Fake News, Real Consequences: The Shaping of a Propaganda Machine by Victoria Saeed @ Boston University
Between dodging criticisms from San Juan's Carmen Yulín Cruz, exchanging verbal blows with Kim Jong-un, and maintaining a healthy golfing...
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Donald Trump and Populist Rhetoric in 140 Characters or Less by Anna Spier @Boston University
President Donald Trump is no stranger to twitter. His tweets are frequent and he makes no obvious effort to hide his true opinions on a vast...
Trump’s Polarizing Presidentialism, Poeticized by Eminem by Kate Jamison @ Boston University
The Trump Administration has done an excellent job of staying present in the media, between the president’s tweets threatening to start a nuclear...
Mass Surveillance + Populism = A Threat to Public Safety and Democracy by Lukas McMahon @Boston University
A free, liberal democracy should not spy on its citizens. But the United States does, and it may continue to indefinitely, which puts its...
Undermining the Miners: Political Strategies of Partisan Governments by Kaylie Piecuch @ Boston University
A democratic government is a type of a government representative of all constituents. Many Americans have held on to the belief that we are the...
Nevada and the right to legally bear weapons of a mass shooting: a freedom or a sign of democratic backsliding? by Dorothy Spector @ Boston University
In wake of the recent mass shooting in Nevada, one of the deadliest shootings in American history, the debate on why legislation's have not been...
Spain, Stop Hiding Behind Smokescreens by Maxine Moore @ Boston University
While talk of a referendum regarding Catalonia becoming independent from Spain has been occurring for months, on October 1st, Catalonia finally...
Corruption, Frustration, and the Risk of Democratic Breakdown in Brazil by Julia Banas @ Boston University
Brazil’s “The South is My Country” secessionist movement is only the most recent addition to what could be democratic breakdown. Brazil’s risk...
The Suffocation of Presidential Norms by Jarred Barlow @ Boston University
After Donald Trump’s latest Twitter-staged boxing match, this time with Republican Senator Bob Corker, it seems as though one more mound of soil...