who have not the quick version of the story is that an app designed for Facebook and used most often in conjunction with those personality test seen on...
by DAMIAN TYRESE GLOVER | Mar 14, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Is Democracy in the “Most Friendly Nation in the World” Eroding? The simple answer to the question is no. In America there is a constant fight between political parties as well as the people who support the political parties. With good reason too. Being...
