by Sara Goldman | Apr 8, 2020 | Boston University
The Coronavirus, or COVID-19 pandemic, is an unprecedented global infectious disease disaster. The initial outbreak was in Wuhan, China at the end of 2019, but it has since spread all over the world, with the US having the highest number of cases worldwide. In the US,...
by Michael De Dios | Dec 11, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
For years, there have been successful attempts to erode a democracy. In Argentina, Juan Peron helped lead a successful coup for two and a half years before making his bid for presidency. Augusto Pinochet, Commander-in-chief of the Chilean army, led a coup d’état in...
by Thomas McLees | Jun 1, 2019 | University of Chicago
On May 26th polls for the European Union’s ninth parliamentary elections closed all over Europe. As votes were counted and results were posted, it became more and more apparent that there was a major shift happening in continental European politics. Many saw this as a...
by Omar Battisha | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Take a peek into stores in the US and you’ll find a plethora of campaign gear for political candidates that only exist on TV shows–everything from shirts touting support for The West Wing’s Jed Bartlett to mugs promoting Veep’s Selena Mayer in her...
by Shihori Maeda | May 4, 2019 | Georgetown University
Thailand has the histories of repetition of coups[1] and elections or military and “democratic” regimes, since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932. The Thai general elections took place on March 24, 2019 was the first elections conducted after the coup in 2014...
