Stealth Authoritarianism in Tunisia
According to Al Jazeera, Tunisia’s January 2026 sentencing of two journalists to three year prison terms for allegedly “spreading false news"...
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AI as Democratic Erosion by Proxy: Trump, Synthetic Media, and the Normalization of Anti-Pluralism
Donald Trump’s use of AI-generated media, particularly content that fabricates or manipulates the speech and actions of political opponents,...
Is India Facing Democratic Backsliding?
Within the past decade, political institutions have listed India’s democracy in a steady decline. The V-Dem Institute lists India as #100 out of...
Democratic Backsliding: How Trump’s Administration is Turning ICE into a Tool for Personalist Rule
The survival of modern democracy in the United States has been witnessing the threat of democratic erosion under the current administration....
Reclassifying Bureaucratic Positions: How Trump’s New Rule Threatens Democracy
On February 6, 2026, the Office of Personnel Management released a rule authorizing the reclassification of tens of thousands of...
“When the Wolf is Beyond Reproach: An Exploration of Stealth Authoritarianism in America”
Photo by NASA: www.unsplash.com “When the Wolf is Beyond Reproach: An Exploration of Stealth Authoritarianism in America” Stealth...
How Hybrid Regimes Erode Democracies: The Philippines
The current state of democracy in the Philippines demonstrates how hybrid regimes develop through executive power expansion, legal system...
The Ongoing Battle of Electoral Legitimacy in the United States
Americans have seen changing tides in the last ten years, marked by what many call a rise of a populist, a global pandemic, changes in mutual...
Poland Shows How Democracy Can Bend, But Not Break
The people of Poland have witnessed democratic norms erode over the past decade, marked by the absence of credible courts, judicial collapse, and...