Security Lapse or Security Breach: The latest on the list of struggles for Israeli voters
Imagine if your social security card was posted online. Now, imagine every citizen’s social security number, address, and phone number were...
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Felon Disenfranchisement and the Right to Vote
In 2018, 1.4 million people were granted the ability to vote. Florida passed legislation to restore voting rights, and people all over the United...
Can holding politicians and lawmakers accountable help in the fight against Human Trafficking?
With slavery being abolished in 1865, one would think that there are no slaves in the United States in the 21st Century. However, this is a...
The Downfalls of Gate-keeping: What Bernie Sanders Dropping out of the election says about the Pitfalls of American Democracy
Trump’s tumultuous election in 2016 left half of the country shell shocked. However, the election was not as abnormal as it was originally...
The Politicization of The US Judicial System Empowers Authoritarianism
When the Founding Fathers created the U.S. government, they wanted to remove the chance of a tyrannical king ever taking...
Paranoid Politics in the US Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the global pandemic of COVID-19 virtually shutting down the entire country and disrupting our way of life, the United States, and in...
The UK’s Coronavirus Failure
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has thrown the entire world for a loop, no country has been unaffected by its strength and ability to spread. The...
As the Coronavirus Spreads—So Does Democratic Erosion
Amidst the onset of an economic recession in 2008, the Wall Street Journal quoted former Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emmanual with his now-infamous...
Gnashing of Teeth: Abandonment and Insecurity in American Prisons
Theorists use a range of scales to identify the turning points of democratization and de-democratization. Some prefer to focus on political...