by Mariana Vasquez | Oct 17, 2026 | George Mason University
On December 7th, 2022, Pedro Castillo—then President of Peru—went on live television. What should’ve been a routine presidential address turned into horror: he announced he was dissolving Congress and would rule by decree. Within the hour, his own cabinet started...
by Kaylee Pickering | Oct 9, 2026 | Boston University
NAZA is the Hebrew acronym used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to code collateral damage: a quantifiable and ‘acceptable’ loss of civilian life yielded while targeting suspected Hamas militants since the merciless Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023...
by Sebastian Auld | Oct 7, 2026 | Boston University
Péter Magyar’s Tisza government says it is dismantling the system Viktor Orbán built over sixteen years. Several of its tools are the ones this course treats as warning signs of democratic erosion: constitutional amendments that removed Orbán-era officeholders,...
by Evana Marshall | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
On Friday, September 25th, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to make use of the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to screen state voter lists for possible noncitizens temporarily....
by Tate Michimoto-Toma | Oct 2, 2026 | Boston University
Ahead of the November 3rd midterm elections, President Trump aired three commercials trumpeting American exceptionalism, but they drew bipartisan criticism. Concerns about misuse of taxpayer dollars and the messaging used raise questions about the Trump...
