by John Russo | Apr 8, 2020 | Boston University
Earlier in the year and in late 2019, the Republican party in the US has been suppressing voters and voter turnouts through voter roll purges and the passage of voter ID laws. Since then, attempts at voter suppression have increased in this new age of COVID-19. The...
by Leilani Chew | Apr 6, 2020 | Boston University
Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ron Wyden recently proposed emergency voting reforms which would allow every U.S. state to expand the use of vote-by-mail. According to Klobuchar, these changes would help ensure that during the coronavirus pandemic, no citizen has to “‘pick...
by Steven Rubin | Apr 6, 2020 | Boston University
In the Middle East, no country is more democratic than the State of Israel, as evidenced by the Democracy Index of 2019 [1]. However, the strain put on Israel’s political system in the past year has...
by Saadia Ali | Apr 6, 2020 | Boston University
Like the rest of the world, Americans have a lot on their minds right now. With the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reaching 10,000 just this morning, Americans are understandably distressed over the nation’s public health. Perhaps, however, an even bigger stressor for...
