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The Trump Presidency: An Incremental Retrogression Towards Authoritarianism

On September 23, 2020, Donald Trump refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power in the event that he loses the 2020 election to...

A subtle revision to official media guidelines has caused an outcry over the state of democracy in Hong Kong. On Wednesday September 23rd, the...

The sweeping reforms of Hugo Chávez not only initiated democratic breakdown within Venezuela, but also signaled a rise in opposition against the...

The United States is not a democracy. Though some tout the US as a beacon of representative democracy in the world where economic prosperity is...

On October 13, 1990, major factions all around Lebanon who have been trying to seize control of the country since 1975, signed a historic peace...

The president’s recent invocation of The Proud Boys at the presidential debate is an escalation in the erosion of democratic norms by appealing...

As President Trump’s authoritarian tendencies have pushed the U.S. into a period of democratic uncertainty unrivaled in its modern history, it...

Prior to the last month, TikTok was known, for the most part, simply as a platform for teenagers to post silly videos of themselves lip-syncing...

The legendary Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at age 87 on Sept. 18, 2020. Americans lost a powerful, strong woman who stood up...