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Marine Le Pen: A Threat to France’s Democracy

Marine Le Pen's populist-nationalist tactics, anti-immigration, and xenophobic sentiment could damage French democracy if she were to be elected...

The year is 2022, and two years have passed since President Donald Trump lost his bid for re-election. Across the country, Republicans at all...

Ever since his election victory in 2019, President Gotabaya Rajapska has been propelling the island nation of Sri Lanka into a repressive and...

What is populism? Is there a clear-concise definition of populism? Scholars have different perceptions of what populism is and the definition...

Patrice Talon (L) is handed a national flag during his swearing in as president of Benin at Charles de Gaulle Stadium in the capital Porto-Novo...

In recent weeks, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis achieved a major victory in the state’s redistricting process following an announcement by...

In 2013, United States Senate Democrats went nuclear. That is, they changed the rules so that it would take only a simple majority to override a...

Emerging as a democracy after the Arab Spring, Tunisia was a source of hope and a leading example for the development of democracy in the Arab...

Colombia’s upcoming presidential elections are sure to be historic, no matter the outcome. With 75% of the population disapproving of current...