“Court-Packing” and Saving American Democracy
On December 21, 2018, news organizations ran abuzz with a bomb report — Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been re-diagnosed with cancer. The BBC published...
Universities
Threats to the Judiciary in the United States: Looking Beyond the Executive
Despite not having grown up in the US, for virtually all my life I’ve heard...
North Korea as a Populist Regime
The political structure of a country is often presented on a spectrum; it is the degree of democracy or autocracy rather than a dichotomous...
The Paradox of Trump’s Middle Class Supporters
In his 1959 book “Some Social Requisites of Democracy,” American sociologist and democratic theorist Seymour Lipset advanced a model of what made...
Even Justice Under Law
After the passing of Justice Scalia in 2016, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate would not consider any nomination...
Packing the Court and the Future of Voting Rights in the U.S.
On Monday, the Supreme Court split four to four in a decision on whether Pennsylvania absentee ballots received up to three days after election...
COVID-19 and the Serbian Case
“One of the great ironies of how democracies die is that the very defense of democracy is often used as a pretext for its subversion.” This line...
Will Ukraine’s President Zelenskiy Learn From His Predecessors?
The Ukrainian people have been through a lot. According to a 2019 Pew Poll, 81% of Ukrainians see a fair judicial system as one of the most...
Political Polarization and the American Democracy
In the United States, the people want democracy. In fact, recent work by the Pew Research Center finds that "while Americans generally agree on...