Last weekend, pictures of Pope Francis dressed in a long, white puffer jacket began circulating the internet. In awe of … More
Author: Julia Mattingly
Julia is co-founder of the Louisville Political Review. She is Senior who specializes in rural issues, health policy, and economics.
The Green Book: How Traveling Black Americans Navigated Jim Crow
Decades before desegregation and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Black Americans struggled to travel throughout the … More
The “Religious Issues” of American Politics: How & Why the Fight for Marriage Equality has Run Laps Around the Pro-Choice Movement
Amongst some of the most contentious policy debates in American politics, deeply-held religious issues remain at the top of voters’ … More
Behind Bars: The Economic Incentive to Incarcerate in Rural Kentucky
For decades in Kentucky and throughout the United States, it has been a commonly held notion that incarceration is predominantly … More
The Impact and Implications of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
The Louisville Political Review looks at monumental court cases that have defined the United States, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and city … More
The Western Branch Library: a Beacon of Hope for Louisville’s Black Community
“The library does more than furnish facts and circulate books…the people feel that the library belongs to them, and that … More
How Racism is Built into Louisville’s Infrastructure
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. – … More
Kentucky’s Rural Hospital Problem
One and a half million dollars. This is how much money—annually— my hometown hospital in rural Kentucky has lost since … More
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