While the people and governments of the United States champion the democratic value of voting, voter suppression has plagued this nation since its founding.
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate held a panel entitled “Our Nation’s Founders and Today’s Political Challenges” Thursday night, which sought to reflect and acknowledge the connection between past, present and future legislation, as well as the ideology on topics such as healthcare, treatment of marginalized populations and generalized polarization.
The alt-right is understandably scary. Made up of small bands of white supremacist groups bound together by their vicious animosity toward marginalized communities, the alt-right is armed, militarized and angry because they can be. Though groups vary from khaki-wearing “intellectual” white nationalism to backwater Georgia militias defending themselves against an overreaching government, they’ve successfully bastardized two constitutional rights — that of free speech and that of bearing arms.
The Declaration of Independence, the first official document in the history of our nation, famously stated that “all men are created equal” — specifically leaving women out of the equation. Since...
History — well, history done right — is simply a fair analysis of the past, an analysis that usually involves an argument. Whether the argument is stated outright or embedded in the presentation of...
Throughout his time in office, U.S. President Barack Obama has been criticized as a leader whose long-term goals included waging a war on Christianity. His middle name, Hussein, has made Obama the target...
