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How Russian Presence in Venezuela Signals Democratic Erosion

In what seems to be a Cold-War era tactic, Russia has once again attempted to assert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere. On Jan. 13, a...

In the United States, and many other western countries with the two-party system, the two major political parties operate on the basis of...

Last month, US President Joe Biden voiced his desire to do away with the filibuster rule in the Senate after his plans to push the Democrat...

Following a worrying trend of anti-democratic actions taken by Wisconsin's Republican politicians, in November of 2021, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson...

In 2017, Princess Basmah bint Saud was arrested and subsequently detained by the Saudi Arabian government without charge or trial. She was...

Since the January 6th riots of 2021, the United States government has been up in arms about how to handle the fates of those who took part in the...

During his first four years, President Trump appointed 226 judges to federal district, appeals, and supreme courts, almost three fourths as much...

Picture from The Guardian [1] The elections in Chile that led to Boric winning the presidency were a test of Chile’s eroding democracy. Amid...

In his piece entitled “Stealth Authoritarianism”, Ozan Vogel defines stealth authoritarianism as when the president or executive uses legal...