by Lily Bryant | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
It was roughly three weeks ago when the longest government shutdown in American history came to an end in a frankly shocking moment of bipartisanship. The recent spending bill – passed in Congress and then signed into law by President Trump – has given the...
by Elijah Kramer | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
On January 27th of 2017, seated in front of the Presidential Seal, U.S President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13769, barring any citizen from seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen — from entering the United States....
by Ryan Stolz | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
Within the past few days, Serbia has been downgraded by democracy watchdog Freedom House from a “free” country to a “partly free” country. This decision by Freedom House is no surprise as Serbia and populist President Aleksander Vucic has appeared increasingly...
by Daniel Abramson | Feb 13, 2019 | Boston University
This past week, Freedom House published its annual report on the status of democracy around the world. In the Freedom in the World report, Hungary was categorized as “partly free” for the first time....
by Tomas Rodriguez | Oct 29, 2018 | Georgia State University
There seems to be a paradox in American Anti-Trump rhetoric where on the one hand Trump is this power-hungry potential authoritarian who is going to target the rights of minorities and drag the country into a fascist-white supremacy dictatorship à la Hitler. One...
