by Mateo Garcia | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In 2016, a man with no political experience and little political support was elected president of the United States. Previously, no president had been elected without a background in government or the military. How was Donald Trump able to be elected? His mastery of...
by Andrew Olivei | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
In their seminal work How Democracies Die, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify two principal constitutional guardrails that, they argue, have allowed democracy to survive in the United States even in light of constitutional imperfections: mutual toleration and...
by Tucker Rivera | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
Right wing, conservative senators are gatekeeping the Supreme Court, in a way that they failed to during the political rise of President Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential primaries. [1] Focused more on retaining their own power, than repressing the United States’...
by Anthony Stenzel | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
On August 9, 2020, Belarus held its presidential election. This is the first time in many decades where the current president, Alexander Lukashenko, has been seriously challenged by an opposition candidate. This election has been criticized from around the globe, but...
by María Odériz | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
Last Wednesday Spain reached 1 million Covid-19 cases and the numbers are steadily rising. With official government sources admitting that the real data might be even higher -around 3.5 million cases- and the country immersed in a second wave, the...
