by Jacob Duarte | May 4, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Strong democratic institutions were not created from the standpoint of governments being comprised of moral representatives focused on only the collective good. If our elected officials were always noble there would be no justification to implement a system of checks...
by Lizzy S | Apr 20, 2022 | Rollins College
Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube have cracked down on the spread of misinformation and far-right conspiracy theories after the 2020 election. Many conservatives believe these platforms are censoring their views. Therefore, millions have embraced...
by Elle M | Apr 20, 2022 | Rollins College
QAnon, a political conspiracy movement, has grown in popularity in recent years among political right extremists. According to the Grid investigative journalist Steve Riley–an expert on threats to democracy–data visualization reporter Matt Stiles, and...
by Lizzy S | Apr 4, 2022 | Rollins College
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was held in Orlando, Florida on February 24th through February 27th, 2022. CPAC is one of the largest and most influential conventions for American conservatives. Many well-known conservative activists and...
by Kaitlyn Hart | Mar 25, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
While former President Donald Trump’s new social media network, Truth Social, may end up becoming a “Big Failure” rather than the “Big Tent” it set out to be, alternate social media platforms for conservatives are on the rise. Truth Social is not the first of its...