A look at how the United States’ system of checks and balances is designed to work and its current challenges. By Dr. Michael Kryzanek | April 28, 2025 One of the fundamental concepts that students learn in a civics class is that our constitutional system is based on the principle of checks and balances.
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By Dr. Michael Kryzanek | June 14, 2024 There is growing sentiment among the American people and scholars of our democratic system that the governmental structure created by the Constitution is in crisis if not irrevocably broken. Partisan bickering leading to endless two-party deadlock, the undemocratic nature of the Electoral College, growing restrictions on
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Participating in a democratic society is not supposed to be a matter of dollars and cents, but indeed democracy has become a costly venture. Billions and billions of dollars are spent every election period to pay for the campaigns of those running for office at the local, state and national level. Unfortunately, injecting money into
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This blog title is not designed to capture your attention with negativity or ridicule our level of education as a people, but rather to show how far too many Americans fail to understand or appreciate our current political and economic condition. Recent data from reliable sources point out that large segments of the public either
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Deciphering the Electoral College, the system that elects the United States president. By Dr. Michael Kryzanek | January 8, 2024 One of the more confusing structures of our constitution is the Electoral College. While most democracies in the world elect their chief executive by a majority of the popular vote, in the United States the
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Most Americans have a general knowledge of the Presidents who have led this country, perhaps not everyone of the 46 Presidents, but the most famous or controversial. Our first President, George Washington, is recognized as the “Father of our Country”; Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the “Great Unifier” during the Civil War; Franklin Roosevelt
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The opening words of our constitution — the Preamble — is really a job description by the American people that lays out the goals and responsibilities of the newly formed government. The Preamble as presented states the following: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
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JFK’s secret doomsday bunker on Nantucket, which was designed to provide temporary shelter from radioactive fallout, could become a National Historic Landmark—but efforts to preserve its history have stalled. Full Article
A massive bust of John F. Kennedy was installed in the East Aldine community Wednesday. It was created by well-known sculptor David Adickes, who is 95. The statue is a part of a project the community calls "JFK on JFK." You can find it at the intersection of John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Aldine Bender Road,
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Congratulations to the Biden Administration, several major social media services, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the Anti-Defamation League and other organizations for joining forces to combat the spread of extremist verbal and political violence in American society. The stakes for our democracy could not be higher, and all of us as citizens will have
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