by Charlie Bowie | Apr 18, 2026 | Boston University
As of today, dozens of federal judicial positions in Israel, including 4 Supreme Court positions, remain vacant. This comes as a result of Justice Minister Yariv Levin’s continued refusal to convene the Judicial Selection Committee, heavily impairing the functionality...
by Ava Herzog | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
Recent attacks on academics in the United States point to a broader and more concerning trend, which is the erosion of democratic norms through political polarization and institutional vulnerability. While the U.S. continues to maintain formal protections for free...
by Ava Naeff | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
Since 1950, India has been considered the world’s largest democracy. Although democracy-watching organizations have different methods of categorizing democracies, they all classify modern-day India as a “hybrid” regime, with a combination of both democratic and...
by Mahika Malhotra | Apr 15, 2026 | Boston University
A country does not have to cancel elections to weaken democracy. Sometimes leaders keep elections in place but make it harder for the opposition to compete fairly. I argue that Turkey’s crackdown on Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu shows this clearly. This is not...
by Devin Golden | Apr 3, 2026 | Suffolk University
With the release of the most recent V-Dem report on world democracy, the US has reached a 60-year low dropping all the way back to levels before the civil rights era. This has been labeled as the single most dramatic decline of democracy in the world. The rate at...
