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...
With general elections just around the corner, candidates across the nation are busily making their case for why they should be given a place in the halls of Congress. Tennessee’s 7th District is seeing...
In the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump cemented a trend that his “old pal” Ronald Reagan had begun to pave following his landslide victory over Jimmy Carter in 1980:
Evangelicals vote...
In early March, the Senate confirmed Michael Regan as the sixteenth Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He brings years of experience in environmental justice and regulation to an agency...
Tennessee is not merely a red state, it is bright crimson. What was once the embodiment of late 20th-century “Southern Centrism,” electing Blue Dog Democrats for the House (such as Henry Ford Jr.,...
Members of the Vanderbilt College Republicans (VCR) and Vanderbilt College Democrats (VCD) took to the virtual last week, participating in a time-honored tradition of both organizations: the annual policy...
A conservative movement emerged in 2002 citing a need for lower taxes, a reduction in the national debt, and advocating for decreased government spending. It started as a website, USTeaParty.com, which...
Democratic Senate candidates entered the 2020 election season with dreams of taking back the Senate majority, buoyed by some of the largest campaign fundraising totals in history. They left with defeats...
As Tuesday draws near, the Vanderbilt Political Review wants to share our thoughts, opinions, and concerns regarding the upcoming election. Below are brief responses from our writers that encapsulate the...
Following his sixth consecutive term as a Kentucky Senator, Mitch McConnell faces his toughest re-election bid yet. The 78-year-old Republican senator must defeat the Democratic nominee, Amy McGrath, in...
Tennessee’s State House District 49, located just outside of Nashville in the Smyrna area and surrounding suburbs, is one of the most crucial races in the upcoming 2020 elections. In a country ravaged...
Meredith Mattlin, a Vanderbilt graduate, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination in Tennessee’s fifth congressional district. The TN-5 district encompasses the Vanderbilt campus, as well as surrounding...
