Politics

The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme on Oct. 27th.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for its efforts in combating hunger and improving global conditions for peace.

The presidential election results were projected on Nov. 7th, with former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris announced as the winners of the race. This news lead to various different reactions across the country and around the world.

Many aspects of the race for the White House have been thrown into uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic. Because of this global health emergency, most voters this year have received mail-in ballots.   

With the 2020 election underway, the climate crisis has proven itself to be a primary concern for many voters. As it stands, the world is on track to pass its “carbon budget” of 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, according to the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on climate change. 

This election, as the country casts their votes for President, New Jerseyans are also flipping over their ballots to decide the fate of marijuana legalization in their state—and the numbers are trending toward the referendum being passed.

The leaders of Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates met at the White House on Sep. 15 to sign a treaty recognizing Israel’s sovereignty and normalizing their relations with it. The treaty known as the Abraham Accords (after the Biblical/Koranic patriarch), marks the first time in decades that two Arab countries officially established diplomatic ties with Israel.  

The 2020 Election is taking place during a challenging time in America. Currently, the United States is facing three coinciding existential crises:  a pandemic that has stretched to every corner of the globe, the worst economy since the Great Depression, and a reckoning of racial injustice that has led to a polarizing perception of the issue of law and order.  

Judge of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Amy Coney Barrett, was nominated by President Trump for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on Saturday, Sept. 26.  Barrett graduated from Rhodes College and Notre Dame Law School. She taught at Notre Dame for 15 years and continues to teach part time. She is a […]

President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden engaged in the first of three scheduled presidential debates on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Faculty speculate that the frequent interruptions by Trump were a strategy to derail the debate and draw media attention, but it may not have worked in his favor.