{"id":1250,"date":"2025-09-06T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:01:06","slug":"1250-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/1250-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: The State of Our Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row-eplus-story-module eplus-bg-color-row bg-color-black\"><div class=\"col-eplus-image-opp-wysiwyg--textcol-single\">\n<p class=\"h2\">The State of Our Democracy<\/p>\n<p class=\"h5\">A Look Ahead at the 2026 Elections<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1310\" style=\"width: 812px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nautickets.universitytickets.com\/w\/event.aspx?Id=2532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1310 \" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002-600x600.png\" alt=\"State of Our Democracy Ad\" width=\"812\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/post_SS_AF_1002.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The State of Our Democracy: A Look Ahead at the 2026 Elections<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row bg-color-extra-light-gray\"><div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row-content\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/stokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1339 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Stokes_bios-scaled-e1757925174356-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Stokes_bios-scaled-e1757925174356-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Stokes_bios-scaled-e1757925174356-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Stokes_bios-scaled-e1757925174356-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Stokes_bios-scaled-e1757925174356-400x400.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Susan Stokes is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/stokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row bg-color-extra-light-gray\"><div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row-content\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/fontes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1334 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Fontes-bio1s-scaled-e1757925610775-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Fontes-bio1s-scaled-e1757925610775-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Fontes-bio1s-scaled-e1757925610775-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Fontes-bio1s-scaled-e1757925610775-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2025\/09\/Fontes-bio1s-scaled-e1757925610775-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Secretary Adrian Fontes is Arizona&#8217;s 21st Secretary of State. He served on active duty from 1992 to 1996 and was nominated for a meritorious commission&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/fontes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/richard-d-young-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}