by higgins.623@osu.edu | Oct 10, 2024 | Ohio State University
“I’ll talk to you the minute you stop killing children,” he proclaims as he closes the door in our faces. My roommate, a public policy major, has been interning as a campaign assistant for Beryl Brown Piccolantonio, a Democratic candidate for the 4th district in...
by tessa_rose_crowley@brown.edu | Oct 10, 2024 | Brown University
For nearly a decade, much of the American public’s attention has been devoted to whether or not Donald Trump hopes to destroy American democracy. Opponents speak his name alongside a volley of epithets – populist, demagogue, nationalist, authoritarian, dictator...
by sophia_janssens@brown.edu | Oct 9, 2024 | Brown University
Before October of 2023, Freedom House described Poland as having “the swiftest democratic decline in the [European] region.” The far-right, nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) had been in power since 2015. The years of their rule were characterized by recognized...
by laudolff.1@osu.edu | Sep 13, 2024 | Ohio State University
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” It is July 1, 2024, and the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on the case Trump v. United States. Liberals, like Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the above quote, are furious while conservatives praise the 6-3 decision that...
by sapp.140@osu.edu | Sep 13, 2024 | Ohio State University
On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the President of the United States is above the law. In Trump v. United States, the Supreme Court reviewed allegations against former President Donald Trump regarding his purported attempts to overturn the 2020...
