Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Ideal of Judicial Independence
The first qualification of judges is often an ability to serve as an apolitical arbiter of laws and rights, insulated from the tumult of politics, at least in republics predicated More
Party Problems in the US: How Will Progressive Democrats Respond to Increasing Isolation?
Build Back Ever? In December, United States Senator Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat representing the state of West Virginia, gave President Joe Biden and Democratic leadership in Congress some very More
The US Midterm Elections and the Different Temporal Orientations of the Centre and the Left
While midterm elections usually promise a whooping for the president’s party and agenda, the 2022 United States midterms are shaping to continue the power struggle between the center and the More
Redistricting in the United States: How it Might Influence Control of the House
“We have decided to win, and that’s what we’ll do,” was how a defiant Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, responded to a question regarding the Democratic Party’s More
Opinion: The Strategic Pitfall with the Democrats’ Approach to Abortion
It is too early to tell how history will judge the Trump presidency. However, one thing is already clear: Trump will be remembered for initiating an unprecedented conservative transformation of More
Op-Ed: How Do You Solve a Problem like White Women?
This op-ed presents only the opinion of the author and is not an endorsement from the McGill Journal of Political Studies, nor the McGill Political Science Students’ Association. I’m addicted More
A Lion in Lamb’s Clothing? Conor Lamb and the Future of the Democratic Party
A special election in Pennsylvania has dominated the news cycle for the past week. The election was extraordinary in several ways. Firstly, the Democratic candidate ran on a centrist, bipartisan More