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...
by Parker Berke | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
During his first four years, President Trump appointed 226 judges to federal district, appeals, and supreme courts, almost three fourths as much as President Obama did during his whole two terms. Many Democrats have now been pushing for President Biden to begin his...
by Auston Alderman | Mar 25, 2021 | Georgia State University
The specter of the mainstream media is worrisome and even more so when hearing about the growing concentration of media under a few corporations[1]. There are also issues of misinformation and the masquerading of opinionated articles as “journalistic” pieces,...
by Connor Hall | Nov 30, 2020 | University of Georgia
A Reluctant Recognition Standing alongside the likes of Vladimir Putin, Jair Bolsonaro, and Kim Jong-Un, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador has remained one of a handful of current world...
by Monica Greig | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
In 2018, Barack Obama said, “We’re the only advanced democracy that deliberately discourages people from voting.” This is incredibly problematic and unfortunately incredibly true. Political scientist Joseph Schumpeter [1] defines democracy as an arrangement decided by...
