Category: Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance
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Understanding Responsibility in the 2025 Government Shutdown
A Non-Partisan Look at Power, Process, and Shared Accountability On October 1, 2025, the United States federal government entered a partial shutdown—its first since 2018—after Congress and the President failed to reach agreement on either short-term or long-term funding measures. This latest impasse did not arise in isolation; rather, it emerged from years of deepening…
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Reframing the Devil’s Punchbowl: A Feminist Historiography of Memory, Trauma, and Survival
In the turbulent years following the American Civil War, the site known as the Devil’s Punchbowl near Natchez, Mississippi, has emerged in both historical discourse and popular memory as a locus of catastrophic suffering for newly freed African Americans. While accounts vary in their specifics, a general narrative holds that this bowl-shaped natural hollow was…