Jenna Spinelle articles

spinelle jenna Jenna Spinelle is the communications specialist for the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State and host of the podcasts When the People Decide and Democracy Works.

Rural Broadband And The Politics Of Good Enough

COVID-19 showed… how essential high-speed Internet is to our everyday lives… Yet, millions… do not have reliable [broadband] access.

The Inflation Reduction Act[’s] passage shines a light on the administrative state. How will the billions,…other provisions…[become] policy?

It’s no secret that there’s a partisan divide in the media, but thus far, solutions to bridge that divide have been few and far between.

Jake Grumbach’s book “Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics” is out now from Princeton University Press.

Democracy does not have a singular definition, which is one of the things that makes it so interesting to me — and undoubtedly to many of you.

Several activists and average citizens have changed their communities and the country by taking important issues directly to votes.

The summer will be legally and politically charged particularly with the January 6 committee hearings scheduled to begin June 9.

Universal voting would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens.

Older and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole skew gray-haired, and within the Democratis, the left-leaning youth vote.

We love a good debate — and have certainly had plenty of them on this show. But how effective are they in today’s media and political landscape?