Tennesseans have been protesting against systemic racism and police brutality since June, joining other states in demanding justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, two Black Americans killed by …
Money in Politics: The Effort to Revitalize the Mid-South Coliseum and Fairgrounds by Hanna McCarthy
*Photo by Toby Sells, Creative Commons Zero License On February 18, 2020 the Memphis City Council held a public meeting in which one significant agenda item was to discuss development plans for the …
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s State of the State Address: The Heartbeat Bill Promotes Polarization
On Thursday, February 13, 2020, Tennessee’s Republican governor Bill Lee delivered his State of the State address for West Tennessee at Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee. While his address focused …
Proposed Anti-LGBT Laws Spark Backlash in Tennessee by Andrew Phifer
With the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, what most activists see as the birth of the gay rights movement in the United States, mere months away, it looks as if Tennessee …
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Election Commission Chaos: Are Hard-to-Access Public Meetings a Sign of Democratic Erosion? by Allison Todd
When I was a child, I would ever-so-often hear my mother ask my grandmother what had happened in the most recent election commission meeting; my grandmother, active in the local political sphere as an …
Tennessee Republicans Continue Legislative Overreach by Em Bennett
Following February 2017 shooting of Nashville resident Jocques Clemmons by Metro Police officer Joshua Lippert, Nashville citizens began to call, yet again, for an independent oversight board to …
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How Bipartisan Committees Resolve Polarization by Vielman Cruz
Mutual tolerance from people of different political ideologies is one of the most important cornerstones of true democracy. These guardrails of democracy are so engrained in the American psyche that …
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Group Polarization by Jacob Murray
February 16, 2019, was a night to remember in Williamson County, Tennessee and a reminder of how partisan we can become if we surround ourselves with only people that agree with us. A sitting United …