In a week, a year will have passed since Donald Trump’s election. In this time, we have seen a flourishing of political involvement among the intellectual left. Pink knit hats, blue ACLU ribbons, and …
How Experts and the Public See Democracy Differently. By Aidan Calvelli @ Brown University
In February 2017, a group of political scientists founded Bright Line Watch, a group focused on surveying experts and the public to assess their perceptions of the state of American democracy. The …
Donald Trump and Populist Rhetoric in 140 Characters or Less by Anna Spier @Boston University
President Donald Trump is no stranger to twitter. His tweets are frequent and he makes no obvious effort to hide his true opinions on a vast array of subjects, from foreign affairs, to the media, to …
Trump’s Polarizing Presidentialism, Poeticized by Eminem by Kate Jamison @ Boston University
The Trump Administration has done an excellent job of staying present in the media, between the president’s tweets threatening to start a nuclear war with North Korea to the viral video of him …
Mass Surveillance + Populism = A Threat to Public Safety and Democracy by Lukas McMahon @Boston University
A free, liberal democracy should not spy on its citizens. But the United States does, and it may continue to indefinitely, which puts its citizens at risk of persecution — especially with the rise of …
The Suffocation of Presidential Norms by Jarred Barlow @ Boston University
After Donald Trump’s latest Twitter-staged boxing match, this time with Republican Senator Bob Corker, it seems as though one more mound of soil has been dropped on the grave of presidential …
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It’s not all Trump’s fault: democratic erosion’s recurring presence in the United States by Isabela Karibjanian @ Brown University
President Donald Trump’s presidency is not the start of democratic erosion in the United States – it’s the continuation of several long and often normalized trends. According to Juan J. Linz’s The …
Hurricane Maria Through the Populist Lens of Donald Trump by Chance Rogala @ Boston University
In the aftermath of the devastation brought on by Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump has made it clear that immediate, widespread aid efforts by the federal government were not his top priority. …