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The Exclusionary Consequences of Congressional Inefficiency
The 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives takes approximately 30 seconds to vote on a bill compared to the 15 minutes taken...
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Mar 6, 20215 min read


Mixed Member Pandemonium
Political insults in South Korea make American politics look tame. Liberals call conservatives “authoritarian pro-Japanese traitors,”...
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May 29, 20205 min read


Drawing Lines Between Cornfields: Iowa’s Model for Redistricting
Although the redistricting process differs across states, the power to draw districts is typically given to state legislatures. Either...
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Nov 26, 20185 min read


License to Kill
In 2006, Officer Eddie Boyd of the St. Louis Missouri Police Department had to resign after pistol-whipping a child and falsifying the...
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Oct 11, 20184 min read


Police Brutality: A Global Incentive Analysis of Killer Cops
In a given year, 4,224 people are killed by police brutality in Brazil (2016), 1,147 in the U.S. (2017), and 11 in Germany (2016). In...
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Jun 25, 20185 min read


El Papa del Sur: Pope Francis, Four Years Later
March 13 marked the fourth anniversary of the white smoke – the fumata bianca – leaking out of the top-most chimney in the Sistine...
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Apr 19, 20177 min read


Italy Decides Its Identity
Rome wasn’t built in a day. The reconstruction of modern Italy, likewise, has been slow and taxing. Former Prime Minister and billionaire...
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Dec 4, 20166 min read


A House Warming for Women
The first round of elections for the Majlis, Iran’s national parliament, changed the dynamic for political reformists throughout the...
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Apr 27, 20166 min read


Burning Down the House of Saud: The Conditions for Saudi Arabian Political Reform
In 2006, a teenage girl in Saudi Arabia was blackmailed, held at knife point and gang raped by seven Saudi men. As a response to this...
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Apr 13, 20166 min read


Reforming Caucuses
When most Americans think about choosing a party’s presidential nominee, they likely imagine voting booths and secret ballots, not...
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Mar 16, 20164 min read


The Primary Peril
Is it Super PACs or the liberal media that’s corrupting Washington? While most presidential candidates recognize the American political...
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Feb 2, 20165 min read


At Last: The Big Push for Immigration Reform
At long last, the Obama administration is making a decisive move on immigration reform. On November 20, 2014, the president announced...
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Mar 21, 20157 min read


How the Common Core Became a Talking Point
Since the Common Core’s creation in 2009, forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core as a set of...
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Nov 7, 20145 min read


The Filibuster: A Recipe for Continued Gridlock
The 113th United States Congress has earned the dubious distinction of the least popular in recent history. As recently as August 2014,...
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Sep 22, 20145 min read


A Penchant For Pensions: Large Liabilities in a Weak Economy
The city of Detroit is an easy target for those who like to scoff at government mismanagement. Over the last decade it has been...
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Sep 19, 20145 min read
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[LIVEBLOG] Drug Kingpin Turned Reformer: “Freeway” Rick Ross
The Political Theory Project, in collaboration with Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) present an Odyssey Lecture with “Freeway”...
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Apr 2, 20141 min read


Ruggie Rules: How the UN Can Foster Just Business
Current neoliberal capitalism, so defined by expansion and instability, is not easily reconciled with the concept of human rights. Many...
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Feb 22, 20143 min read


Two Lawyers Walk Into A Bar (Exam): Another Take on Law School Reform
Prospective and current law school students around the country must have been overjoyed to hear President Obama’s remarks at Binghamton...
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Sep 24, 20134 min read
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