by Cassandra Dula | Mar 8, 2018 | Ohio State University
“Where do I even start?” This is what read on a large sign at the 2018 Cleveland Women’s March, fashioned out of a piece of cardboard and written in bold, black letters. On January 20th, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Cleveland to march for gender equality,...
by Ra'shad Johnson | Mar 7, 2018 | Georgia State University
The democratic gem, the United States, is undergoing extensive backsliding due in part to gerrymandering. Gerrymandering by definition means to divide – to divide a state into districts as to unfairly give a political party an advantage in a majority of...
by Pomerantz Rachel | Feb 25, 2018 | University of Pennsylvania
The political fight over gerrymandering in Pennsylvania has recently taken a markedly dangerous turn. The legal battle over the Pennsylvania congressional district lines has become a debate about separation of powers, judicial independence, and the sanctity of...
by Abby Nutter | Feb 22, 2018 | Ohio State University
In Kurt Weyland’s piece on the barriers to populism in America he identifies Republican constraint as one of the protecting factors of American democracy. However, this argument is flawed for several reasons. First, the actions of our Republican congress in the first...
by Cassandra Dula | Feb 22, 2018 | Ohio State University
In December of 2017, several news reports – the first of which was the Washington Post – alleged that the Centers for Disease Control had enacted a “ban” on seven words in budgeting documents that were heading to Congress for approval. The words included...
