Democratic Erosion: Trump’s threats on vulnerable students
The Trump Administration has caused an influx of high-profile arrests of international students across the United States by the Department of...
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Militarizing The U.S. Boarder With Mexico: A Sign Of Democratic Erosion
On April 11, 2025, President Donald Trump granted the U.S. military permission to occupy federal lands along the border between the United States...
The JFK Files: Make America Paranoid Again
Donald Trump recently released 80,000 CIA files on the JFK assassination and the following investigation. These files were released to some...
The Brandmauer and its Recent Deterioration
Firewalls and regional equivalents to it have recently come under heavy strain as nationalist far-right parties have found themselves relative...
Populism and Authoritarianism in Venezuela
Cyrus Sadr Democratic Erosion Professor Steven Rosenzweig 4/9/25 Populism and Authoritarianism in Venezuela The 2024 election of...
The Erosion of Democracy: Sending U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
The idea floated by former President Trump to deport “homegrown criminals”—U.S. citizens—to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is a...
Democratic Erosion Disguised as Stability: Georgia’s Post-Election Crisis
In Georgia, parliamentary elections in October 2024 spurred mass mobilization and protest nationally over alleged electoral fraud and government...
Serbian Protests: Unrest or Backsliding?
Serbia has seen a wave of student protests over the last four months due to the deadly train station collapse in Novi Sad that has now claimed...
Prosperity Does Not Equal Democracy: Economic Inequality and Democratic Erosion
The United States is rich. In fact, almost ridiculously so; to illustrate, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook for 2025, the U.S. sits...