by Alia Arnold | Oct 12, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
In mid-September of this year Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman was taken into police custody and died shortly after. The police stated that Mahsa Amini had a heart attack and that was the cause of her death. Although Amini’s brother, Kiarash Amini was outside the...
by Matthew Beylinson | Mar 24, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
In 1982 term limits were imposed on the office of the President of China. They were created by Deng Xiaoping (then president of China) to prevent another Mao-style autocrat from coming into power and dominating Chinese politics. Xiaoping did not blame Mao...
by Parker Berke | Feb 26, 2022 | University of Chicago
It is common for people to look at the destruction of foreign nations’ democratic institutions with confusion. They wonder how anyone could sit back and allow their government to be destroyed, or not realize the problems happening before their eyes. However, it is not...
by Jing Tzsuen Kua | Feb 16, 2022 | Boston University
How Malaysia fell victim to stealth authoritarianism in the midst of the pandemic, and what us Malaysians should can do moving forward. The Southeast Asia region is still reeling from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Whilst nations such as Indonesia and Thailand were committing...
by Dylan Page | Feb 14, 2022 | Ohio State University
It has been over a year since this image was burned into the minds of Americans. Many remember the revolting pictures of flames and smoke looming over the Capitol on the evening of January 6th, 2021. Today, we think back as a nation to how we got to that point, and I...
