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How will native universities be tackling Trump this fall? A sampling of catalog choices:
US Democracy in Disaster
Schar College of Coverage and Authorities, George Mason College
Jennifer Nicoll Victor has taught the course earlier than, however this yr she’s altering it to mirror how, as she says, “the US has moved to a regime sort that isn’t categorized as democracy.” Readings will seemingly embrace a Vox article about life in authoritarian international locations and a chunk that Victor wrote for the web publication the Dialog about how the US is transferring in that course.
The Presidency
Middle for Superior Governmental Research, Johns Hopkins College
America has entered a “presidentialist period” says this class’s professor, Benjamin Ginsberg. The course will look into how the chief department has become extra important in US tradition and politics through the second Trump administration.
The American Presidency
Division of Political Science, George Washington College
Lecturer Michael Goff says his course will discover, in practically actual time, the “present controversies and disruptions” and the “influence and dysfunctionality of the Trump administration and the chance for its success long run.”
This text seems within the Might 2025 situation of Washingtonian.