The White House has come to rely on unilateral powers to make policy. Is that good for democracy?
“I think people are responding to something that’s existential," the Karsh Institute's Melody Barnes told a crowd gathered to hear expert analysis of the 2024 presidential election. "People are feeling a threat that isn’t just, ‘Oh, this kind of bothers me.’ It is a sense of threat to who they are, their sense of security,” she said.
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“The Trump presidency speaks to the depth of the marginalization felt by those who believe they have been in the cultural wilderness for too long and their faith in the one person who has given voice to their frustration and his ability to center them in American life,” said Melody Barnes, the executive director of the Karsh Institute.
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Columnist David Brooks writes about the recent American Enterprise Institute study from Sam Pressler, a Karsh Institute practitioner fellow, that found that 24 percent of people who graduated from high school at most have no close friends.
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"It is the president alone who must make the final decision and who will be held accountable. It is no wonder that almost every occupant of the Oval Office has left with far more gray hair," wrote Karsh Institute Executive Director Melody Barnes.
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Executive Director Melody Barnes joins CBC's American Roundtable to break down the final campaign stops ahead of election day in the United States.
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A public life serving democracy brings surprising rewards: An interview with Melody Barnes, executive director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia.
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Executive Director Melody Barnes explains how a public life serving democracy brings surprising rewards.
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David Nemer with the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab joined the Good Disruption podcast ahead of the U.S. Presidential Election to discuss how culture and trust plays a critical role in the acceptance of electronic voting and the need to protect the entire electoral process from beginning to end.
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At a Karsh Institute event, an emotional Abigail Spanberger (VA-7) tells an audience gathered in UVA's Rotunda that it's incumbent upon lawmakers to restore the public's trust in government.
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“I don’t think there is any country in the world that has more stuff projected on to it than Haiti,” says Laurent Dubois, academic director at the Karsh Institute of Democracy.
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