Keystone XL Rally
Christina Kirk writes: The morning of February 17th I awoke with a sense of excitement and purpose. This was no ordinary Sunday. It was a day of both personal and historic significance; my first ever rally, and the largest of its kind in the United States. The excitement built as we stopped at Metro Center. […]
Popular Protests in China: Rights and Resistance
Jiali Li writes: The 1989 Tiananmen crisis has led to a strong consensus among scholars that the resilience of the authoritarian regime in the PRC is approaching its limits. However, there has been no nation-wide riot that could demonstrate a potential breakthrough moment. In fact, the post-1989 popular protests and riots have experienced several stages […]
Arizona’s SB 1070: Politics and Consequences
Alexander Pittaro writes: Summary of Law With national immigration law emerging as one of the hot-button issues of 2013, now is a great time to examine the effects of more recent laws like Arizona’s SB 1070 in order to better understand immigration policy at the national level. Arizona’s controversial immigration law, Support Our Law Enforcement […]
Hagel
Praveen Mahendran writes: The potential appointment of Charles T. “Chuck” Hagel as Secretary of Defense, which is currently being debated on the Senate floor, has been a prominent headline. Former Senator Hagel is a Vietnam veteran who enlisted and earned two purple hearts for bravery. He began his life in politics under Republican Representative John […]
Environmental Risk without Economic Reward
Erin Noonan writes: When the EPA was created in 1970 , modern high volume hydraulic fracturing technology was non-existent. Due to lack of technology, older methods of natural gas extraction were overlooked by economic enterprises and could not be expanded to a competitive scale. With the passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974 […]
Tweeting from the C-SPAN Bus
The timing for my second blog post is ideal since I recently sat in on a Digital Services/New Media department meeting at C-SPAN. This department distributes electronic alerts to C-SPAN fans who have registered for them, manages and tracks Twitter feeds for various other departments within the company. It also implements live streaming of television […]
The Discipline of Seniority?
Sébastien Piednoir writes: The aim of this second blog post is for me to report back on the first steps of my investigation about the impact of the seniority system in the Senate on the level of party discipline in this same chamber. In order to get “fresh information” and hoping to make my topic […]
Journalism and Partisanship: Voices from the Field
Kyle Chang writes: In attempts at discovering the effects of social media on the traditional media: I began with the thought that social media would create feedback for traditional journalists and that the journalists would adapt to the political landscape as described by the social media; in effect, they would change the way they reported […]
Public Health in Authoritarian vs. Democratic Regimes
Malachi Nkosi writes: With a heavy shift in United States and international foreign policy, the world has slowly moved to a military age of not only combating terrorism but taking preemptive action by targeting the areas and climates in which terrorism begins and brews. A pattern that the world has taken into consideration is that […]
The Inconsistencies of Sanctions: Iran’s Story
Devin Hegelein writes: While those who ascribe to the traditional view of sanctions will tout the act as nearly fool-proof way to destabilize and punish a rogue state without the gruesomeness of full-on warfare, modern literature on the subject makes the final verdict on the effectiveness of sanctions debatable. A wealth of information exists on […]
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