by Michael Tsegaye | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
The last few weeks of American governance have come as a massive surprise to vast swathes of the American public. Among the various events that have rocked the American Political Circus: the establishment of an executive-contracted organization, which lacked an act of...
by Maura Kitterick | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, marking the beginning of his second term in the Oval Office. That day, he signed a myriad of consequential executive orders, one of which is Executive Order 14171: Restoring...
by Kasey Olympiev | Feb 13, 2025 | Boston University
In an effort to explain what some often feel is the unexplainable, political scientists have been devising metrics to analyze those voters who cast their ballots for authoritarian candidates, to varying degrees of success. Among said metrics typically used are age,...
by Johnathan Cohen | Feb 13, 2025 | Boston University
In January, Congressman Andy Ogles, a Republican Representative for Tennessee, introduced a resolution to revise the 22nd Amendment, allowing President Trump and any future president to serve a new maximum of three terms. Now you may be wondering, under this...
by Yana Gokhman | Feb 11, 2025 | Boston University
On Monday, January 25th, President Trump was sworn into office for the second time, and he has been very busy since then. His controversial candidacy and, ultimately, his presidency in 2016 pivoted the U.S. political system in ways the country has not seen before. ...
