by Jasmine Thomas-Petit | May 13, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
Whenever you read the news it seems like there is always a protest going on in Haiti. The most recent protest that took place in March addressed the rising insecurity of the country. Current President and Prime Minister, Ariel Henry, has gotten very comfortable in...
by Sophia Sumaray | May 6, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Ambassadors and diplomats leave while Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (on screen) addresses with a pre-recorded video message at the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland,...
by Justin Vargas | May 6, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
January 6th, 2021 is a day that Americans will not soon forget. The United States experienced an attack on its democracy as violent protestors stormed the Capitol, spurred by an unfounded belief that the election of the 46th President of the United States had been...
by Jacob Duarte | May 4, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Strong democratic institutions were not created from the standpoint of governments being comprised of moral representatives focused on only the collective good. If our elected officials were always noble there would be no justification to implement a system of checks...
by Carter Woodruff | May 3, 2022 | Brown University
In a previous article, I examined the effects of changes to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm to prioritize “Meaningful Social Interactions” (MSI), drawing broad conclusions about both the potential and actualized threats to democracy that Big Tech poses. I now believe...
