The world is ending. This is the thought that went through the minds of many Americans this past summer. It was a tumultuous period, filled with civil unrest, uncertainty about public health, and …
Did COVID-19 Rescue American Democracy?
American democracy is in a state of democratic decline. Once rated 93 by Freedom House’s Freedom in the World index in 2013, the U.S.’s score dropped to 86 by 2019 (Repucci 2020). This regression did …
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What is the Future of the Republican Party?
For the past five years, Donald Trump has dominated the Republican party, and even after his loss in November to President-elect Biden, he continues to set the agenda for the party that every other …
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U.S. Trust on Elections
In the last 20 years, the United States has seen an increasing rise in the lack of trust in election results. Public trust in elections began to erode with the Supreme Court's decision in Gore v. Bush …
The Power of Perception: Trump’s Lawsuits May Not Have a Legal Basis, but Still Harm Democracy
Election lawsuits are nothing new in the United States, but President Donald Trump’s legal action and refusal to concede are bordering on unprecedented territory. While the legal remedies he …
America’s Acceptance of Populism
On June 16, 2015, the landscape of American politics and democratic norms would drastically change when former reality TV star, and soon to be 45th President, Donald Trump formally announced his run …
Trump (Kind of) Concedes: Now What?
Cries of “fraud” and “stop the count” have echoed throughout the country ever since Joe Biden took the lead over President Donald Trump in both the popular and electoral counts. Fervent Trump …
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Authoritarianism and Donald Trump
President of China, Xi Jinping, in a recent speech to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), announced that China plans on opening a “super-sized” economy. The APEC forum also includes …