by Halle Goldsmith | Mar 26, 2026 | Suffolk University
More than a decade after joining the European Union, Croatia still struggles with corruption, weak courts, and low public trust. This raises a puzzle: if EU membership is supposed to lock in democratic stability, why do these problems persist? The answer lies in a key...
by Safa Chowdhry | Mar 23, 2026 | University of Houston
The representation of American’s political identities have been vastly changing over the past two decades. Public polls show that roughly 40 percent of Americans no longer identify with either the Democratic or Republican party. The rise of the independent party has...
by Jacob Scott | Mar 16, 2026 | Salem State University
In October 2025, Donald Trump refiled a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times after a district judge dismissed it for being too long, giving the administration 28 days to trim it down (from 85 pages to 40 pages). In the lawsuit, President Trump claims that the...
by Madelyn Stuart | Mar 12, 2026 | University of Houston
In a June 2024 Fox News interview, then presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that when in office, he would support the release of the full Epstein files. These files pertain to convicted sex trafficker Jefferey Epstein. Epstein was a financier who pleaded...
by Ikenna Anusiem | Mar 9, 2026 | University of Houston
In July 2024, the Supreme Court decided Trump v. United States. The ruling? Former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for “official acts” they take while in office. That sentence sounds technical and legal but it raises a very simple yet...
