The JFK Files: Make America Paranoid Again
Donald Trump recently released 80,000 CIA files on the JFK assassination and the following investigation. These files were released to some...
Universities
The Brandmauer and its Recent Deterioration
Firewalls and regional equivalents to it have recently come under heavy strain as nationalist far-right parties have found themselves relative...
Populism and Authoritarianism in Venezuela
Cyrus Sadr Democratic Erosion Professor Steven Rosenzweig 4/9/25 Populism and Authoritarianism in Venezuela The 2024 election of...
The Erosion of Democracy: Sending U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
The idea floated by former President Trump to deport “homegrown criminals”—U.S. citizens—to a maximum security prison in El Salvador is a...
“Unleashed” – Boris Johnson’s Populist Reincarnation
On October 10th, 2024 I ordered the freshly released Boris Johnson memoir, Unleashed (Croft,2024). None of my relatives or friends from the UK,...
Democratic Erosion Disguised as Stability: Georgia’s Post-Election Crisis
In Georgia, parliamentary elections in October 2024 spurred mass mobilization and protest nationally over alleged electoral fraud and government...
Serbian Protests: Unrest or Backsliding?
Serbia has seen a wave of student protests over the last four months due to the deadly train station collapse in Novi Sad that has now claimed...
Prosperity Does Not Equal Democracy: Economic Inequality and Democratic Erosion
The United States is rich. In fact, almost ridiculously so; to illustrate, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook for 2025, the U.S. sits...
The Disbandment of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party: An Example of Authoritarian Consolidation
On April 13th, 2025, Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party, the Democratic Party, voted to begin dissolving itself. Over 90% of the party’s...