by Izzi Bertolozzi | Feb 16, 2018 | Skidmore College
Bright Line Watch is an organization that, according to their website, “brings together a group of political scientists to monitor democratic practices, their resilience, and potential threats.” The group recently released it’s Wave 4 survey data. Bright Line Watch...
by Jose Smith | Feb 14, 2018 | Columbia University
We are a nation; therefore, we have a right to self-determination. However, not all sociopolitical circumstances are created equally, thus debilitating our agency to define our present and self-determine our future. Our foremost tool of self-determination is our...
by Dakota Fenn | Nov 27, 2017 | Brown University
When we think of the filibuster, we likely alternatively picture a glorious stand against the tyranny of the majority, or a waste of time created by obstructionist opposition to progress. Obviously, which vision of the filibuster we select depends largely on the...
by Hunter Irons | Nov 20, 2017 | University of Memphis
It has been almost fifteen months since Colin Kaepernick first protested the national anthem and started what has become a mega story in the spheres of sports and politics. While Kaepernick remains the central figure in discourses on the matter, it has undoubtedly...
by Alexis Viera | Nov 17, 2017 | Brown University
The March for Racial Justice in Providence was not a march at all. A group of Providence’s activists and allies gathered on a green in India Point Park, forming a largely white crowd that hung on every word spoken at the podium—all from the mouths of people of color...