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A New Face in Massachusetts Will Cure a Newly Polarized Community by Jake Hempel @ Skidmore College

Today's political spectrum is riddled with divisive issues, ignorance, inaction, and polarization. A diminishing face in government, even in the...

On March 24th, thousands of people across the country and around the world took to the streets and protested American gun laws. With the United...

Since 1955, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan has enjoyed near complete control of the Japanese government. It has only failed to hold...

One of the most important aspects of a functioning democracy is its ability to hold its leaders accountable. A lack of checks and balances or of...

Ecuador's former president, Rafael Correa, was elected three times with over 55% of the vote in 2006, 2009 and 2013. Correa's Alianza Pais (AP)...

On March 23, CNN Politics released an article titled “This White House Just Keeps Not Telling the Truth Over and Over and Over Again”, a...

Botswana is often considered the poster child of post-colonial democratic transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has been lauded for maintaining...

#ThoughtsAndPrayers We see this phrase trod out after every mass shooting in America, but little has been done to galvanize citizenry, let alone...

The story of modern democracy in Northern Ireland is a story of intense path dependency. And at the start of that path was the Good Friday...