The Right to and Danger of Appointing Supreme Court Justices by Noa Levin
On June 27, 2018, now-former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announcedthat he would be retiring from his position at the Supreme...
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The Source of Fake News: Politicians or Populace? by Renee Colby
In 2018, social scientists Oscar Barrera, Sergei Guriev, Emeric Henry, and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya conducted an experiment where subjects were...
Democratic Backsliding via an Eroding Middle Class by Kenneth Coleman
In Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Acemoglu and Robinson present the role of the middle class in the formation and continuity of...
The Threat to Voting Rights in Florida by Meghan Ward
Last November, Florida restored voting rights to 1.4 million of its citizens when it passed Florida Amendment 4, which ended disenfranchisement...
The Spin Zone by Max Krause
Information accessibility has only expanded in the era of the internet, mass media television, and big data firms. Yet surprisingly, the...
Polarization in Poland by Anjali Nahata
History can be circular in parts of Europe. The divide that has severed Polish politics is very similar to the divide that split France during...
Social Media and Democracy by Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie
On April 30th, the Sri Lankan government lifted a ban on social media it had put in place following the Easter attacks that had killed 253...
Coup or Rescue? Juan Guaido’s Bid for the Venezuelan Presidency by Meghan Ward
“The moment is now” — this was the rallying cry Juan Guaido issued to the people of Venezuela in a video he released on Tuesday. Standing...
Texas Voter ID Laws as an Exercise of Stealth Authoritarianism by Ryan Fleishman
In his essay Stealth Authoritarianism, Ozan Varol posits “Laws that regulate voter registration, which exist in virtually all democratic nations...