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Erosion of Taboos: The Dangers of the AfD Party

Less than two weeks away from the crucial elections in Germany, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has endorsed Alice Weidel, the chancellor...

Image From: Chicago Council of Global Affairs Since he first ran for office in 2016, one of Donald Trump's biggest concerns was clear: illegal...

From 2015 until 2023, Poland was under the process of democratic erosion; however, recently they reversed this backsliding as the PiS, Law and...

One reading I’d like to touch on is Chapter One of Levitsky and Ziblatt’s book, “How Democracies Die”. At first, I didn’t understand why the...

In October 2024, mass protests erupted across the nation of Georgia following the release of highly contested election results that extended the...

Euphemism as defined by Merriam Webster “the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something...

On December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Seok Yeol declared martial law, causing widespread panic throughout the nation. His declaration...

Although there have been numerous more significant, overarching levels of democratic erosion displayed by the Trump administration, examining the...

In the United States’ hyper-polarized political environment, endorsements that cross party lines are relatively rare. Yet in 2024, several...