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posted on by Marilisa Vega
University of Utah Tagged With: alt-right, isis, terrorism, terrorist attacks, weaponized communication, white extremist, white supremacy, white terrorism
posted on by Ryan Ledbetter
Georgia State University Tagged With: Italy, populism
Democracy can be hard sometimes. The Us Vs. Them divide deepens in democracies around the world with every populist that finds a way to magnify their voice. How did we get here? Your bran likely just …
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posted on by Marley Belanger
Suffolk University Tagged With: democratic backsliding, drug abuse, drugs, Lobbying, Opioid, partisanship, United States, War on Drugs
The United States is facing two catastrophic challenges simultaneously, a pandemic, and a forgotten but long-present epidemic, the US opioid crisis. While talk of opioids and overdoses is not new to …
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posted on by Isabel Welch
With the midterm elections a year away, battles over redistricting are happening all over the United States, including in Texas. There, Republicans have forged their political agendas through …
posted on by Lindsey Pigeon
Redistricting determines the extent of a party’s hold on a state’s political power for an entire decade. Sometimes, the politicians that are responsible for updating the district maps every decade …
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posted on by Keffrey Foster
On various media platforms, there has been videos and photos circulating of Border Patrol agents on horseback clashing with Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas on September 19th, 2021. This caused …