On the Border of Democracy by Emilie Larsen
On February 15th, 2019, following the longest ever government shutdown, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over what he refers...
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Why The Election of Jair Bolsonaro is the First Step in the Erosion of Brazil’s Democracy by Felicia Gordon
Jair Bolsonaro was elected into power to serve as Brazil’s President on January 1, 2019. While the brief amount of time since his Presidency...
Mueller’s Failed Indictment: An Agent for Democratic Erosion by Huy Do
This past week, the Mueller investigation’s preliminary findings sprung across American news outlets, indicating that neither President Trump,...
A False Sense of Hope: Thailand’s Recent Election – By Dean Weeden
Many observers were looking toward the Thailand elections in late March as a sign of changing times; the country has been governed by a military...
Fake News: How Trump’s Attack on the Media is an Attack on Democracy
Madison R. Wadsworth It seems as though every day there is another article about the United States President, Donald Trump, calling reporters...
Murder of Polish Mayor Highlight’s Hostile Political Divisions by Isa Colyer
On Sunday, January 13th of this year, hundreds of Polish residents flocked to an outdoor stage in Gdansk to attend the Great Orchestra of...
Reparations, Apologies, and the Spanish Conquest by Taylor Williams
Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador is the current president of Mexico, elected in 2018 as part of the National Regeneration Movement party. In attempts...
It Wasn’t Always This Way: How Republicans Went from Gatekeepers of Democracy to Promoters of Populism by Kyle Friant
Antipathy to liberal democracy has become a staple of the modern incarnation of the Republican Party, a move that is detrimental to the entire...
A New Age of Politics in El Salvador by Olivia Kesselring
37 year old Nayib Bukele, wearing his signature blue jeans and leather jacket, was democratically elected president of El Salvador in February of...