University of Chicago

Populism as a Bid for Legitimacy by Renee Colby

"When and why do men obey?" Max Weber poses this question in his 1918 lecture 'Politics as a Vocation'. " Upon what inner justifications and upon...

President Trump has used Twitter to connect with his supporters in an...

Too often, the word “populist” is used to describe different political characters in the United States and around the world. Although this term...

Democratic erosion and authoritarian tendencies tend to go hand and hand with the executive power. Unlike the self-coups of years past executive...

On Friday at an NRA rally in Indianapolis President Trump, live on stage, signed an executive order effectively pulling the United States out of...

The Shelby County v. Holder Supreme Court decision occurred in June 2013. The premise of the case was that Shelby County, Alabama sued the...

While propaganda in democracies have been studied for decades, the scope has widened to include other terms. Following disagreements between the...

Since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has significantly increased controls over its already censored cyberspace. With the...

May 26th marks the day of the European elections and in France, tensions are at a boiling point. On the front-lines of Europe’s battle against...