Dr. Oz. Stacey Abrams. Tim Ryan. Lee Zeldin. If you had to take a bet today, you’d probably guess that those four individuals won’t win their races in the upcoming midterm elections.
— Noah Vinogradov
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Under the word “Democrat” in the dictionary should be a picture of Governor Terry McAullife. A vault of stories, insights, and legislative history of politics past and present, he is eager to share with all who ask. Currently a Fall 2022 fellow at Georgetown’s Institute of Politics and Public Service, the former Virginia governor hosts a weekly discussion group focusing on how to govern a state. Luckily for students, there is not much the alumnus of Georgetown University does not know about campaigning, running a government and the Democratic party.
— Kathryn Chavez
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Initiative 82 will be on the ballot for Washington, D.C. voters this election. If passed, this measure would gradually increase the minimum wage for employees classified as “tipped workers,” such as restaurant servers, bartenders, nail salon workers and other service industry employees, to match the minimum wage established for all other employees by D.C. law.
—Meriam Ahmad
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With a conservative majority on the nation’s highest court, the Supreme Court stripped away the federal protections for abortion in the decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization earlier this year. Amid the expected outrage from large swaths of the nation’s population, the Democratic party seized the opportunity to leverage the fervor into voter turnout.
—Arjun Narayan
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Barnard University, a sister school of Columbia University, recently released a plan to grant students access to on-campus abortion pills as a part of their free student healthcare plan. After the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade—the United States’ Supreme Court case regarding universal abortion rights—access to abortions across the country have been more challenging to come by.
—Sophie Dalfonsi
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Staff writer Asher Maxwell created his own election forecast for the upcoming 2022 U.S. midterm elections. On November 8, 2022, millions of Americans will be voting, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate are up for grabs.
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Liz Truss resigned on the morning of October 20. In her mere 44 days as Prime Minister (the shortest of any Prime Minister in British history), Truss managed to crash the British economy, create yet another political crisis for Britain, and then promptly resign.
— Andrew Wong
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On his own accord at his Austin, Texas, October 2 concert, Styles stepped into the political arena. The singer endorsed Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rouke via a sticker on his guitar and featuring O'Rourke, who was at the concert, on the in-venue concert video feed to thunderous applause.
— Kathryn Chavez
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When Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Georgetown on Oct. 11, he acknowledged the herculean task the new Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act presents to him and his colleagues, while emphasizing the generational opportunity it provides to revitalize American infrastructure.
— Asher Maxwell
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On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered what will likely be regarded as among the most notorious speeches in modern history. His very first grievance in the address was perhaps the most critical, as he parroted a line long professed by ardent Russian foreign policy apologists: preventing NATO expansion.
— Zach Fotiadis
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Following President Biden’s signature of approval earlier last month, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has officially become the law of the land.
—Zach Fotiadis
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It is hard to see the first 15 months of Biden’s presidency as anything but a failure. However, it is hard to imagine things going differently for any other Democratic president. Biden’s presidency has been riddled with no win scenarios, difficult roadblocks, and inherited problems from previous administrations.
—Dustin Garza
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President Joe Biden and the Democratic party are faced with a historical storm of events as a world barely emerging from a pandemic is now reckoning with a war in Europe. These volatile global events have spurred an alarming rise in inflation, causing many Americans to feel as if Biden has fallen short of his promise to recover the economy.
— Angela Yu
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Tying countries together economically intended to construct a system for automatic and discretionary consequences for aggressive action. However, through the decades of relative international peace we have yet to see a successful, full-scale test of this ideology. Russia’s war on Ukraine highlights the failures of economically bonded world peace.
— Elizabeth Johnson
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During the past 50 years, US migration policy has been influenced by political agendas and fear instead of facts and human rights concerns. As a result, US politicians have demonstrated a lack of understanding regarding migration and the border region, which has had real consequences in the lives of migrants and on life in border communities.
—Katie Cooper
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Don’t Look Up was a disappointment. Not because it was a bad movie. It was fine—the performances all shine, it elicits laughs when it needs to, and there’s a strong plot throughout. My issue with it, however, is the social value it purports to convey.
— Atharv Gupta
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Rising from the grave of the 2021 Oregon legislative session comes HB 4002, a bill to grant farmworkers the right to overtime pay. Loved by the workers, and feared by farm owners, the resurrection and reconsideration of this bill has garnered national attention.
— Elizabeth Johnson
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Biden has had a lot on his plate recently, from worsening political gridlock, to women’s reproductive rights being increasingly restricted as well as the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis and an economy recovering from COVID-19. He had a lot of ground to cover in this historical event. Here is a list of the most memorable and notable moments from Biden’s address to the nation.
— Srishti Khemka
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At the first “Know You Power Forum” hosted by Georgetown’s Institute for Politics and Public Service, Rashida Jones shared valuable insights from her long career in journalism as the president of MSNBC and the first Black executive to lead a major news network.
— Angela Yu
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Justice Breyer has been in the majority for decisions that have granted gay marriage and upheld the Affordable Care Act, and his successor has big shoes to fill.
— Kathryn Chavez
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