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 Augustus Bayard | May 4, 2022 | Brown University
The rise of former U.S. President Donald Trump spawned a veritable cottage industry of books purported to offer confused Trump opponents insight into what his supporters were thinking. The New York Times lists as examples George Packer’s The Unwinding, Arlie Russell...
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...
by Alin Khrimian | Apr 30, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
For years, Turkey was hailed as being an exemplary case of a rare, developing, and withstanding secular democracy in a Muslim-majority society. However, under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party, Turkey has undergone a significant democratic...
by Julien Osborne | Apr 28, 2022 | Suffolk University
Not long ago, I familiarized myself with the work of the late political theorist and philosopher Mark Fisher. His most well-known and significant work, Capitalist Realism, is a valuable read, first and foremost to gain a proper understanding of its central, eponymous...
