by Tully Campion | Apr 17, 2026 | Boston University
France’s Assemblée Nationale was set to debate an important bill for freedom of expression on April 16th. Though it was withdrawn before the debate, the government plans to introduce a similar law in June. The bill, dubbed the Yadan Law after its proposer, MP Caroline...
by Yidian Zhao | Dec 9, 2025 | University of Pittsburgh
In January 2025, a 30-year-old man from Chiang Rai, Thailand, Mongkol Thirakot, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after being accused of posting 27 Facebook posts related to Thailand’s monarchy. It is the heaviest sentence recorded so far under the country’s...
by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | Mar 15, 2022 | Brown University
Through the first two months of 2022, Canada has been in the midst of one of the most unforeseen political stories to emerge in years, a Vaccine mandate protest which has grown so confrontational in just one month that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the...
by Warren Epstein | Apr 18, 2019 | University of Chicago
Were the Blue and White Party generals attempting a promissory coup against an executive aggrandizing Likud Prime Minister? The rhetoric of military generals attempting to “protect” democracy and an executive aggrandizer desperate to maintain power In “On Democratic...
by NAM SIK YOO | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
Democracy has certainly been on the rise throughout the world during the past four decades. According to the Pew Research Center, 97 out of 167 countries (58%) with populations of at least 500,000 were democracies by the end of 2016. Only 21 out of 167 (13%) were...
