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A sign of Discreet Democratic Erosion in Japan by Kengo Nishiyama

In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan(LDP) has controlled the government for over sixty years, excluding brief interruption in 1993 and...

Brazil’s recently elected 38th president, Jair Bolsonaro, has spread his name globally through his offensive comments and provocative far-right...

Since the death of President Hugo Chávez in 2013, President Nicolas Maduro has presided over Venezuela as head of state with what some would...

The most recent United States government shutdown of 35 days recently ended on January 25th. This wasn’t the first shutdown: there have been 13...

It was roughly three weeks ago when the longest government shutdown in American history came to an end in a frankly shocking moment of...

The rise in the number of right wing nationalist governments over the recent years has not inspired an optimistic outlook on the...

On January 27th of 2017, seated in front of the Presidential Seal, U.S President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, barring any citizen...

Just over a month ago, President Donald Trump remarked to a group of reporters that, “…my actings are doing really great… I sort of like...

In the months leading up to and following Donald Trump receiving the official nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, it was...