An illustration demonstrating a simplified version of what ranked choice voting looks like. Illustration courtesy of Yes! Magazine. On November 3, 2020, aside from voting for the President, their Senator,…
Signing ceremony for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, held virtually. Source: The New York Times. On Sunday, November 15, 15 Asian-Pacific countries signed the largest free trade deal in the…
Photo Courtesy of GQ Magazine. A sea of preppy khakis and blazers. Buttoned-down shirts and Hermes ties. Belligerent white men banging on doors and chanting, “stop the voter fraud!” This…
Senator Ed Markey following his victory over Representative Joe Kennedy III in the Democratic primary for a Massachusetts Senate seat on Sep. 1. Image courtesy of NPR. By all accounts,…
Returned mail-in ballots in the July New York primary. Courtesy of The Intercept and the AP. “Laboratories of democracy” are a distinctive feature of the American system. The phrase traces…
President Donald Trump (left) and Former Vice President Joe Biden at the first presidential debate (image courtesy of CNN) On the night of October 15, President Donald Trump and…
Joe Biden, with his wife, Jill, in Columbia, SC after winning the South Carolina Democratic primary. Photo courtesy of GERALD HERBERT/AP Somewhere in the morass of contemporary American politics,…
Pictured: A vote-by-mail ballot enclosed in an envelope.Photo courtesy of Vox.com. The COVID-19 crisis has seemingly brought the entire United States to a standstill. Social distancing and stay-at-home orders have…
Along with many other women this past week, I felt a little disillusioned when Senator Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the 2020 Presidential race. Now, we must wait another four years to have a chance at finally calling someone Madam President.
Courtesy of TradiMo. “I don’t think [economic] expansions just die of old age,” said Janet Yellen, which was followed by Ben Bernanke saying, “I like to say they get murdered.”…