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Donald the Lame-Duck President

The Donald is officially a lame duck. That’s all folks! Or is it…. On November 9th, not even one week after the general election that eventually...

Even though the 2020 Presidential Election was called on November 14th, escaping election news seems impossible. The last week has seen Trump's...

Narendra Modi’s time as Prime Minister of India has been watched closely by the world as escalations have heightened with Pakistan in recent...

While ostensibly a positive effort against corruption, the voluntary banning of pork-barrel spending has contributed to the erosion of American...

Incentives are everything. Since its founding in 1993, the European Union (EU) has understood this and become a master of soft power pressure and...

(AP Photo/Juan Karita) After nearly a year in exile, former President Evo Morales returned to Bolivia on November 9th to a crowd of adoring...

Scholars of political science who study the phenomenon of democratic erosion often analyze the relationship of it with polarization. While there...

In the grand scheme of checks and balances on authoritarian tendencies, the media ideally plays an impartial role as a guardrail against...

The core of populism is in creating an image of the people and representing them to justify political power. [1] It is based on a myth as “the...