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Birth Control: The Latest Example of Trump’s Misuse of Democracy. by Laura Stavisky @ Boston University

Throughout the Trump presidency he has exploited democratic institutions to further his own political agenda at the expense of American...

How could a democratic institution, such as a referendum, potentially signal the downfall of democracy? Turkey may provide the answer. After a...

The rise and election of Donald Trump left many Democrats reeling, searching for a way to understand the current political moment. To Robert...

It’s no bold claim to say that the United States is a democracy. Our Constitution, one of the earliest iterations of representative government...

On October 1, Spain responded to what they deemed an illegal referendum by employing police forces to stop individuals in the region of Catalonia...

Stealth Authoritarianism in Cambodia Overt authoritarianism has become extremely costly, prompting trade sanctions and other international...

In 1994, South Africa broke a wicked spell of white control, saying its last goodbye to a horrifically undemocratic apartheid political system....

The goal of any scientific inquiry is ostensibly to find or at least approximate some sort of truth. When we examine a phenomenon in the world,...

Following the election of Donald Trump, many of those who oppose him were, and still are, concerned about the future of democracy. The populist...