Policy analyst Jade Vasquez examines Florida’s felony disenfranchisement system, focusing on how financial and legal barriers continue to restrict voting rights for formerly incarcerated individuals despite the passage of Amendment 4. The article argues that policies like SB 7066 disproportionately burden low-income Black and Latinx communities, ultimately concluding that Florida’s current system undermines equal protection and democratic participation.

Policy analyst Saoirse O’Lionain examines the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act, focusing on efforts to narrow the legal definition of “harm” by excluding habitat destruction from federal protections. The article ultimately argues that weakening habitat protections would undermine the ESA’s purpose and threaten endangered species recovery efforts across the country.

Policy analyst Nate Watts examines political polarization today through the lens of the past, asking what insight the Civil War and our founding fathers have for the situation we as highly polarized Americans face in 2025. Nate also touches on recent examples of political violence, and how wisdom from America’s history can guide us through it.

Policy analyst Katherine Ferenchick investigates the motives of Pam Bondi and Donald Trump, who promised the public a release of the long-awaited Epstein files. Yet when the time came, with Bondi in charge of the Department of Justice as Attorney General, and Trump as President, no action was taken. Why? This is the question that this piece aims to answer.