Gillian Stingley, Meeting Managing and Features Editor
• November 10, 2022
With 60% of Democrats not favoring Elrich in the primary, Montgomery County residents are now left wondering: are our county elections truly functioning with the voter in mind?
On February 24, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1557, a law that many activists have dubbed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. The bill forbids public school teachers in Florida from teaching...
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral districts in order to benefit one political party or candidate over others. Although gerrymandering is often considered to be a Republican issue, Maryland’s 2012 Congressional districts, which heavily favor Democratic candidates, gives it the honor of being tied for the most gerrymandered state in the country. In fact, Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District (Figure 1), which has been compared to a “blood splatter from a crime scene” and a “broken-winged pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state,” is considered by the Washington Post to be the second most gerrymandered district in the United States.
After urgently searching for her son, Mrs. Das found his beaten body scattered in a pond near their local temple. Twenty-one-year-old Pranta Chandra Das was staying at his Hare Krishna temple in the Noakhali district of Bangladesh when it was attacked by a raging mob. His life was one of many that had been taken in these religious clashes.
State and local elections decide much of your day-to-day life, including everything from choosing school curriculums to fixing neighborhood potholes. However, these elections have historically lower engagement...
It is the general consensus among the American public that children belong at school. The benefits are seemingly endless: receiving an education, being safe and protected, and acquiring the skills necessary for success and prosperity in the future. Yet so often is it taken for granted that children are able to get to school at all; so ingrained is it in the routines of most American school children and their families that the bus will pick them up from their streetcorner in the morning, deposit them at school, and drop them home again in the afternoon. But what are the benefits for the bus drivers?
"As already seen in these two addresses and the violent reactions to Trump’s rhetorical strategies, language is one of, if not the most, powerful force in politics and society today."
On September 18th, 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed. Her death followed a packed career full of substantial legal accomplishments and precedents set, and both her life and death impacts...
The summer of 2020 was an exceedingly turbulent time in the United States: an ongoing global pandemic, a hazy political climate, the killing of countless Black Americans at the hands of police, and, as a result, a refreshed sense of social awareness that sparked petitions, protests, and cries for change. One institution that responded to the calls for progress away from the racism present in the United States was the Washington Football Team.
The concept of a face mask, an effortless yet inhibitory measure, has evolved into a massive debate between Republicans and Democrats in the United States.
