In an event titled “Civil Discourse in the Disinformation Age,” the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy hosted former U.S. Representative Tim Ryan. Ryan, who served in Congress for...
Saturday morning in Centennial Park is characteristically busy. Tucked among the morning hustle this past Saturday, Oct. 22, a group of active citizens—including a handful of Vanderbilt students—gathered...
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As a child, Nashville native Odessa Kelly never imagined she’d be involved in politics. Now, she’s the progressive Democrat running for Congress in Tennessee's District...
The start of 2022 marks a checkpoint in the political cycle, with deadlines approaching for states to redraw their congressional districts following the updated population figures of the 2020 census released...
In a time where the Democratic party holds control over the Legislative Branch, it would seem that now is the time for those in power to assert themselves for years into the future. However, lingering...
For the past 22 years, the two Kentucky seats in the United States Senate have been controlled by Republicans. The two current senators—Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul—have held...
According to prominent migrant advocate Irineo Mujica, a Haitian caravan will depart for the U.S. border from Southern Mexico around October 25th whether the migrants have their travel papers or not. Mujica...
For most Democrats on Capitol Hill, mention of Senators Manchin or Sinema conjures a single, jarring image— a human roadblock. And that’s no exaggeration. The two Democratic senators,—representing...
As lawmakers continue to push President Biden’s infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion social spending plan through Congress, many details of Biden’s agenda remain up in the air. While the $3.5 trillion...
It has been almost a decade since former Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas), perhaps the most prominent figure in American libertarianism during the 21st century, announced his second run for the Republican...
With millions of working-class Americans eagerly waiting to see if Biden could follow through on his campaign promise to raise the federal minimum wage, Mar. 5 was in line to become a watershed moment...
A filthy cache of transphobia has revealed itself in discourse surrounding and adjacent to the Equality Act, a bill passed in the House on Feb. 25 to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and...
