Ranked-choice voting matters because people deserve to see their legislators represent the issues they care about. Our current electoral system makes it extremely difficult to achieve these changes.
With a presidency and 35 Senate seats to decide on in less than a month, candidates are leaving no stone unturned to appeal to their voters. Boston University’s College of Communication hosted a panel Wednesday entitled, “Political Ads: What Do Candidates Get For $1 Billion?”
With the 2016 presidential election on the horizon, the concern for national security has fiercely risen to the surface. Placing national security at the heart of their campaigns, both Donald Trump and...
If you have read any election forecasting models, such as The New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics, etc., you would assume the election is over. As of Wednesday, the Times...
Despite receiving less viewership around the country when compared to the big-league debate, the two vice presidential candidates squared off Tuesday night at Longwood University.
That’s in Farmville,...
The morning after last week’s presidential debate, one of my professors spent class stressing the importance of voting. She then told us about her mother, who is turning 102 this year.
When her mother...
Oftentimes, the most dangerous threats to our well-being are slow growing. They creep in, getting worse and worse until they are unavoidable. Climate change most definitely falls under that category. The...
When I first tell people that I’m from the United States, the order of conversation usually proceeds as follows: me clarifying that no, I’m not from New York City but instead upstate New York, that...
Will the 2016 primary season ever end? After what seems like 100 years of campaigning, debates and petty fighting, we’re rolling toward the finish line. If the Republican race was a fictional TV drama...
