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US Voter ID Laws: Democratic or Discriminatory?
Within the past decade states across the US have increasingly pushed for voter ID laws in an attempt to minimize voter fraud. This seems optimal, however voter fraud has not been proven to be a …
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Sanders and Trump, The peoples’ party?
https://medium.com/@marcushjohnson/bernie-sanders-and-donald-trump-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-a862b80762e7 Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders run on populist’s platforms that claim to be in …
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Is There Still Value to Model United Nations?
Why do young people have the lowest voter turnout rates for all ages? Are school systems at fault? Should parents be doing more to educate their children? Nobody is necessarily at fault, but providing …
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Gerrymandering Takes Part in Eroding Our Country’s Democracy
"Of all times to abandon the Court's duty to declare the law, this was not the one. The practices challenged in these cases imperil our system of government. Part of the Court's role in that system is …
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How Attacks on Press Freedom in Bulgaria Spell Trouble for Democracy
On October 6th, 2018, Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found murdered in a park along the Danube. 30-year old Marinova had been a television journalist on Bulgarian channel TVN whose final …
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