What is social media truly for? Is it a free place for a political candidate to promote their ideas on social media freely? A platform for tyrants to spread disinformation? Is it simply a place for us …
U.S. Prisons’ Overcrowding Pandemic Failures
The issue of prison system failures that stem from pandemic regulations (or lack thereof) is a pervasive one across the globe. While pre-pandemic systems were already fraught with rampant human rights …
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It’s Time to Make Election Day a Federal Holiday
Voter suppression is one of the most pressing issues facing American democracy today. Many scholars worry we are living through a second coming of Jim Crow as across the nation elected officials are …
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An Argument for Compulsory Voting
Voting has been considered a sacred practice for centuries. As one of the main pillars of a democratic society, perhaps the best way to do this in a democratic system is to vote in elections. And yet, …
Your Political Beliefs May Be Programmed
We’ve all seen it – fake social media accounts blasting blatant disinformation and propaganda. Your uncle Bill retweets them and your cousin Sally shares their links on Facebook, but they don’t know …
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The Filibuster: How a Centuries-Old Loophole is Damaging Democracy
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 …
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Digital Populism: The Risk of the New Political Outsider
When Donald Trump tweeted, the world listened. More than that, the world reacted. A new @realdonaldtrump Tweet represented an endless array of possibilities—would he announce a new policy? Refute the …
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What We Can Learn From the Irish: Lessons in Populism
2016 was the year of the populist; The Guardian noted that the words "populist" or "populism" were in almost 2,000 articles written by them in 2016, compared to only 1,000 the year before. In 2016: …
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