When Congress met to count Electoral Collage votes

When counting Electoral Collage votes, Senate and House members meet in joint session in the House of Representatives chamber. The presiding officer, Mike Pence, opens the certificates of the electoral votes from each of the states in alphabetic order and gives the votes to four tellers. The tellers reads every certificate out loud and count …

Has Covid-19 impacted the nomination processes and the outcome so far in the 2020 US presidential election?

Covid-19 has not left anyone or anything unaffected in 2020. The pandemic reached both medias and the newsletters headlines, affecting everything from the Sustainable Development Goals, to the politics around the globe. The Covid-19 pandemic has for instance changed everything from how the campaign is conducted to how American citizens are voting. In 2016 when …

What politics means to me

To me, politics is something I want to learn a lot more about. I believe that because of my interests in law, I have recently found politics very interesting as well. Per today, I also have the subject politics and human rights, where I am able learn about Norwegian politics, also focusing on politics outside …

The importance of girls education

One of the biggest reasons why education for girls is so important, is safe sex. Research shows that women would be 13% more likely to know that condoms can reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS if they had finished primary school. With the proper knowledge, they would understand and be aware of the risks by unsafe …

THE 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Good health and well-being One of the 17 important sustainable development goals is good health and well-being. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development.  Why is this so important? Ensuring healthy lives for all ages is important to create well functioned societies. Examples here are Africa. To …

RESEARCH ON THE COUNTRY ISRAEL

As a densely populated country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, Israel is a country with a lot of history. Per today, the history continues, and conflicts still rules upon the country’s chance to peace. In this blog post, I am going to enlighten about the research on the country’s treatment of the …