On the Other Hand: On Ranked Choice Voting

Background: On June 24, 2025, New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani overcame frontrunner former Governor Andrew Cuomo to win the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City. While Mamdani secured a clear plurality from the outset, New York City’s application of ranked choice voting (RCV), also known as an instant-runoff system, saw vote tabulations […]

On the Other Hand: On the Current Government Shutdown

On Oct. 1, as congressionally allocated funding for the federal government ran out amid a battle between the parties over current spending levels, the first government shutdown in nearly seven years set in. For more than three weeks, thousands of federal workers have been forced to either continue working or be furloughed, as the government […]