by slifko.8@osu.edu | Sep 13, 2024 | Ohio State University
As we start the 2024 United States election cycle, campaign commercials, political slander, and discussions about immigration, healthcare, and taxation are all common. However, there’s another contest in the background: the health of American democracy. Many analysts...
by sfikas.3@osu.edu | Sep 13, 2024 | Ohio State University
Are American elections just one big rigged system? Though there have been numerous claims of voter fraud, it can be hard to know how truly concerned about it we should be. There is actually something a lot scarier hiding in the fraud accusations. Be careful the next...
by Sage Foreman | Jun 5, 2024 | Arizona State University
American and Brazilian politics are intimately interconnected, and as a result have comparably similar social trends with misinformation, public trust, and violent tendencies. Following the 2020 American presidential election, there has been a rise in election...
by Anna Thorner | May 27, 2024 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
After the People Power Revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos, the Filipinos vowed that neither the Marcoses nor the tyranny of martial law would ever return to Malacañang Palace. About forty decades later, the astonishing landslide victory of Bongbong Marcos Jr., made a...
by Anna Thorner | Mar 7, 2024 | William Jewell College
The story of Venezuela’s descent into autocracy is not one tale; it is two stories linked together by little more than a transfer of power and an overreliance upon the volatile oil industry to promote the growth of a nation. Hugo Chavez took charge of a democracy that...
