Since President Donald Trump’s election, some political experts have wondered whether the quality of American democracy is in decline or close to being irrevocably damaged.
American democracy is in...
Today, March 3, is “Super Tuesday” when 14 states will hold their primary elections.
Many people are rightfully worried about their preferred candidate not getting nominated as the official Democratic...
Voting is one of the most direct ways to participate in democracy. This election season, make sure your vote is an educated one.
UVM is a politically engaged campus. Democrats, Republicans and Progressives...
Democrats scored key victories across the country in statewide elections earlier this month.
They captured the governorships of Louisiana and Kentucky and flipped the Virginia Senate from red to blue,...
Usually, Twitter has the best memes and funny videos in real time.
But on Nov. 10, my Twitter feed became overwhelmed by a tragic world event: the coup against President of Bolivia Evo Morales.
Regardless...
If the last SGA elections taught us anything, it’s that UVM students are all about democracy.
Seeing how widespread political involvement is on campus, UVM’s rigid policies on political activity are...
Election season has ended, and the freshman Congresspeople have been sworn in. Whether you voted for them or not, they're laying out plans for the issues on which they’ve been campaigning.
The sense...
The survivors of the Parkland shooting came to speak Oct. 19 in Burlington. While addressing a crowd gathered in the First Universalist Church, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and Alex Wind spoke about the importance...
Does protesting matter to a government that doesn’t listen to its people?
Thousands of people across the nation gathered in protest of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the supreme court. UVM students...
The polls open for many of our state and local midterms Nov. 6.
As we enter this election season, people all over the country are starting to feel the pressures of voter turnout. But because news media...
When we all return to campus next semester, the air will most likely be a little cleaner. A tobacco ban, as you all read on the front page and from President Sullivan in your inbox last week, will most...
As April 20 approaches, thousands of people will publicly smoke marijuana.It is time for this annual display of civil disobedience to become a sustained political movement for social and economic justice. Marijuana...
