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Honors 200: Left, Right, Center: Bridging the Political Divide

Information resources to research ideologies across the political spectrum in the United States

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Class example articles

Group 1 

Carson, S. and Barrett, V. (2025, September 29). Dairy powerhouse shaken by ICE arrests - Uncertainty for farms as 21 detained in Manitowoc. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. A1. Available from NewsBank: Access World News: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/1A3694E3CE0EDC98. 

Courser, Z., Helland, E., & Miller, K. P. (Eds.). (2018). Parchment barriers: Political polarization and the limits of constitutional order. University Press of Kansas. JK305. P366 2018 

Ulloa, J., McCann, A., & Medina, J. (2025, Sep 29). ‘I’m from here!’: U.S. citizens are ending up in Trump’s dragnet. New York Times. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/i-m-here-u-s-citizens-are-ending-up-trump-dragnet/docview/3255530821/se-2 

Group 2 

Copp, T., & Robertson, N. (2025, Oct 04). U.S. kills 4 alleged drug smugglers near Venezuela, Hegseth says. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/u-s-kills-4-alleged-drug-smugglers-near-venezuela/docview/3256931763/se-2 

Druckman, J. N., Klar, S., Krupnikov, Y., Levendusky, M., & Ryan, J. B. (2022). (Mis)estimating Affective Polarization. Journal of Politics, 84(2), 1106–1117. https://doi.org/10.1086/715603 

Seligman, L., & Bergengruen, V. (2025, Oct 04). President escalates campaign of boat strikes. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.lib.uwm.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/president-escalates-campaign-boat-strikes/docview/3256961152/se-2 

Group 3

Geraghty, J. (2025). Who’s shrinking whom? National Review, 77(8), 17–20. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=397e9557-7391-3213-9cea-a2822569eedb 

Silverman, J. (2025). Following the Musk money. Nation, 321(3), 38–43. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=47749f27-ca3a-34a5-b46c-3ab167dcb806 

Törnberg, P. (2022). How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(42), e2207159119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2207159119 

Group 4 

Epstein, W. N. & Robertson, C. (2025, October 7). Health insurance subsidy standoff pits affordable care for millions against federal budget constraints. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAI.sw3xg3t77 

Roberts, B., Waldman, A., & Rebala, P. (2025, August 21). Gutted: How deeply trump has cut federal health agencies.  ProPublica. https://projects.propublica.org/federal-health-worker-cuts-rfk-trump-administration/ 

Wolak, J. (2020). Compromise in an age of party polarization. Oxford University Press. JK468 .E7 W65 2020 

Group 5 

Dayen, D. (2025, October 3). The ‘look what you made me do’ phase of the shutdown. The American Prospect. https://prospect.org/api/content/e742407c-9fd7-11f0-b78a-1248ae80e59d/ 

Flynn, D. J. (2025, October 2). The democrats again perform a self-own in federal shutdown. The American Spectator. https://spectator.org/the-democrats-again-perform-a-self-own-in-federal-shutdown/ 

Wood, B. D., & Jordan, S. (2017). Party polarization in America : the war over two social contracts. Cambridge University Press. JK2265 .W66 2017 

 

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