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A False Sense of Hope: Thailand’s Recent Election – By Dean Weeden

Many observers were looking toward the Thailand elections in late March as a sign of changing times; the country has been governed by a military...

Botswana gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966 and, since its liberation, has had free and fair elections. It has also averaged an...

During Trump’s presidency, the appointments that he has made have been considered suspect at best. As opposed to the appointment of those...

On the thirteenth of February, 2019, Megan Kalili of Boston University published, "Trump's Southern Wall Is Eroding America's Democracy,"...

In Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan(LDP) has controlled the government for over sixty years, excluding brief interruption in 1993 and...

Brazil’s recently elected 38th president, Jair Bolsonaro, has spread his name globally through his offensive comments and provocative far-right...

Since the death of President Hugo Chávez in 2013, President Nicolas Maduro has presided over Venezuela as head of state with what some would...

The most recent United States government shutdown of 35 days recently ended on January 25th. This wasn’t the first shutdown: there have been 13...

It was roughly three weeks ago when the longest government shutdown in American history came to an end in a frankly shocking moment of...