by Samy Castaneda | Dec 8, 2020 | Williams College
The scene in El Salvador’s legislature in February 2020 appeared to come straight out of a dictatorship: Armed Forces and National Civil Police troops armed with rifles and gear were ordered to stand and intimidate legislators in order to support President Nayib...
by Kyleb Bello | Nov 30, 2020 | University of Chicago
From not conceding the election to calling the election “the greatest fraud in the history of our country” Donald Trump has seemingly gone out of his way to attack the norms and institutions that protect our democracy. When reflecting on what’s happening in the self...
by Kelsey Moniz | Nov 25, 2020 | Northeastern University
Grover Cleveland was great at executing people. Nicknamed “The Buffalo Hangman” by opposing campaigns during his first run for president of the United States, Cleveland had been an executioner and sheriff of New York’s Erie County. In 1889, Cleveland couldn’t resist...
by Mayur Patel | Nov 22, 2020 | Northeastern University
President Trump is a major source of democratic backsliding in the U.S.; it is time that he accepts defeat in the 2020 election. “What they’re doing is using COVID to steal an election. They’re using COVID to defraud the American people – all of our people...
by Patrick McGovern | Nov 22, 2020 | Northeastern University
Donald J. Trump lost his re-election campaign for President of the United States. This is a fact. As of now, former Vice-President Joe Biden has received almost 80 million votes to Trump’s nearly 74 million. Biden received 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. No matter...
