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Paranoid Politics in the Time of COVID-19

The past few months have seen a rapid escalation in cases of the novel coronavirus disease in the United States. The U.S.’ first case of the...

On Monday, March 30th, the Hungarian Parliament voted to give the Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, the right to rule by decree indefinitely. The...

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed 80,000 people and counting as of writing...

As the coronavirus ravages the United States, it’s not only endangering the lives of thousands of Americans, but also the foundations of American...

Venezuela has been going through a twenty year long political and economic rough patch. Beginning with Hugo Chavez in 1998 and now with Nicolas...

Since being elected as Prime Minister in 2010, Viktor Orbán has led Hungary down a road toward authoritarianism, but recently, in the wake of the...

Many scholars have argued that American democracy has been slowly decaying, culminating in the election of populist Donald Trump. Political...

As the 2020 Democratic Primary season ramped up, the bloated field of candidates quickly collapsed to two as frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie...

Earlier in the year and in late 2019, the Republican party in the US has been suppressing voters and voter turnouts through voter roll purges and...