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Social Media Influence on Young Voters Continues to Increase: Is It Dangerous? 

by Zachary Walsh | Apr 24, 2022 | Suffolk University

The world has 3.96 active social media users, thirty-one percent of whom are within the ages of 18 to 24. Their constant feed of information from non-traditional news sources has drastically changed the dynamic of how politics is displayed to young voters, creating a...

Us vs. Them: Beyond Issues, Polarization Is a Problem

by Coburn Taverna Liddell | Apr 24, 2022 | Suffolk University

Beyond political or social issues that may contribute to causing it, polarization has evolved into a dangerous framework of communication that is a poison to our democracy and democracies around the world. Jennifer McCoy, a Senior Fellow at the CEU Institute for...

The United States Must Be Cautious of China’s Influence on the World Stage

by Harry Murphy | Apr 24, 2022 | Suffolk University

Over the course of recent world history, few countries have grown quite like China, from an economic, influential and a geopolitical standpoint. However, such a change does not happen overnight. Over the last 43 years, China has seen tremendous economic growth since...

Biden’s Oil Reserve Plan Does Not Bode for the Environment

by Kwali Jenkins | Apr 24, 2022 | Suffolk University

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, oil and gasoline prices skyrocketed to ludicrous amounts of money, with a barrel of oil costing around $100 per barrel and gasoline prices slowly creeping up past $4 per gallon. President Joe Biden attempts to order a release...

Going Nuclear, and Its Threats to American Democracy

by Joshua Ageloff | Apr 21, 2022 | Boston University

In 2013, United States Senate Democrats went nuclear. That is, they changed the rules so that it would take only a simple majority to override a filibuster and confirm nominees for cabinet posts as well as federal judgeships (CBS News), save for the Supreme Court....
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