2-page, double-spaced paper c 2 page, double spaced paper comparing and contrasting readings of your choosing from the week comparing and contrasting readings of your choosing from the week. 
Reading Sources:
Power and Entrenchment
Matto Mildenberger and Leah Stokes, “No, We Didn’t Almost Solve the Climate Crisis in the 1980s,” Mischiefs of Faction, August 6, 2018.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic,June 2014.
Paul Starr, “Starr Racial Slavery as an Entrenchment Contradiction ” in Starr, Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies(New Haven: Yale University Press), 2019, pp. 66-104.
Jonathan Swan, Shane Goldmacher and Maggie Haberman, “How Trump Has Used Fear and Favor to Win Republican Endorsements,”  The New York Times, January 4th, 2024.
Making and Breaking Coalitions
William Riker, “Chauncey Depew and the Seventeenth Amendment ,” in Riker, The Art of Political Manipulation (New Haven: Yale University Press), 1986, pp. 10-17.).
Jonathan Weisman, “Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue,” The New York Times, Jan. 9th, 2024.