by Brendan Green | Apr 23, 2022 | Boston University
Faced with the threat of a no-confidence vote in parliament that he was likely to lose, Prime Minister Imran Khan, in an attempt to block his ouster, sent shockwaves through Pakistan by dissolving the National Assembly on April 3rd, 2022. In a televised speech, Khan...
by Arpan Anand | Apr 22, 2022 | Boston University
Many would characterize India as the world’s largest democracy. Even the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has called India “The mother of all democracies.” However, it seems as though that the world’s largest democracy has become one of the largest examples of...
by Ella Shakin | Apr 22, 2022 | Boston University
Marine Le Pen’s populist-nationalist tactics, anti-immigration, and xenophobic sentiment could damage French democracy if she were to be elected in the April 24th runoff elections. As political scientist Joseph Schumpeter writes, the classical doctrine of...
by Elle M | Apr 20, 2022 | Rollins College
QAnon, a political conspiracy movement, has grown in popularity in recent years among political right extremists. According to the Grid investigative journalist Steve Riley–an expert on threats to democracy–data visualization reporter Matt Stiles, and...
by Tiffany R | Apr 20, 2022 | Rollins College
Alex Jones’s job consists of profiting off of formulating outlandish conspiracy theories, exploiting national tragedies, and eliciting emotions such as fear and anger in his audience. But it’s all a harmless business endeavor, right? Wrong. His extremist conspiracy...
