University of Chicago

The Switch in Time That Saves Democracy: A Case for Packing the United States Supreme Court

On September 18, 2020, the Supreme Court delivered shocking news: longtime liberal stalwart Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at 87 years old....

Poland’s media problem began with President Andrzej Duda’s election in 2015. He started with blatant attempts to control the commanding...

The 116th Congress has passed just 193 bills into law. While Congress still has a few months left in its current term, these numbers pale in...

On October 5, President Trump gave a news conference on the state of the recent election. At that time, Biden had been leading in key states and...

Democracy in India is certainly at risk, if not already subverted, a demise that has been turbocharged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That...

Last week, President Donald Trump was voted out of office by an American populace ready to replace him. This rightly seems like a signal that the...

As the 2020 election winds down and the Democratic Party has, by all reputable accounts, been confirmed as the victor, Op-Eds across the internet...

One of the specific criteria of populist leaders according to Jan-Werner Müller is antipluralism. He writes, “[Populists] claim that they and...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is one of the least popular politicians in the nation— and that’s not just a matter of opinion....