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Challenging Erdoğan’s Autocracy: Resistance to Democratic Erosion in Türkiye

Tens of thousands of people crowded the streets of Istanbul for another night of protests in late March of 2025, waving red Turkish flags and...

Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega has seen its presidential republic downgraded from a competitive democracy to an authoritarian regime, where the...

Indonesia has experienced continuous democratic backsliding since 2017. Despite pervasive executive aggrandizement and other continuing...

Many countries around the world require their citizens to serve in their national forces for a certain amount of time. The country of Eritrea...

Photo by: Anthony Anex In April of 2024, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) proposed the “No to 10 Million Swiss!” initiative. This initiative is...

In Thomas Pepinsky's intriguing essay, “America Is a Normal Country: Presidentialism Can Break It, Exceptionalism Won’t Save It,” he challenges...

Britons are feeling nostalgic for empire. In response to a 2019 YouGov survey asking Britons to indicate whether countries that were formerly...

Kuwait's Emir has recently dissolved the country's parliament citing corruption and the parliament's poor performance as his reasoning. While...

When journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée were murdered in 2018, outraged citizens across the state demanded that Prime Minister Robert Fico...