by Zafiro Aguilar | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
The 2020 election year has seen many twists and turns that have impacted the usual ways we see U.S. elections performed, especially in how debates were conducted. We have seen the second planned presidential debate turn into a townhall for each respective candidate....
by Alex Mantilla | Nov 18, 2020 | University of Chicago
On September 2, prominent Venezuelan opposition figure Henrique Capriles announced his support for opposition candidates in the upcoming December legislative elections. The announcement garnered international attention as Juan Guaidó, self-declared interim President...
by Stasya Rodionova | Nov 13, 2020 | University of Chicago
In the grand scheme of checks and balances on authoritarian tendencies, the media ideally plays an impartial role as a guardrail against democratic backsliding. 2016 posed a unique challenge to this system in the U.S. Then Republican-nominee Donald Trump’s claims and...
by Leo Fonsingerman | Oct 27, 2020 | University of Chicago
Last weekend, on October 18th, Luis Arce of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party won the Bolivian presidential election by a comfortable margin and Jeanine Anez, the evangelical leader of the opposing party, the Democrat Social Movement, ceded power to him...
by Grace Dalton | Oct 26, 2020 | Georgia State University
In 1966, just two short years before his life would be taken by the infuriated opposition, Martin Luther King, Jr. said in an interview, when asked about “Black Power,” that “a riot is the language of the unheard” (“A riot…”). Though King spoke this about...
