Political science, not political science-fiction. A student-run magazine at Binghamton University.
The influence of moneyed interest in elections has become increasingly relevant in American politics over the past twenty years. This influence has reached new levels of concern in the second Trump Administration; over thirty different wealthy campaign donors, who collectively contributed hundreds of millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election campaign, have been appointed to key positions in his Cabinet.
The United States Government is around $36,220,000,000,000 in debt as of April 2025, according to figures calculated by the US Treasury. The figure is immense, exceeding America’s 2023 gross domestic product by trillions. The sheer scale of the debt informs why reducing it has been one of the current Trump Administration’s largest stated goals in their policy agendas so far.
The idea that gentrification caused a decrease in crime is a misdiagnosis. D.C.’s crime went down in 2024, but there has been a significant overall surge from pre-pandemic numbers in the past few years. This has fueled a prevalent public perception of D.C. as being overrun with crime.
For a majority of Americans, no policy has had more of an impact on livelihood than employment contracts. Employment contracts lay out all terms and conditions regarding workers filling a certain position at a given firm, such as wages, job responsibilities, and terms of employment.
As European states evolved into their modern forms, the developments made in statecraft shifted diplomacy away from monopoly-based imperial competition towards the maintenance of a shared hegemony over globe-spanning colonial holdings.
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