by Valeria Yraita-Zevallos | Oct 16, 2023 | Boston University
Who does one think of when talking about populism and authoritarianism? The common names that come to mind are those of Hitler, Hugo Chavez, Juan Perón, Alberto Fujimori, and others. However, there are names of leaders from the last ten years that fall into the same...
by Anoushka Yadav | May 4, 2023 | University of Utah
On a seemingly normal day, America witnessed a threat to democracy. As Joe Biden was gearing up to take office after a turbulent election period, a group of Trump supporters and white supremacists stormed the capital to show their dissent about the election. In a...
by Kevin Liao | Dec 8, 2022 | Boston University
Context On December 2nd, Elon Musk retweeted a thread which was posted at Musk’s behest by Matt Taibbi, called The “Twitter Files.” The thread details the censorship Twitter executives engaged in during the 2020 election. The censorship is concerned with a New York...
by Devin Rauscher | Nov 29, 2022 | Boston University
On Thursday, October 27, 2022, Elon Musk officially closed his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media site Twitter. In the following weeks, he fired several of Twitter’s top financial and legal executives, instated and then retracted a new plan for buying...
by Owen Taylor | Nov 21, 2022 | Boston University
In 2020 Andrzej Duda won Poland’s presidential election with 51.2 percent of the vote. This very narrow margin unveiled the clear divide of polarization throughout their country. In addition, there are many instances of political sorting through gender and...
