2020

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is not afraid of being a trailblazer. In 2002, when she was only 21 years old, Gabbard became the youngest woman ever to be elected to the Hawaii State Legislature. However, two years later, she voluntarily stepped down to join the military — something that no one had ever done before.… Read More

Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) was born and raised in upstate New York. As the daughter of two attorneys, law and politics are practically in her blood. Before replacing Hillary Clinton’s U.S. Senate seat in New York in 2009, she worked as an attorney and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Fittingly, she was… Read More

While most of our 2020 coverage sheds light on the presidential challengers, we would be amiss if we didn’t do the same for the incumbent, President Donald J. Trump, who is running for re-election. Without further adieu, here are President Trump’s positions on higher education and other important issues. Here is what Donald Trump stands… Read More

In 2006, Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) became Minnesota’s first female U.S. senator, and she has held onto that position ever since. As the daughter of a teacher and sportswriter, Klobuchar is a product of middle-class America. Her grandfather, who was a coal miner, saved up money in a tin can to send Klobuchar’s father to college.… Read More

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made income inequality a buzzword of the Democratic primaries in 2016, and now is seeking the nomination once more in what looks to be a more competitive field in 2020. The independent senator and self-described democratic socialist from Vermont made waves three years ago when he mounted a surprisingly strong challenge… Read More

Beto O’Rourke, a former Democratic congressman from Texas, made a name for himself during the 2018 midterm elections, in which he almost stole a Texas Senate race from the Republican incumbent Ted Cruz. Before entering the political sphere, O’Rourke spent his high school and college days playing in punk-rock bands, as a member of a… Read More

Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is quite the Renaissance man. Before he became the first African American U.S. senator from the state of New Jersey, he was an elite college football recruit who signed to play at Stanford, a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a graduate of Yale Law School and the mayor of… Read More

*Updated April 23, 2019 As an Oklahoma native with middle-class roots, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has dedicated her political career to, primarily, protecting what she calls “America’s promise” — the promise that anyone who works hard and does what they are supposed to should be able to support themselves and the ones they love. But… Read More

Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has quickly established herself as one of the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2020. The daughter of Jamaican and Tamil Indian immigrants, Harris in many ways embodies the American dream. After graduating from Hastings College of the Law in 1989, Harris worked her way through the San Francisco District… Read More