by Connor Weathers | Oct 25, 2020 | Suffolk University
Americans are not as polarized as we think we are. A new report from Beyond Conflict, a non-profit that leverages research from cognitive and behavioral science to address issues of conflict resolution, reconciliation and social change, finds that Democrats and...
by Mariana Paez | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
On January 29, 2019, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and other intelligence agency leaders appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee to present their findings on the major security threats facing the United States, particularly Russia’s ongoing...
by Darcy Kuang | Oct 24, 2020 | University of Chicago
In the 2016 U.S Presidential election, approximately 33 million voters cast their ballots by mail, which accounted for one quarter of all ballots cast. With the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of Americans are expected to vote by mail this year. According...
by Andrew Olivei | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In their seminal work How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify two principal constitutional guardrails that, they argue, have allowed democracy to survive in the United States even in light of constitutional imperfections: mutual toleration and...
by Niko Rodriguez | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
It is clear that increasing partisanship correlates with democratic erosion. Matthew Graham and Milan Svolik, in a candidate-choice experiment, found that US voters who identified with a certain party were more likely to choose a candidate from the same party in spite...
