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The Informational Middleman: A Hidden Literacy Crisis, Who Gets to Explain Democracy?

What if you can vote but can’t understand what you’re voting on? Imagine two citizens receiving identical governmental notices before preparing...

There has been a lot of commotion in the last years about the instability of liberal democracies, and particularly established democracies which...

In late August, the Trump Administration used emergency requests to alter the federal voting form used by overseas U.S. citizens, limiting how...

On September 18, 2026, President Donald Trump announced that he would be barring the news organizations CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from attending...

NAZA is the Hebrew acronym used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to code collateral damage: a quantifiable and ‘acceptable’ loss of civilian...

When Donald Tusk became prime minister, after his coalition defeated the Law and Justice (PiS) party in 2023, the coalition promised the citizens...

On April 29th, 2026 the United States Supreme Court gave the decision for the case, Louisiana v. Callais, which ruled that Louisiana’s...

This week, the State Department distributed roughly $177 million in Democracy Funds through 43 awards hours before a deadline and despite...

Since his loss in the 2020 presidential election, President Trump has been diligently working to undermine the American electoral system. The...