by Alexa Keith | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
On May 6, 2019, a drone dropped flyers outside of an Ariana Grande concert in Sacramento. The flyers read, “the press is the enemy”, “mob organized crime”, “police state/fascism”, and featured images of a swastika. It’s safe to say, “Fake News” has taken the West by...
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 Alec Wood | May 4, 2019 | American University
It’s not every day that Austrian and American politics intersect. Monday morning, April 30, 2019, reporting from Vice News revealed that the Kootenai County Republican Committee unanimously passed a resolution requesting that the US Government restore Martin Sellner’s...
by Simon Machalek | May 2, 2019 | Georgetown University
The Visegrad Group, also known as V4 — a cultural and political alliance of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia — used to be seen as a prime example of how countries with an authoritarian past could be drawn into the liberal and democratic Western style...
by Sarah Ampolsk | Apr 29, 2019 | American University
by Sarah Ampolsk In observing the elections that have taken place on the European continent thus far in 2019, two countries stand out. The first is Slovakia, one of the four central European “Visegrad” countries, which – along with neighboring Czech...