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How The 2016 Presidential Election Shed Light on Democratic Backsliding by Sophie Secor

The 2016 Trump campaign was unlike any other campaign that America has ever seen. The highly publicized, and infamous candidate was anything but...

The global rise of nationalism in recent years has given rise to far-right movements across the globe, but its effects have been contained...

Since the moment that current President Trump had been elected as the next President of the United States, the entire world has kept an eye on...

On October 28, 2018, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, from PSL (Social Liberal Party), was elected president of Brazil with 55 percent of valid votes on...

Controversy over voter access is a reoccurring figure in American political debate, most recently revitalized by the 2018 midterm elections....

In the United States, the power to pardon is an executive power that is awarded to the President of the United States under Article II, Section...

The power of direct democracy in California Initiative, referendum, and recall...

Congress is considering imposing new restrictions on online political ads, advocating for transparency in content found on social media sites....

It's become a received wisdom of sorts that the media failed to grasp Donald Trump's rise in 2016 ahead of time because "the press [took] him...