In recent times, the Tennessee GOP's legislative focus seems fixated not on issues of pressing concern to its citizens, but rather on an unexpected target: vegetables. Yes, you read that correctly. From...
On February 27th, former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam visited PSCI 3893: "American Democracy and Dissent" at Wilson Hall to answer questions about his term as governor and give his insights on democracy...
The greatest fear of any college student is not having a job upon graduation. While many Vanderbilt students look to land positions in large job markets like New York and California, they shouldn’t neglect...
Tennessee's newest abortion laws and the likely impending Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Mississippi will decimate health care availability for women and children in Tennessee—especially for people...
“It's better to try and work out problems and better to remain civil,” was Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally’s response to the question about how working across the political aisle at the...
Starting next year, Nashville may do something it has not done in well over a century: elect a Republican to Congress.
This is not because the politics of the strongly Democratic-leaning city will...
Note: The following anonymous piece of writing was procured by VPR when a manila envelope containing a longer version of the article in an incomprehensible scrawl was slipped under...
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.,...
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...
In the week leading up to Mar. 4, the Tennessee state prison system reported 16 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. These cases have brought the prison total to 6,541 recoveries and 42 deaths. Of the 42 deaths,...
Though the majority of the election spotlight has shone upon the candidates representing the Democratic and Republican parties, those candidates were not the only winners and losers coming out of election...
Amidst the uncertainties and hyper-partisan polarization that erupted on the national stage following an extended absentee ballot count last Tuesday, it can be easy to overlook the developments that took...
