by Sophia Wagner | Oct 14, 2022 | Boston University
The election of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni brings to light decades old tensions between technocracy and democracy within EU countries. On September 26, 2022, Giorgia Meloni, President and founder of the Brothers of Italy (Fdl) – a Euroskeptic and nationalist...
by Alex Umiker | Oct 12, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
How did we get here? How did the United States come so close to the overturning of a democratic election that has guaranteed the peaceful transfer of power for almost 250 years? Infamously, President Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election after he...
by Annie Ha | Sep 30, 2022 | Ohio State University
If there is one democratic concept that has been emphasized time and time again, one idea that is vital for a state to even credit itself as democratic––it’s elections. Yet, since the 2020 presidential election, many have questioned our electoral system’s...
by Erin Egan | Sep 30, 2022 | Ohio State University
The concept of free and fair elections, one of the hallmarks of a functioning democracy, seems to be slipping away in the United States. While Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election are influential, Republicans are doing more than...
by Sam Klein | Sep 28, 2022 | Ohio State University
Across the country, sixty percent of Americans will have an election denier on their ballot. At least 16 states will have a candidate running for secretary of state (or positions that appoint the secretary of state) that has at least questioned the results of the 2020...
