by Kiara Chen | Oct 19, 2025 | Arizona State University, Featured
When Xi Jinping declared that China had achieved “a whole-process people’s democracy,” many outside observers saw the phrase as contradictory. How could an authoritarian, one-party state claim to be democratic? Yet this rhetoric is not mere propaganda, it represents a...
by Ananya Kaushal | Apr 30, 2025 | Tulane University
Image of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at a BJP rally. The lotus symbol, central to the BJP’s identity, is prominently displayed on the podium. I remember sitting on the couch with my dad during the 2014 Indian election results. The screen...
by India Clarke | Feb 17, 2025 | Boston University
When President Trump campaigned for a second term in office, he promised to cut what he referred to as government waste, fraud and abuse. He tasked Elon Musk, shortly after his election, with locating the alleged financial mismanagement and use through the Department...
by Anna Thorner | May 27, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
After the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipinos vowed that neither the Marcoses nor the tyranny of martial law would ever return to Malacañang Palace. About forty decades later, the astonishing landslide victory of Bongbong Marcos Jr., made a...
by Judith Zhang | Feb 25, 2022 | University of Chicago
Congress recently passed a short-term spending bill to narrowly avoid entering a government shutdown. The formal deadline to pass spending legislation was September 2021, but due to divisions in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats, neither side has been able...
