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Ratings don’t only Reflect Democracy, They Affect It by Micah Rosen @ Brown University

It’s hard to have an optimistic conversation about US politics. Recent surveys confirm widespread negativity among the American public. Results...

Populism is thriving across the developed world. Yet populists do not always succeed in places that seem ripe for populism. Despite sharing many...

President Donald Trump’s presidency is not the start of democratic erosion in the United States – it’s the continuation of several long and often...

The rise and election of Donald Trump left many Democrats reeling, searching for a way to understand the current political moment. To Robert...

It’s no bold claim to say that the United States is a democracy. Our Constitution, one of the earliest iterations of representative government...

In 1994, South Africa broke a wicked spell of white control, saying its last goodbye to a horrifically undemocratic apartheid political system....

The goal of any scientific inquiry is ostensibly to find or at least approximate some sort of truth. When we examine a phenomenon in the world,...

Following the election of Donald Trump, many of those who oppose him were, and still are, concerned about the future of democracy. The populist...

More than half a century after being written, Hannah Arendt's hypotheses explaining the roots and contours of totalitarianism remain,...