On March 12th, Austrian citizens and political elites gathered at Heldenplatz, the public courtyard in front of Vienna’s Hofburg Palace. The date marks the 80th anniversary of Hitler’s "Anschluss", or …
The Gun Violence Protest Movement Will be a Democratic Litmus Test by Lindsey Powell @ University of Pennsylvania
On February 22nd, students and faculty of the University of Pennsylvania lined Locust Walk, the campus’s central pathway, to protest gun violence and call for reform. Their demonstration occurred less …
DISRESPECTING THE UNION: HOW LAWMAKERS’ STATE OF THE UNION PROTESTS THREATEN TO UNDERMINE DEMOCRACY by LINDSEY POWELL @ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
On January 30, 2018, President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to 46 million television viewers and a chamber filled with American dignitaries. Despite the chamber’s bustling …