by Miko Ukaji | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
Revisiting Japan’s Democratic Stagnation Populism is often portrayed as a toxin to democracy—an anti-pluralist, anti-institutional movement that undermines liberal norms. Yet, in certain contexts, it may function more like a bitter medicine: unpleasant and risky, but...
by Cassandra Fitts | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
A social security master-list previously known as the ‘Death Master List’ meant for invalidating the social security numbers of deceased individuals is being repurposed in the Trump Administrations newest attempt to halt immigration. Immigrants legally authorized to...
by Joshua Marsh | Apr 17, 2025 | Boston University
Firewalls and regional equivalents to it have recently come under heavy strain as nationalist far-right parties have found themselves relative electoral success in the past two years in Central and Western Europe. As it is used in the non-technological setting, the...
by Sofia Samoilova | Apr 17, 2025 | Tartu University
On October 10th, 2024 I ordered the freshly released Boris Johnson memoir, Unleashed (Croft,2024). None of my relatives or friends from the UK, nor any of my classmates, paid any attention to this book—except for me, just because it was placed on bookshelves the same...
by Jamieson Smith | Feb 14, 2025 | Boston University
No longer the “Shining City Upon a Hill” as President Reagan proudly claimed in his parting note in 1989, the U.S. has been demoted from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy” – an indictment of the so-called uniqueness of...
