As votes in key swing states trickle in, Augustana students share their thoughts on the 2020 election. This year differs from previous elections, even for first-time voters on campus, due to an influx...
Graphic by Tran Bui.
On Oct. 8 the vice presidential debate was much more civil than the previous week's presidential debate, but no more illuminating. It left me with more questions than answers, and...
Augustana College has organized a campaign called Vikings Vote that will run from Sept. 21 to Oct. 2 with the goal of educating students and encouraging them to vote.
Ashley Allen, interim director of...
The 2020 presidential election is rapidly approaching. People are wondering how we can all vote in this election without contributing to the spread of COVID-19. In the midst of the pandemic, voting by...
Young people (ages 18-29) have historically been the most underrepresented age demographic in every election for decades, yet we are the ones who have to live with the consequences of our politics for...
While Iowa Democrats are still trying to clean up their mess from the Iowa caucus discrepancies, New Hampshire proved that they could set the tone of the race for the Democratic nomination.
In New Hampshire,...
A people’s caucus was held on Sunday, Jan. 12 at Davenport North High School. All were welcome, and local residents asked questions to presidential candidates about current issues
Candidates Bernie Sanders...
Beto O’Rourke officially ended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president on Friday, Nov. 1. He was consistently in the top five Democratic hopefuls, and his sudden exit from the race makes...
On Friday Oct. 4, news broke that Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack.
The narrative of the 2020 race has largely been dominated by questions of who is too old to be president. But until now, the physical...
It’s clear that Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign popularized and normalized many progressive ideas such as a universal healthcare, and free public college tuition. However, Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur and...
With many of the Democratic candidates for 2020 advocating for free tuition in public college's, it's essential to ask what would this would mean for Augustana, as a small private liberal arts school.
Kent...
