by Sydney Bechtel | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
How the Issue of Crime has Reshaped the 2022 Midterm Elections As the Midterm Elections rapidly approach, a number of policy issues have taken the forefront of political debate such as inflation, abortion rights, and crime. Given the uproar over the Supreme...
by Michael Iacobelli | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency in his city due to the massive influx of migrants arriving by bus. As a result, New York City is currently facing overcrowding of homeless shelters. An article by Gothamist points out...
by Elizabeth Meyers | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
“I alone can fix it”. Five simple words which have the power to jeopardize American democracy. With Trump’s use of such rhetoric at the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2016 when referring to the political establishment, his bold statements painting the media as...
by Max Schmidhauser | Oct 17, 2022 | Boston University
Populism and nationalism are two separate concepts, yet simultaneously they are deeply interconnected ideologies. Populism, as defined by Jan Mueller, is where a political leader uses anti-establishment (anti-elitist) rhetoric and also claims to be the sole...
by Shiqi Duan | Oct 16, 2022 | Boston University
Trump’s brand of populism created the single most politically spectacular event in the US’s history, when the pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021 to prevent the formalization of Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The failure of the American party system to...
