by Eloise Koscielny | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
On September 25, 2026, The Atlantic published Quinta Jurecic’s article, “The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come,” about President Donald Trump’s recent fight with the White House press. Just one day earlier, a federal judge had ordered the White House to restore access...
by Isabelle Frazier | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
Trump’s March 2026 executive order on mail voting is best understood as constitutional hardball, in Levitsky and Ziblatt’s sense, rather than as ordinary election-security policy. It is dangerous because it moves control over who may receive a ballot from...
by Sadie Kennedy | Apr 25, 2026 | Boston University
The US Supreme Court has used the shadow docket, a process to issue emergency orders, incessantly in the last few years. Since the start of Trump’s second term, this expedited process has been used to grant the president more than 20 victories on issues such as...
by April Aguilar | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
One of the most important cases of our current time is the discourse surrounding the Epstein files. Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier, was a convicted sex offender who ran a sex trafficking ring involving underage girls. The timeline of the Epstein case dates...
by Gracen Lashnits | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
As the United States and Iran come to a tentative ceasefire, President Trump and former MAGA podcasters can’t seem to do the same. The Make America Great Again, or “MAGA” movement has always relied heavily on the right-wing media ecosystem that propagates its...
