“Four years ago, the 2016 Presidential Election was nearing an end and Hillary Clinton was expanding her lead in the polls. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s chances of victory were looking pretty slim. As we know, though, he did win. Now, as we near yet another close Presidential Election, the question on many Americans’ minds is: can Trump do it again?”
Read More“The 2020 election has raised questions about the security of US voting methods. President Trump has often pleaded for the American people to take caution when voting by mail due to the “incredible fraud” that occurs. In the past few weeks, doubt about election security was bolstered due to multiple controversies over ballot boxes in California.”
Read More“The pandemic has changed a lot about this year’s election — from how we vote to what we value — but perhaps the greatest change of all will come on Election Night. An influx of mail-in ballots means vote counting will be slower. The process could take days, maybe even weeks, and for the first time in a long time, November 3rd could come and go without an agreed upon winner.”
Read More“Regardless of the outcome, North Carolina will play a substantial role in the process. Whether North Carolina will lean to the right or to the left remains to be seen, however, this election will likely be a window into future elections and show how influential North Carolina is.”
Read More“The 2020 elections in new North Carolina districts could have a significant impact on both North Carolina and national politics while also providing a window to examine gerrymandering and its problems.”
Read More“Greece has made it clear that they are not open to letting in Syrian migrants. In addition to building a wall, Greece has fired tear gas at refugees, shot at the sea near dingeys, and recently suspended registration of asylum claims - a violation of 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees. The anti-refugee action in Greece has been supported across the EU, with the President of the European Commission describing Greece as Europe’s “shield” from refugees entering.”
Read More“Despite its lack of voter priority, climate change is one of the biggest threats to face the world, and political action is needed immediately to slow its shocking predictions. The United Nations Climate Panel warns that the world has until 2030 to prevent ‘irreversible damage from climate change.’ The five warmest Augusts have all occurred since 2015, evidently showing that the climate is warming, with the year 2020 on course to be the warmest year ever recorded. With the warmest year upcoming, it is crucial to highlight why climate change matters in the 2020 Election.”
Read More“By utilizing protests and social media, Millennials and Generation Z are pushing for their voice to be heard in this upcoming election. While this increased awareness has resulted in a great push for social change will younger generations’ influence be enough to sway the election one way or the other?”
Read More“Considering the origins and deployment of the very utterance “Law and Order,” it is clear that this slogan is used to tap into fears surrounding protests, crime, and nonwhite people, which subsequently justifies legislation that targets nonwhite communities. While law and order has been a big talking point for President Trump, it is unclear whether voters will buy his arguments or shift to Biden’s more pluralistic framework.”
Read More“From people losing their jobs to schools shutting down, there’s no question life has been turned upside down by the outbreak of COVID-19. And just as the virus has changed the way Americans go about their day to day lives, it has also reshaped the way we conduct elections. Now, as the nation looks toward reclaiming its future, how we vote and what we value has shifted greatly.”
Read More“Inspired by the protests in Hong Kong, Thailand has begun to revolt. What started as protests run by students at campuses steadily grew into a movement that touches on deeply-rooted problems in Thailand’s government, monarchy, and constitution.”
Read More“The issue of climate change was given a brief nod during the two 2020 presidential debates, though anyone looking for substantive answers or detailed plans was surely disappointed. Both Trump and Biden dodged direct questions dealing with fracking, fossil fuels, and the role of climate science. The differences between the two candidates on these issues are profound and have been the focus of many political jabs. Joe Biden has repeatedly stated that he will be a president who “believes in science” and that he will actually listen to what scientists tell him, unlike President Trump. At his MAGA rallies, the President has repeatedly assured his supporters that Biden supports the “radical, job-killing, Green New Deal.” Is this really the case?”
Read More“With a little more than a week left until Election Day, these Senate races are largely anyone’s game as both parties continue to push for last minute advertisements. This ‘green tsunami’ does not guarantee a win for Democratic challengers, but it does show that voters are paying attention and rallying around Democrats in their states and others.”
Read More“Many veteran organizers and voter rights activists have taken issue with the language and practice of Trump’s poll watchers and the militant-like operation he is encouraging. Regardless of the state laws on official poll watchers, voter intimidation is illegal nationwide. Pundits are worried that Trump’s encouragement of poll watchers might be understood by his supporters as an encouragement to intimidate voters.”
Read More“Last week, a damning set of emails and a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden were released into the public sphere. This discovery could prove harmful to the prospect of Joe Biden’s election. However, with the recent confirmation from the United States intelligence community that Russia and Iran have been actively meddling in the 2020 election, the validity of the Hunter Biden hard drive has come into question.”
Read More“The world’s most powerful and successful banks moving large networks of dirty money from the likes of drugs cartels and organized crime rings affiliates sounds like a plot taken straight from a Netflix original series. While such an idea might seem a little hard to conceptualize in real life, a recent Buzzfeed News investigation uncovered that many big name U.S. and international banks have been moving trillions of dollars for two decades in suspicious transactions, and in the process enriching themselves off the dirty money.”
Read More“While it may not be as attention grabbing as the tight race in Florida, with its history of hanging chads, or as intriguing as the races in Rust Belt Democratic strongholds that flipped for Trump last election cycle, North Carolina, with its 15 electoral votes, stands out as one of the most important battleground states of this election. The race in North Carolina is exceptionally close—within a polling error—and it could prove to be the consequential state that tips the election one way or the other. Given that, it’s no wonder that the Trump and Biden campaigns have spent so much time here in recent weeks attempting to turnout the vote.”
Read More“Last week’s Senate hearings for the Supreme Court appointment of Judge Amy Coney Barrett have re-ignited the contentious debate on the role of the Supreme Court in contemporary American politics. The nominee has tried to cement herself as an impartial figure throughout the hearings. When pressed by Senator Dian Feinstein about her views on abortion, for example, Barret responded “if I express a view on a precedent one way or another, whether I say I love it or I hate it, it signals to litigants that I might tilt one way or another on a pending case.” This interaction highlights a pair of key questions when it comes to the Supreme Court: how much does individual political ideology influence Supreme Court justices and is the Supreme Court actually nonpartisan?”
Read More“Steeped in a bedlam of uncertainty and fear over how intensely a hard exit from the European Union (EU) will crater the UK’s economy, the center of the world’s financial services industry stares at a recession that could dramatically shrink the might of one of the most powerful nations in the world.”
Read More“The International Monetary Fund’s newest estimate is that the global economy will shrink 4.4% in 2020: the worst annual drop since the Great Depression. Policy interventions such as unemployment benefits and paid-parental leave must be undertaken by countries around the world in order to help vulnerable populations. This will help ensure that this crisis does not contribute to a widening gender and intergenerational economic inequality.”
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