Wilbur Ross, the United States Secretary of Commerce, has come under fire for callously stating that federal workers struggling to pay...

Hours after becoming the Harvard Law Review’s first Black president, a young Barack Obama was presented with more good news: Abner Mikva,...

The elderly vote is powerful, persistent, and dependable. It has been so for decades, and will continue to be in the foreseeable future....

In the November 2018 midterm elections, Floridian voters passed an amendment restoring the voting rights of convicted felons. As a...

In classrooms across the United States, American children learn the basic structure of their government, a system comprised of three...

Although the redistricting process differs across states, the power to draw districts is typically given to state legislatures. Either...

As American politics becomes increasingly polarized, the two-party system has become an obstacle to healthy government. Extremism often...

When American founding father Elbridge Gerry said, “the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy,” he probably didn’t have...

In October 2018, a referendum to split California into three states almost made it onto the state ballot, gathering more than 600,000...

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued one of the most consequential decisions of the century: Roe v. Wade. Crafting an argument...

Being involved in politics has become trendy again. Increased political polarization and nearly constant controversy in the White House...

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At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama urged a fuming crowd to translate their anger into votes. The mantra...

During election season, the economy is always a hot topic for politicians. In the United States and most European countries, there has...

As the 2018 midterms loom large, many candidates and political organizations have worked tirelessly to get out the vote. Voting is the...

Few things feel more powerful than being surrounded by young people who are taking a risk to speak out and fight for justice. Disrupting...

John Fetterman is Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a town—near Pittsburgh—that once was home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill and a...

Any family that decides to surf channels on the TV to watch the news, sports, or a movie in the fall of an election year will undoubtedly...

President Trump’s June 21st rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was predictably similar to previous rallies he gave as a candidate and continues...

Nestled in the center of Idaho lies Blaine County: an oddly-shaped shaped area nearly twice the size of Rhode Island, with a panhandle...