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Voter Fraud: The True Threat to American Democracy?

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...

Election Denialism: A Comparison of American and Brazilian Tendencies in Public Trust Scandals, Misinformation, and Political Violence

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...

Democracy in Peril: The Menace of Fake News and Propaganda of the Marcoses on Social Media in the Philippines

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...

Venezuela: Two leaders, one resource, no democracy

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...
American Democracy and the Censuring of Rashida Tlaib

American Democracy and the Censuring of Rashida Tlaib

by Kennedy Little | Nov 22, 2023 | Northeastern University

On November 7th, in a 234-188 vote, the United States House of Representatives voted to censure Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib following Tlaib’s comments on the Israel-Hamas war. Twenty-two Democrats joined two hundred twelve Republicans to formally express their...
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