by Drew Anderson | Nov 21, 2023 | Northeastern University
United States work stoppages and organized labor activity in 2023 are reaching a level not seen in decades, as hundreds of thousands of workers across the country take to the picket line. Meanwhile, a dysfunctional federal government narrowly avoids yet another...
by Maria Batlle | Nov 20, 2023 | Northeastern University
On January 7th 2023, Representative Kevin McCarthy was elected as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives after a record-breaking 15 rounds of voting. To achieve this, McCarthy had to make numerous concessions to a small faction of far-right Republicans,...
by Tom Huynh | Nov 20, 2023 | University of Memphis
The Democratic Erosion Project exist to help shed light on how democracy falls apart and ways to preserve it as the rise of authoritarian states spread across the democratic world. However in the context of the United States, stealth authoritarianism is an American...
by Jadie Minhas | Oct 30, 2023 | Arizona State University
***Note from the author: My post is meant to analyze constructively the state of democratic institutions in Israel and remark on how the current conflict affects this. It is not meant to give support to any side in this conflict. Israel, a multiparty democracy, finds...
by Kimberly De La Rosa | Oct 18, 2023 | Boston University
On October 3rd, 2023, Kevin McCarthy was removed as Speaker of the House of Representatives in a 216-210 vote, becoming the first person in American history to ever be removed from the position. The domino effect that led to the removal started much earlier in...
