And Then There Were Two: Buttigieg, Warren, Bloomberg Out.
April 6, 2020
Super Tuesday has come and gone, and with it, we have seen many candidates drop out. Some, like Tom Steyer, left as they came: unnoticed. But others, like former mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and billionaire Mike Bloomberg, came as a shock, and have left a power vacuum in the primaries...
Southern Inhospitality: the Tenth Democratic Debate
March 13, 2020
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—After three primary elections and nine debates on mostly familiar ground, the Democratic Party is finally off home turf as the race to the primary nomination shifts to ruby-red South Carolina. The tenth debate, hosted at the Gaillard Center Center in Charleston by CBS New...
What Happens in Vegas Won’t Stay in Vegas: the Ninth Democratic Debate
February 24, 2020
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA—What a night! For eight debates the Democratic contender for the presidential nomination have been boxing with kiddie gloves on, but on Wednesday, February 19 at the Le Théâtre des Arts, in Paris Las Vegas, Nevada, the knives truly came out. The six candidates who qualified—Michael...
Mitt Romney and the Last Stand of the Republican Old Guard
February 20, 2020
In today’s hypercharged political environment, “country over party” has become the cynical punchline of a bipartisan joke. Congressmen vote in lockstep at the command of their whips, competing to see who can boast the most uniform of voting records. The House of Representatives and the Senate ...
The end of Andrew Yang’s Campaign
February 13, 2020
Last Tuesday, just hours after the New Hampshire primary results were finalized, Andrew Yang dropped out of the race for the democratic presidential nomination. In doing so, he becomes the first candidate to drop out of the race since primary season began in Iowa at the beginning of February. ...
Schism on the Left: The Seventh Democratic Debate
January 27, 2020
DES MOINES, IOWA—In the seventh televised Democratic primary debate, hosted jointly by CNN and the Des Moines Register on January 14, 2020, six Democratic candidates for president gathered on stage at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klo...
Sharper Elbows on a Smaller Stage: the Sixth Democratic Debate
January 6, 2020
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—The gloves have come off in the Democratic primary. Seven presidential candidates gathered on Thursday, December 19, 2019, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California for the sixth presidential debate for Democratic hopefuls: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabet...
Why Parties Do Not Have a Place in Politics
Alyssa Spady, Editor In-Chief
December 21, 2016
The donkey and the elephant, Tea Partiers, Libertarians, Green Partiers, Socialists, and Independents are all examples of the very things that the founding fathers advocated for American politics not to have. As George Washington said at his farewell address in September of 1796, just 20 years after th...
Growing Protests and the Chances of Violence after 2016 Election
Linnea Foote, Social Media Editor
December 21, 2016
After the election, protests against President-elect Donald J. Trump immediately erupted in major cities like New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles. However, these once peaceful protests seem to be evolving as passion grows. Will there be violence in the upcoming days? Although their main m...
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