by Sophia Grazia Mauro | Dec 17, 2020 | Sabanci University
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 not merely occur overnight, but rather as a gradual process of the...
by Alexander McIntosh | Dec 14, 2020 | Georgia State University
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 Republican must follow. Over the course of the past month, he’s...
by Armin Amina | Dec 1, 2020 | University of Georgia
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 when the state of Florida misconducts lead to a heavily...
by J.C. Gonzalez | Nov 30, 2020 | University of Georgia
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 seeks, which include the disenfranchisement of millions of voters in...
by Taya Fontenette | Nov 25, 2020 | Northeastern University
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 for the presidency. In the speech, he called for the renegotiation of...
