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January 6th Riots Unfold Further Chaos

Since the January 6th riots of 2021, the United States government has been up in arms about how to handle the fates of those who took part in the...

During his first four years, President Trump appointed 226 judges to federal district, appeals, and supreme courts, almost three fourths as much...

Picture from The Guardian [1] The elections in Chile that led to Boric winning the presidency were a test of Chile’s eroding democracy. Amid...

In his piece entitled “Stealth Authoritarianism”, Ozan Vogel defines stealth authoritarianism as when the president or executive uses legal...

On December 19th, 2021, Chile followed the wave of left-wing victories in the region by electing 35-year-old former student leader Gabriel Boric....

The Russian government has implemented extensive surveillance measures that, they say, will help combat Covid-19. The measures include the...

Many political scientists assert that Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán is an autocrat and point to Hungary as a prime example of democratic...

On January 24, 2022, three federal judges struck down a newly redistricted Alabama map in a case named Singleton v. Merrill. Specifically, the...

With Justice Stephen Breyer’s recent announcement of his planned retirement, conversations concerning who Joe Biden will appoint to the Supreme...