by Matti Vayrynen | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
Over the course of Trump’s initial presidency and subsequent re-election, the United States has faced several threats to the resilience and stability of its democratic institutions. From the January 6 Capital Attack — an unprecedented failure in the transfer of power...
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...
