Election Week 2020

The legal voting age in the United States of America has been 18 since 1971 when it was lowered from 21. In recent years, though, many citizens have pushed for the voting age to be lowered to 16 instead.  At age 16, teenagers can have jobs and pay taxes that support our communities, and at age 17, with parental consent, can join the U.S military. So if they can be legally involved in these way...

For the past 17 years of my life, I thought my entire family had the same beliefs as me. I figured that my grandparents were progressive like me, that my aunts and uncles wanted to see the same change I do, and that my parents and I valued the same things. After an eye-opening conversation about politics I had with my family over the summer, I realized my perfect-image of them was far from the truth....

In contemporary politics, those running for public office must face the reality of everything they’ve said and done being unearthed by their opponents. While it has become a custom for both presidential candidates to conduct opposition research on each other, it’s important for American voters to conduct candidate research of their own. Political consultant and chief strategist for former President B...

Leading up to the 2020 election, the effort to reel in first-time voters kicked into high gear. Politicians, campaign volunteers, and ordinary citizens dedicated immense quantities of time to knock on doors, phonebank and spread the word over social media about how important voting is. Websites like I Will Vote, a platform that urges people to create a voting plan, have been popular references in thes...

With the election right around the corner, many have taken to social media to push others to vote. While much of this has been advocating for specific candidates, a broader push for voting has been the byproduct of social media. Specifically popular social media apps, such as Snapchat and Instagram, are pushing teens to vote by giving people resources to check their registration and informing peop...

This election cycle’s Democratic primaries were a nightmare for the left — unless you supported Joe Biden, but in that case, were you really on the left? Dozens of candidates dropped out before the field was narrowed down to a few major players. Most centrists and moderate liberals threw their support behind moderate liberal politicians: Pete Buttigieg and Biden were some of the most common. O...