by Sameer Bhasin | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
Throughout his four years in office, President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration was unparalleled. Trump’s willingness to brazenly insult immigrants and ethnic minorities directly played into his role as a right-wing populist hero. Unfortunately, while in that...
by Falan Walker | Feb 22, 2022 | Boston University
Political appointments within bureaucracy are usually not headline worthy- unless they are controversial in nature. Former U.S. president Donald Trump appointed a litany of controversial figures to senior positions, creating a storm of criticism; perhaps for just...
by Alonzo Lepper | Feb 16, 2022 | Boston University
Over the past 6 years, the Republican Party has been successful in convincing the American people that they are the true defenders of democracy. The political party has increasingly played off of the “us versus them” phenomenon to the point where undermining democracy...
by Jason Wright | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
Following the conclusion of the 2020 Census in the United States, all fifty states began the process of legislative redistricting. Redistricting is the mechanism through which the boundaries of state...
by Sal Giolando | Feb 13, 2022 | Ohio State University
“Congress shall be in session on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of the electors” – Electoral Count Act The Electoral Count Act Most Americans know about the January 6th Capital Riots, but few know the 19th-century law behind it. When...