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Erdogan Persists, With Turkey’s Blessing, by Ronen Schatsky

When Turkey’s voters upended expectations and favored the opposition in the March 31 municipal elections, the question was not how they pulled it...

Political polarization is often cited as a negative, and occasionally as a competitive positive, for a democracy. Polarization in the United...

The lines between politics, news, and entertainment can often be blurry,...

This piece explores the relationship between the Republican Party and racism in the recent past and the current political climate. Within the...

Institutionally and practically speaking, countries such as modern-day Japan, as well as India up until the late 1980s, generally fall within the...

Polarization can sometimes be a symptom of democratic erosion. A political climate that is sharply divided into two sides who are unable to...

As perhaps one of the best known and examined cases of democratic backsliding, it comes as no surprise that Turkey under Erdoğan is home to a...

In his paper, Reflections on Putin and the Media, Scott Gehlbach describes the political implications of Vladimir Putin’s ongoing medial strategy...

The readings from this past week are quite clear: the media, specifically "fake news" and the dissemination of "alternative facts," has proved to...