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The Far-Right Goes Mainstream: France’s National Rally in Parliament

The National Rally (RN), France’s far-right party, gained a record high of 89 seats in the lower house of Parliament in France’s June 2022...

In May this year, Reporters Without Borders, also known as RSF released its annual Press Freedom Index. This report evaluates various indicators...

When Russia launched its barbaric invasion on Ukraine, many expected a silver lining to emerge in which the Russian aggressor would become a...

The 2010 revolution in Tunisia did more than just birth the Arab Spring, it birthed democracy for the first time in the country’s history....

In 1947 India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of freedom and democracy, marking the transition away from English colonialism. Three...

In 1959, Lipset posited that the modernization of a country is conducive to democratization. Lipset understood modernization to include...

The Dominican Republic has been an established democracy since the 1960s when it established itself as such in their constitution in 1966. During...

What is Media Control? South Korea is a fairly new democratic country that was formed after the Korean war in the 1950s. Despite its...

Since Hugo Chávez's ascension to power, Venezuelan elites have allowed for, and enabled the country's descent into authoritarianism. In September...