by Lydia Palmer | Feb 7, 2022 | University of Chicago
This past Thursday, February 3, 2022, President Andrzej Duda of Poland’s Law and Justice (PiS) party submitted legislation to dismantle the Supreme Court’s Judicial Disciplinary Chamber. This legislation represents the culmination of longstanding pressure on Poland...
by Samantha Gable | Dec 2, 2020 | Brown University
The European Union is failing to maintain democracy in their member states. Not only are they failing to threaten these countries into cooperating, they may also be creating an environment that strengthens these leaders and their anti-democratic ways. ...
by Dilek Mustafa | Oct 25, 2020 | Suffolk University
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has challenged Turkey’s scant democracy, through exceptional use of oppression against journalism and democratic representation, extreme military hostilities in the region, domestic approach of Islamic ideologies, and...
by Steven Rubin | Feb 12, 2020 | Boston University
An attack on the freedom of the press and can easily be seen as an attack on democracy. Of the many key features of truly democratic countries, freedom of the press is often viewed as essential. In the United States, freedom of the press is protected by the First...
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...