During the turbulence of the last few months, faculty members connected with the Chicago Center on Democracy contributed to the public conversation about democracy in the United States. Below are some of the recent news stories.
Stories that reference interviews with Susan Stokes, faculty director of CCD:
- How to fix democracy: Move beyond the two-party system, experts say (Washington Post, 3/1/21)
- Trump’s Senate impeachment trial is over, again. But the 2020 election? Not yet. (USA Today, 2/15/21)
- What’s left of the ‘mainstream’ Republican party is looking around and getting nervous (Talking Points Memo, 2/5/21)
- The Capitol insurrection was decades in the making (Talking Points Memo, 1/29/21)
- Trump leaves America at its most divided since the Civil War (CNN, 1/19/21)
- Trump es muy celoso de su propio poder y su juego es nunca pedir perdón (El Comercio, 1/14/21)
- ‘He will do his duty’: How loyalty led to conflict for Mike Pence (Christian Science Monitor, 1/12/21)
- What is a coup? (WGN9, 1/7/21)
- Zimmer addresses DC riots; political scientists call for Trump’s removal (Hyde Park Herald, 1/7/21)
- Is America experiencing a coup? (Quartz, 1/6/21)
- Pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol in bid to overturn election (WTTW, 1/6/21)
- The Republican Party is determined to erode democracy (The Cap Times, 12/29/20)
- Year of tumult in politics: 2020 changed the U.S., creating ‘a big fork in the road’ with challenges for Biden, Trump (USA Today, 12/28/20)
- GOP efforts to overturn election may do lasting harm to democracy, political scientists warn (Washington Post, 12/14/20)
- Trump, a Texas lawsuit, and democracy’s future (Christian Science Monitor, 12/11/20)
- It’s scary how many congresspeople are still backing Trump’s fight to remain president (Refinery29, 12/11/20)
- American democracy might just survive Trump — but no, “the system” isn’t working (Salon, 12/11/20)
- Republicans are going down a dangerous road (The Atlantic, 12/10/20)
- 37 Chicagoans’ mailed-in November ballots were sent on time but arrived too late to be counted (Chicago Sun-Times, 12/4/20)
Stories that cover Bright Line Watch’s surveys to monitor the state of U.S. democracy:
- Government professors find high polarization at Biden presidency’s onset (The Dartmouth, 3/2/21)
- Americans agree on the need for more COVID-19 relief (Government Executive, 3/2/21)
- Pro-Trump Republican secession rhetoric in Texas and elsewhere is more than a punchline (NBC News, 2/28/21)
- Republican and Democratic voters agree on one thing–the need for generous COVID-19 relief (EurekAlert!, 2/26/21)
- Democrats are more united today than the last time they passed major legislation (FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast, 2/22/21) – scroll to the point in which 17:06 remains
- Why Democrats aren’t fraidy cats anymore (Washington Post, 2/17/21)
- How long can democracy survive QAnon and its allies? (New York Times, 2/10/21)
- What you need to know about how many Americans condone political violence — and why (Washington Post, 1/11/21)
- Trump helped take extremist views from the fringes of society to a mob attacking the Capitol (FiveThirtyEight, 1/8/21)
- Are we entering a new era of political violence? (Vox, 1/7/21)
- How much did Trump undermine U.S. democracy? (Niskanen Center, 12/30/20)
- What all the secession talk really means (Politico, 12/21/20)
- What’s next for Trump voters who believe the election was stolen? (New York Times, 12/14/20)
- GOP efforts to overturn election may do lasting harm to democracy, political scientists warn (Washington Post, 12/14/20)
- A Kraken is loose in America (Washington Post, 12/11/2020)
- The big lie from Donald Trump (The Hill, 12/2/20)
- What does it mean if most Republican voters still think Biden lost? (University of Rochester Newscenter, 12/2/20)