How the U.S. can break away from the two-party system with ranked choice voting
Ava Green interviewed Greg Dennis, Policy Director of Voter Choice Massachusetts, about how ranked choice voting can increase participation.
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Ava Green
- Nov 15, 2023
How Ron Desantis is building a dystopian future through the lens of 1984
Politico. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a rally in support of Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano on...
Anna Epstein
- May 4, 2023
The Crisis of Infrastructure Investments
On February 2, 2023, news broke of the short-selling, leading to the stock collapse of the Adani Group, headed by the world's second...
Ameya Khanapurkar
- May 3, 2023
The Development of Palestinian National and Political Consciousness
The Palestinian story is far from a monolith. Cultural, regional, and social identifiers shape the identity of Palestinian Arabs. This is...
Kevin Mani
- Apr 5, 2023
The CIA’s Involvement in the 1953 Iranian Coup d’État
The publication Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951-1954 — an official historical record of major United States...
Mike Dupre
- Mar 27, 2023
Honesty in The Oval: A Simple Man in a Not So Simple Time
America’s 39th President has many defining characteristics, best encapsulated in the belief that the country could serve as a force of...
Kevin Mani
- Mar 6, 2023
The United Kingdom’s Social Care Crisis
Before the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union and introduced a more restrictive immigration policy, the country attracted...
Subin Moon
- Dec 6, 2022
The History of the Expatriate Community in Saudi Arabia
Since the discovery of oil, many states in the Persian Gulf have used these resources to transform from small desert sheikhdoms into...
Mike Dupre
- Nov 16, 2022
Aerial Combat and American Ideology: Why Ukraine is a Test of Our Tactical Preparedness
Ukraine’s jet pilot off for a training flight. (Air Force Command of UA Armed Forces/ Facebook.) Center for Defense Strategies: How...
Ethan Gasse
- Nov 9, 2022
Students Rally and Speak Out at Engineering Career Fair
The Boston University engineering department tries to be clear in verbalizing their goals and what they strive to achieve with their...
Sarah Bores
- Oct 13, 2022
Social Media's Propagation of Political Violence
Social media continues to have an increasingly influential role in the state of global affairs as platforms can be easily manipulated to...
Dora Betts
- Apr 27, 2022
Affirmative Action is Not Enough To Solve Disparities within the Educational System
Mark Wilson/Getty Images A judge has recently struck down a conservative legal group’s lawsuit challenging the University of North...
Ruhika Ponda
- Apr 4, 2022
The Covid-19 Pandemic's Disproportionate Effect on Minority Prisoners
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Lawrence Carter was a disabled Vietnam war veteran accused of drug possession. While awaiting trial, he was...
Ferren Winarto
- Feb 22, 2022
The Facilitated Rise of UKIP and How Economic Discontent Ignited the British Populist Flame
INTRODUCTION Will Oliver -- EPA/Alamy The United Kingdom Independence Party, also known as UKIP, is an established right-wing populist...
Jason Miraka
- Feb 9, 2022
Cultural Genocide: An Annihilation of the Soul
In “The Destruction of the Armenian Church during the Genocide,” historian, professor, and author Simon Payaslian endeavors to...
Ferren Winarto
- Jan 16, 2022
An Interview with Tabitha Boyton of Res Publica Politics
Tabitha Isabella Boyton is a final year student at Northeastern University reading Law with International Relations with Politics (Hons)...
Hanna Dworkin
- Dec 1, 2021
Sexual Misconduct at Boston University
Picture courtesy of Jackie Ricciardi “You don’t have to go through this alone.” When scrolling through Boston University’s Sexual Assault...
Jason Miraka
- Oct 4, 2021
Scars of Europe
Phillip Capper, CC BY Beneath the trenches scarring Europe’s fields languish the corpses of young men subjected to the barbarity of a...
Guhan Venkatesan
- Jun 20, 2021
Red Dead Revitalization
Bebeto Matthews/The Associated Press During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the general line of thinking was that urban, densely...
Eduard Miska
- Apr 5, 2021
Back-Channel Triumphant: Kissinger, Dobrynin, and the 1972 Treaty on Limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile
Runner-Up of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Henry Kissinger and Anatoly Dobrynin in the Map Room at the White House, March 17,...
Parth Dahima
- Apr 5, 2021
The Need for a Third-Way: Issues Surrounding Medicare-for-All
Runner-Up of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Alex Wong/Getty Images INTRODUCTION Contemporary progressivism in the United States...
Yashica Kataria
- Apr 5, 2021
The Disappearance of Hindu Symbols of Marriage: What Does it Mean for Hindu Culture?
Winner of The Politica's Research Essay Prize 2021 Symbols of Hindu marriage have been around for centuries and the meanings behind them...
Charlie Kielt
- Mar 28, 2021
r/WallStreetBets and the Illusion of Rebellion
On the morning of January 28th, 2021, retail investing giant Robinhood and similar brokers halted trade of certain stocks and their...
Ferren Winarto
- Mar 2, 2021
The League of Nations: Destined for Failure
As the progenitor of the modern-day United Nations, the League of Nations was the first intergovernmental organisation which was...
Catherine Wasson and Maxwell James
- Jan 24, 2021
Term Limits: A Solution to Congressional Gridlock, Lobbyists, and Voter Indifference to Elections?
In the United States, the average age of a legislator in Congress is fifty-nine. [1] This is problematic, as young people are impacted by...
Subin Moon
- Jan 22, 2021
Mom, Why Do I Have to Go to School?
AsiaNews This paper examines the role universal access to primary education in South Korea in the late 1950s played in providing a...
Mayela Machribie Lumban Gaol
- Jan 16, 2021
Revisiting Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York in Today’s America
© Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York is a film that reminds us that for as long as the United States has...
Ferren Winarto
- Dec 10, 2020
The Reality of Hobbes’ Realism in the Arms Race: from the Cold War to the Present
“Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has...
Anonymous
- Dec 6, 2020
Private Insurance Finally Codes
Photo by Kendal on Unsplash “As much as some want to deny it, a public health insurance option – or better yet, well-implemented...
Ferren Winarto
- Dec 6, 2020
The Kantian Fingerprint on the United Nations’ Self Determination of Peoples
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization which seeks to promote diplomatic relations and foster peace and cooperation...
Anthony Kolton
- Dec 6, 2020
The Blessings of Immigration
The blessings of immigration are bestowed to the lucky few who immigrate and to the countries which they move to, like the United States.
Laila Inan and Wilfred Chirinos
- Dec 6, 2020
Ideological Tourism: How COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter Exposed Performative Activism
This paper addresses the social and political phenomena of “ideological tourism” and “slacktivism” to explain the performative actions displ
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