by Cassandra Fitts | Feb 12, 2025 | Boston University
Former Soviet satellite states that were once poster children for democratization following the decline of European communism have been making drastic pivots towards autocracy in recent years. In 1989 following the fall of the USSR, previously Soviet-occupied Hungary,...
by Ailey Costantino | Dec 5, 2024 | Brown University
It was a week after Donald Trump won the US 2024 Presidential Election. My little sister texted me frantically: “Mom keeps accusing Dad of voting for Trump. She can’t get off TikTok… She’s doom-scrolling every morning before work and every night after dinner for...
by nunez.146@osu.edu | Nov 4, 2024 | Ohio State University
In August of this year Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority blocked the social media platform Instagram as an effort to regulate access to the internet. With the rapid blocking of Instagram, a platform with over 50 million Turkish users out of...
by nunez.146@osu.edu | Oct 14, 2024 | Ohio State University
Through the Franklin County Democratic party, I had the opportunity to participate in several canvasing events this past month. On October 11th and 12th I canvased the Clintonville and Northland areas from 12- 2 pm as a part of their “knock on doors” campaign to...
by simmons.815@osu.edu | Oct 14, 2024 | Ohio State University
The League of Women Voters of Northern Portage County (LWVNPC), a small, hyperlocal voting rights and civic engagement group, operates at the edge of the Cleveland suburbs, where cul-de-sacs bleed into corn fields and asphalt turns to tar-and-chip. This intersection...
