Opinion: Making New Year's Resolutions for 2024? Here are 4 that can save our democracy.
NJ.com published a New Year's Day op-ed from Eagleton Institute director Elizabeth Matto, Ph.D.
"As we look ahead to a new year, democracy’s future deserves our attention. Across the globe, we are bearing witness to incomprehensible suffering as wars rage and democratic systems of government buckle and fail to meet humanity’s needs."
Opinion: The History The Nikki Haley Could Make
Forbes shared a recent op-ed from Kelly Dittmar, Ph.D., Director of Research and Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics.
"Hillary Clinton became the first woman, 16 years ago, to ever win a major party’s presidential nominating contest for the purpose of delegate selection. On January 8, 2008, she finished first in the New Hampshire Democratic primary with 39.1% of the vote, followed by Barack Obama with 36.5% of votes cast. While Clinton did not win the Democratic nomination that year, she did win nominating contests in 23 states and territories. In 2016, when she became the first woman to win a major-party nomination for president, Clinton won 34 nominating contests. While other women have run for president since Clinton first made history, no others have earned the plurality of votes in any state’s primary or caucuses."
Opinion: We Should Not Keep From Trump From Running -- But It Would Be Disastrous If He Wins
The Messenger shared an op-ed from John J. Farmer, Director of the Miller Center on Policing and Community Resilience
"Like many Americans, I begin 2024 worried about the state and future of our republic. As an independent, who floats freely among the ideological information ecosystems out there, it is easy to see long-term threats to democracy everywhere, from foreign interference to conspiracy theorists to a horribly misshapen public square guiding a horribly misinformed public. On the short horizon of 2024, however, my concerns over the health of our republic distill to two: first, that former President Donald Trump will be precluded from running, and second, that if he is allowed to run, he will actually win." |