President Donald Trump was sworn into office this January as part of a promise to make the United States “woke no longer”. Using the word “woke” synonymously with left-wing indoctrination, his administration has promised to purge all “woke” remnants from our country’s schools, companies, and even its institutions. Democrats have responded to these movements with […]
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TW: SVSH – People Are Dying: The Effect of Abortion Bans in Red States
“With sorrow … we dissent.” Those biting words were written two years ago by liberal Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan in response to the 2022 overturning of the 32-year-old precedent of Roe Vs. Wade, a landmark decision that constitutionalized the right to abortions. A woman’s right to choice and privacy […]
Transgender Identities v. The GOP
Every June, millions of people gather and dance down metropolitan streets to upbeat club music, donning rainbows and shimmering in a rain of glitter and confetti. A pride parade is a valentine to the LGBTQ+ community and a commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that catalyzed the Gay Liberation Movement. Many parades this year focused […]
The Democratic Party is Untenable
The United States stands at the precipice of so many crises that I cannot hope to list them all here. We seem intent to drive straight off the cliff of imminent climate catastrophe. Our healthcare and education systems balloon in costs, run by and for profit-seeking middlemen rather than the interests of the people that […]
Floundering California Republicans Search for Answers in a Changing State
Since Washington’s presidency, American politics has functioned according to a two-party system. Although Democrats and Republicans wax and wane, compromise, shift positions, and trade viewpoints, the two parties have been among the longest-standing pillars of American political ideology. However, in California, this time may be coming to an end. California Republicans’ power has dwindled to […]
Jerry Brown’s Last Hurrah
By Jacob Ganz The following article was written for Berkeley Political Review as part of a monthly collaboration with Davis Political Review. Jerry Brown is California’s indomitable winner. For over five decades, Brown has been an indelible presence in politics. Now, as he enters the last months of his final term as governor, he faces the last […]
A Republican Boycott: the Silver Bullet for a Trumpist America?
In their recent Atlantic article, veteran editors and staunch independents Jonathan Rauch and Benjamin Wittes argue for a non-negotiable, straight ticket vote for the Democratic Party in an effort to reset the GOP from what they perceive to be the “Trumpism virus”; Trumpism defined as the right-leaning, norm-breaking, anti-establishment, nationalist movement that has emerged. Their […]
GOP Going Green: The Power of Economics and National Security on Republican Support for Renewables
By Alexander Casendino On Feb. 26th, 2015, Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, a climate change skeptic, decided to put an end to the global warming debate once and for all using a peculiar prop to convey his message on the Senate floor: a snowball. According to Inhofe, it was simply too cold outside for man-made […]
Eric Cantor or Eric “Can’t Win”?
It didn’t matter that David Brat was an unknown economics professor. It wasn’t enough that Eric Cantor had spent nearly $5.4 million on his campaign. And it certainly made no difference that Cantor branded himself as a preacher of the Republican Creed. On the evening of July 10, 2014, Eric Cantor made congressional history, becoming […]
Kamala Harris: A Bid For Boxer’s Seat
On Thursday, January 8, 2015, California Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will be retiring following the end of her term, leaving the first open California Senate seat since 1992, The Year of the Woman. Boxer’s leave has nothing to do with her age, she informed viewers of that she is leaving the Senate to return […]