by Connor Weathers | Oct 25, 2020 | Suffolk University
Americans are not as polarized as we think we are. A new report from Beyond Conflict, a non-profit that leverages research from cognitive and behavioral science to address issues of conflict resolution, reconciliation and social change, finds that Democrats and...
by Bernal Cortés | Oct 25, 2020 | Williams College
In 2004, in a small dorm room at Harvard University, Facebook was born. A platform initially designed for American college students to network and meet each other has grown to host nearly 3 billion global monthly users in little over 16 years. With such exponential...
by James Walsh | Oct 24, 2020 | Suffolk University
The Presidency of Donald Trump has seen the soft guard rails of our democracy eroded. For the first time in recent memory, the protections that many thought were intertwined with American style democracy have begun to disappear. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these...
by Eliza Beckerman-Lee | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
After a summer marked by a global health crisis, social upheaval, and a devastating economic downturn, the stakes of an American presidential election have never been higher. And with early voting well under way and election day coming up in less than two weeks,...
by Akshay Mody | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In the United States, union membership has set a national standard – a north star – for employee protections, labor rights, and political organization in the workplace. However, since the 1980’s, union membership and mobilization power has consistently diminished and...
