This year has seen several states adopt fetal “heartbeat” bills which would effectively ban abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy. Alex Garlick looks at why these bills are surfacing now, given that Roe v. Wade has been settled law for over 45 years. Drawing on a model of agenda setting, he argues that ambitious state legislators and Governors […]
This week the US Senate has been considering the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Senate Democrats stand in staunch opposition to Gorsuch, meaning that Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell is now considering taking the “nuclear option” so that the nominee can be confirmed with 51 – rather than 60 – votes. Alex Garlick writes that history […]
Most people would agree that political parties are one of the most important components of national politics. But this is not the case in local politics, where candidates tend to run as individuals without party affiliation in races that many voters fail to participate in. Alex Garlick argues that adding party labels to candidates may be beneficial for these […]
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Book Review: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Mona Oikarinen reviews Online Afterlives: Immortality, Memory and Grief in Digital Culture by Davide Sisto
Hannah Farrimond reviews New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives by Alex de Waal
Diego Castañeda Garza reviews China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption by Yuen Yuen Ang
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