by Madison Mandell | Mar 14, 2022 | Brown University
Violent threats against election officials in the U.S. were at an all-time high during and following the 2020 election cycle — elected officials are leaving their jobs in what has been described as a “mass exodus” because of such threats. This has precipitated a...
by Alejandro Morles | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
On February 7, 2022, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that a potentially illegal congressional map of Alabama may be used in the upcoming 2022 election. Critics of this decision point out the blatant race-packing under the proposed map, where Black voters...
by Nidhi Shah | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
Democracy was already backsiding in many countries before the pandemic, and the United States is no exception. However, the pandemic brought forth already existing problems from its polarizing responses to the COVID-19 due to the weakening of the rule of law that has...
by James Logan | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
White supremacists, homophobic zealots, and other discriminatory, anti-democratic ideologues have a powerful tool in the American Senate. That tool is the filibuster. The filibuster allows a minority of senators to needlessly impede the steady flow of American...
by Sofia Delgado | Feb 4, 2022 | University of Chicago
Following a worrying trend of anti-democratic actions taken by Wisconsin’s Republican politicians, in November of 2021, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson called for a unilateral takeover of the state’s bipartisan Elections Commission (WEC) by the Republican-controlled...
