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Will the Upcoming Referendum Bring Meaningful Change to Belarus?

Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, is widely considered to be an authoritarian, earning him the unflattering title of “Europe’s last...

A few weeks ago, I received the letter pictured above from Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in my mailbox. “Dear citizen! I write to you...

In 2020 Alexander Lukashenko “won” yet another term in what is widely considered an unfree election. Domestic protests quickly followed and were...

In the US, a significant population of the governed are not citizens in the eyes of the law. As repeatedly demonstrated during Trump era...

In what seems to be a Cold-War era tactic, Russia has once again attempted to assert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere. On Jan. 13, a...

In the United States, and many other western countries with the two-party system, the two major political parties operate on the basis of...

Last month, US President Joe Biden voiced his desire to do away with the filibuster rule in the Senate after his plans to push the Democrat...

Following a worrying trend of anti-democratic actions taken by Wisconsin's Republican politicians, in November of 2021, U.S. Senator Ron Johnson...

In 2017, Princess Basmah bint Saud was arrested and subsequently detained by the Saudi Arabian government without charge or trial. She was...