by Giacomo Ramos | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
Allying an anti-corruption and anti-communism discourse with a vague desire for change, Jair Messias Bolsonaro won the turbulent 2018 Brazilian presidential election, surpassing movements like #EleNão and #LulaLivre, which opposed Bolsonaro and demanded the release...
by Timmy Lee | Oct 23, 2020 | University of Chicago
On June 27, 2019, the US Supreme Court gave its ruling on two significant cases called Lamone v. Benisek and Rucho v. Common Cause. The reason why I am linking these two Supreme Court cases together is that they share two similarities: they revolve around the issue of...
by Matthew Mitchell | Oct 18, 2020 | Suffolk University
A few weeks ago, I was honored to have been a viewer of “America’s Divided Mind: Understanding the Psychology that Drives Us Apart”. This panel of experts raised a great deal of important ideas during their time, by which these past few years of politics have risen to...
by Tzion Jones | Oct 17, 2020 | Brown University
Just because a new government ‘checks all the boxes’ of a democracy doesn’t mean it’s going to run smoothly. The conditions under which a democratic society is born have lasting impacts on the quality of democracy. In the case of South Africa, decades of...
by Fiona Duenyas | May 28, 2020 | Koç University
“We are children of the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. And this is why we insist on permanently supporting the strengthening of the international system for the protection of human rights and the prosecution and conviction of those who violate them.” These...
