Effective Democracy
Effective Democracy
Liddy Boland and Bella Steedly
Two politically obsessed high school students give their take on the week's news and offer tips for other high school students about how to get involved in politics.
Presidential Primaries
britannica.com/topic/primary-election http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/ http://www.nytimes.com/news-event/2020-election --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Mar 13, 2020
21 min
The State of the Union
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Feb 15, 2020
9 min
Voter Registration
Voter Registration Link: https://olvr.votewa.gov/VoterIdentification.aspx Sources: https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2016/us-elections-2016-who-can-vote/index.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/women-voting-wyoming-150-years-here-how-state-celebrating-180971263/ https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/timeline/suffrage.htm https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/6-million-lost-voters-state-level-estimates-felony-disenfranchisement-2016/#II.%20Disenfranchisement%20in%202016 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Jan 30, 2020
12 min
Impeachment
Sources: These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/29/richard-nixon-was-not-impeached-despite-what-hillary-clinton-and-others-say/ https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/impeachment/clinton-impeachment-and-its-fallout https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/10/us/politics/articles-impeachment-document-pdf.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Jan 21, 2020
13 min
The Draft
Registration Link: https://www.sss.gov/Registration/Register-Now/Registration-Form Sources: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/texas/txsdce/4:2016cv03362/1396506/59/ https://www.sss.gov/
Jan 9, 2020
9 min