Is a New Depolarization Process Possible in Brazil?
Brazil faces the most important elections in its history. Jair Bolsonaro is seeking re-election, while Lula da Silva is seeking to return to the...
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Social Media and Polarization within the U.S.
As social media begins to continually grow within the U.S. so will the trends of increasing polarization. Everybody wants to feel like they're...
When It Comes to Gun Reform, The Republicans Are Playing Dirty
The effective Republican prohibition of any meaningful debate on gun reform represents many of the hallmarks of anti-democratic practices: the...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Threatens Egypt’s Economy – From Backsliding to Backsliding
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam History of the Nile River For decades Egypt and Ethiopia have been in conflict over the Nile...
How Did Argentina Implement LGBTQ Rights by Renewing the Legitimacy Frames of the Social Movements?
In June 2021, Argentina passed a new bill setting a 1% quota for transgender people working in the public sector. As a late-comer democracy,...
Disinformation in regards to the Ukraine Crisis
Both Russia and Ukraine employ disinformation in hopes of effectively determining who decidedly depicts their version of events. As best stated...
The Dangers of Orban’s Rule by Decree in Hungary
When a global pandemic is sweeping through one’s country, it is expected that someone in power would do everything they could to save the most...
Indonesia: Polarization of the Most Crowded Muslim Democracy
Indonesia’s Polarization on the Edges of Power, Secularism and Power Joko Widodo, current president of Indonesia ( derived from The...
The Shanghai Epidemic: Internet Censorship in Authoritarian Governance and Proliferated Rumors Had Resulted in Misinformation and Suppressed Civil Liberty
This spring, with the cancellation of pandemic restrictions in most parts of the world, China became the last large country to maintain the zero...