by Stephen Collins | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University
The first debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, seemed like it was a shouting match between twelve year olds arguing at the playground. It has come to the point in the American political system where the presidential election is no longer...
by Mayur Patel | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes in the world, leaving the right to vote in the United States under siege. One of the pandemic’s most significant impacts will be on the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In its almost 250 years of history,...
by James Lyons | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University
The United States is not a democracy. Though some tout the US as a beacon of representative democracy in the world where economic prosperity is all but guaranteed to those who seek it, those people are most often white Americans. For them, the barriers to democratic...
by Haley Degon | Apr 8, 2020 | Boston University
As the coronavirus ravages the United States, it’s not only endangering the lives of thousands of Americans, but also the foundations of American democratic elections. While COVID-19 and its devastating effects have rightly dominated the headlines for the past few...
by Sara Goldman | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
The 2020 election of Donald J Trump was the result of a democracy that has never worked for all Americans and doesn’t uphold the rights or serve the interests of every American citizen, but Trump’s behavior during elections and the recent impeachment proceedings is a...
