I’m not sure if folks were paying attention to the news this week, but GOP officials in Tennessee took the profoundly undemocratic and unprecedented step today of expelling two Democratic State Representatives from office for simply engaging in peaceful protest in response to a recent mass shooting at a school in Nashville. Three Representatives, including […]
We will not be meeting in-person for class this week and our scheduled Midterm Speeches will be postponed until the Mon & Wed after Spring Break. Please see this Canvas announcement for details. Since we will not be meeting for class, I am asking everyone to complete coursework asynchronously via the web this week. Everyone will […]
U.S. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv and condemned what he called Moscow’s “brutal” assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty. The speech is highly significant due to the nature of the visit as well as being delivered a few days before Putin’s State of the Union speech to the Russian government.