How to Defeat Populism: Three Lessons from Slovakia by Jenny W. Xiao
On March 30, 2019 Zuzana Caputova, leader of Progressive Slovakia (PS), won a sweeping victory in the country’s presidential election. In a few...
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The Special Counsel and the Failure of Checks on Executive Power by Sammy Elmasri
Partisan degradation of democratic processes has resulted in the failure of checks on executive power specifically in reference to the Mueller...
Culture Clash: Mongolia’s Democratic Journey Takes a Turn by Clara Fong
Since its Democratic Revolution in 1990, Mongolia has been defined as an “oasis of democracy” among an ocean of authoritarian rule by China and...
Protected: The Danger of a Second Referendum
By Rex Lee For the last three years, the decision of the generation, Brexit has paralyzed and gripped the United Kingdom. With the Conservative...
Understanding the Effects of “Alternative Facts” by Leon Chin
It appears that institutions that serve to disseminate information from the government to the general public is incredibly important. President...
Biden: Promising to Reverse Democratic Backsliding and Resisting the temptation to join the Erosion by Warren Casey Epstein
Is former-Vice President Biden’s campaign for president promising to reverse potential democratic backsliding in the United States? American...
Turkish Election Court Calls For Re-vote in Istanbul Mayoral Election by Victoria Malloy
Crowd at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s rally after the 2016 coup attempt | Ozan Kose (AFP) The Istanbul mayoral election was one of a...
Gerrymandering and the Courts as a Guardrail of Democracy by Aimee Hwang
Why Democracy is Under Threat by Gerrymandering? In the United States, one of the major threats to democracy is gerrymandering, which is the...
New World Order by Thomas Martino
The Gulf War On September 11, 1990, President H.W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress concerning the Gulf War. The War was a decisive...