The 2024 election of Donald Trump shocked many across the United States. To a portion of the population, such an overtly right-wing and proto-fascist candidate gaining such prominence and winning…
As the challenge of garnering the youth vote becomes more relevant in the American electoral landscape, both the Democratic Party and the GOP have employed politically innovative tactics to sway…
On June 25, 2013, in the case of Shelby County v. Holder, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned one of the core provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 just…
While still in office, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, made a bold statement about his country’s judiciary, claiming, "Judges, with honorable exceptions ... are at the service…
The war on drugs in Mexico has been a campaign marred by setbacks, failures, and tragedy. As a response to the growing violence from organized crime in the country, president…
“Those who do not learn history are condemned to repeat it.” This quote permeates through our society as a reminder that it is impermissible to forget the sins of the…
Every presidential election cycle, I get unreasonably excited to watch presidential debates. Something about the lack of coherence, the dodging of questions, and the overall contentious nature of the event…
For the politically informed, the classic conservative Republican agenda is pretty easy to summarize. From the middle of the 20th century when the modern conception of the party came to…
When it comes to confidential government documents and intelligence leaks, most people think of blockbuster cases like the Pentagon Papers, the Snowden NSA leaks, and Wikileaks. Regular citizens got their…
“We must not take our eyes off China.” Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho made this claim in a press release last year in regard to China’s expanding power both in…