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Photo via Counter Extremism Project Golden Dawn was a political party in Greece that used racism, economic anxiety and fascist propaganda to rise...

It is no secret that a fundamental shift has occurred in the Republican Party platform since Donald Trump announced his candidacy six years ago....

Lebanon was created by colonialism, which began with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following World War 1. At the end of the war, in...

Although many assume democracies die “at the hands of men with guns,” Levitsky and Ziblatt (2018) stress that there are “other ways to break a...

In "The Phoenix Effect of State Repression: Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust" Evgeny Finkel argued that rebel groups that have been forced...

Photo: Danish Siddiqui, December 8, 2019, Reuters.1 In “’Conventional’ and ‘Virtual’ Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes” Mark Beissinger...

Venezuela was once a wealthy country known for its strong constitutional democracy and peaceful shifts of power but collapsed under Higo Chavez’s...

Under any circumstance a flawed election can be an uncharacteristic setback in democracy. The amount of democratic electoral systems around the...