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Democratic Breakdown Turns Violent in Venezuela

The sweeping reforms of Hugo Chávez not only initiated democratic breakdown within Venezuela, but also signaled a rise in opposition against the...

On October 13, 1990, major factions all around Lebanon who have been trying to seize control of the country since 1975, signed a historic peace...

The president’s recent invocation of The Proud Boys at the presidential debate is an escalation in the erosion of democratic norms by appealing...

The legendary Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at age 87 on Sept. 18, 2020. Americans lost a powerful, strong woman who stood up...

Polish Democracy: Dancing with the Wolves 1989 was a year like no other in recent memory for many countries in Eastern Europe, and this was...

Over the past six years India has seen the rise of the BJP, India’s center-right party. In the 2014 elections, the BJP’s coalition won the...

Dating back to Chief Justice John Marshall’s revolutionary decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803), the United States Supreme Court has actively...

More than 60 days of non-violent protests have followed the August Belarusian elections. This piece examines the history of the development and...

The manner in which states show democratic erosion tendencies differs today than in the past. Democratic erosion today is much more...