On August 9, 1974, amidst the ongoing Watergate scandal — just a few days after the “smoking gun” tape was released, implicating President Richard Nixon in the crimes committed…
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) occurred in the blink of an eye. On Wednesday, March 8, SVB announced that it had sold $21 billion worth of securities, resulting…
The midterm elections were, overall, a poor performance for the Republican Party. According to FiveThirtyEight’s forecast, the most commonly predicted outcome was a 51-49 split in the Senate and a…
When Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister after a multitude of controversies, including a poor economic situation in the United Kingdom, the race to succeed him began within the Conservative…
The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change has set a 2030 deadline for global emissions to be reduced by half in order to avoid future climate catastrophe. As we march steadily…
In the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden triumphed over then-President Donald Trump in Virginia with a decisive ten-point victory. Looking at how Democrats have won the state in the…
A large part of Biden’s winning message in 2020 was of a shift away from Donald Trump’s unpredictable and often destructive behavior — a shift “back to normal.” Perhaps nowhere…
In early 2018, two Harvard political scientists — Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt — published How Democracies Die. Stretching over three hundred pages, the book's central theme discusses how democratically…
In March of 2003, as Senator Joe Lieberman — the controversial, independent-minded, pro-Iraq war, moderate Democrat from Connecticut — toured Tucson, Arizona, during his recently-announced presidential campaign, he encountered anti-war…
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has seen a rapid fall from grace in recent weeks, with dozens of lawmakers calling for his resignation. Photo courtesy of Artur Widak (via Vanity Fair).…