by Jackie Rosa | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
On April 7th, 2020, states all around the nation watched as the implosion of Wisconsin’s government occurred as there was a tug of war between a conservative state Supreme Court and a democratic governor. As a resident of Wisconsin to say this was the first case of...
by Gabriel Morales | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Congress and indeed the rest of the country has been grappling with how we should proceed in filling the late justice’s seat. The Republican and Senate majority argument is a rewriting and violation of previously...
by Andrew Olivei | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In their seminal work How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify two principal constitutional guardrails that, they argue, have allowed democracy to survive in the United States even in light of constitutional imperfections: mutual toleration and...
by Niko Rodriguez | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
It is clear that increasing partisanship correlates with democratic erosion. Matthew Graham and Milan Svolik, in a candidate-choice experiment, found that US voters who identified with a certain party were more likely to choose a candidate from the same party in spite...
by Alex Mantilla | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
On December 21, 2018, news organizations ran abuzz with a bomb report — Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been re-diagnosed with cancer. The BBC published this headline: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Liberal America panics when she falls ill. But why is this the case? Why should the...
