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Shrewd Likud
Even after eleven years in office and three indictments for corruption, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s political...
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May 29, 20205 min read
Popularizing the Popular Vote
As the United States enters a new presidential campaign season, discussions about the Electoral College are bound to resurface. The...
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May 29, 20203 min read


Funny Business: Why comedy is good for politics
Long before he became ensnared in Trump’s infamous quid pro quo, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a joke. The famous comedian...
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May 29, 20205 min read


Iowa and Why America Must Abolish Caucuses
The Iowa Caucus is always a spectacle. Pollsters, journalists, pundits, and voters alike watch it because the results provide a strong...
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Apr 18, 20204 min read


The Untapped Political Power of Asian America
After a memorable performance in the second Democratic debate last July, entrepreneur Andrew Yang rose rapidly from obscurity. In the...
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Apr 18, 20205 min read


The Comedian President: Volodymyr Zelensky’s Victory in the April 2019 Ukrainian Elections
“ARMY, LANGUAGE, FAITH,” mockingly boomed an actor playing Petro Poroshenko, the former president of Ukraine, to an enthralled crowd in a...
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Jul 23, 20195 min read


The United States’ Most Influential Referees: Debate Moderation’s Value in the 2020 Pres
The 2020 Presidential campaigns have thus far been characterized by lofty, idealistic promises for change. These types of simplistic and...
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Jul 23, 20194 min read


A New Model of Power Transfer in the Post-Soviet World
Transfers of power in illiberal and authoritarian states are rarely fluid. We have very few examples of peaceful and lasting regime...
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Apr 30, 20194 min read


American Supermoms and the Struggle for Elected Office
When Senator Kirsten Gillibrand vowed to, “fight for your children as hard as I would fight for my own,” in her signature campaign...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


A Straightforward Decision
If you find yourself voting in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina or Utah, you might be...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Changing the Game: At-Home Voting
The American vote is broken. The solution may not be to bring the people to the polls, but rather to bring the polls to the people by...
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Apr 19, 20195 min read


Raising the Bar
When American founding father Elbridge Gerry said, “the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy,” he probably didn’t have...
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Nov 25, 20184 min read


Power to the States: Preparing for a Post-Roe America
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued one of the most consequential decisions of the century: Roe v. Wade. Crafting an argument...
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Nov 1, 20186 min read


Opening Our Democracy in the Age of Voter Disaffection
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama urged a fuming crowd to translate their anger into votes. The mantra...
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Oct 17, 20186 min read


Is it the Economy?
During election season, the economy is always a hot topic for politicians. In the United States and most European countries, there has...
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Oct 15, 20185 min read


Fueled by Hypocrisy: The DNC’s Ethical Floundering on Climate
Few things feel more powerful than being surrounded by young people who are taking a risk to speak out and fight for justice. Disrupting...
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Sep 11, 20186 min read


No Viable Left: Failing the Middle Class
The political parties of the United States continuously fail the nation’s poor. Republicans have devised a tax plan that disenfranchises...
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Mar 5, 20184 min read


Boeing and Iran: Boeing’s Quest to Give the Iran Deal a Soft Landing
In the present-day United States, no landmark political decision is insulated from commercial interests: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
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Dec 13, 20175 min read


A Kyrgyz Democratic Revolution?
The Kyrgyz Republic, a small mountainous country in Central Asia, has been through multiple violent revolutions, in both 2005 and...
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Dec 8, 20174 min read


American Voter Turnout: The Overlooked Crisis Of Our Democracy
Lost amidst the perpetual scandals, ruthless mudslinging, and overall unprecedented nature of the 2016 American Presidential election was...
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Mar 2, 20176 min read
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