by Amber Germain | Oct 26, 2020 | Georgia State University
How can we classify the self-pitched-Playboy-Cover-model son of a wealthy, racist real estate developer as a populist when he is neither like the people he claims to represent nor does he enact policy to help his supportive minority in a meaningful way? Trump is not a...
by Monica Greig | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
Levitsky and Ziblatt write that ‘extreme polarization can kill democracies.’ [1] Polarization of politics in the US has left Americans not only at risk from a weakening of democracy, but it has also now threatened their ability to trust the governments handling of the...
by Zafiro Aguilar | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has offered essential services to the people of the United States for more than 240 years. Among these services include the secure delivery of absentee ballots during election years, and this election year is no different. So...
by Eliza Beckerman-Lee | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
After a summer marked by a global health crisis, social upheaval, and a devastating economic downturn, the stakes of an American presidential election have never been higher. And with early voting well under way and election day coming up in less than two weeks,...
by Molly Portwood | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In 2016, American trust of mass media was at an all-time low. Gallup found that of 1,020 adult Americans surveyed, 32% reported having a “great deal/fair amount” of trust in the media. When sorted by party affiliation, Gallup found that 51% of Democrats, 30% of...
