by Braden Jones | Nov 27, 2022 | Boston University
The Futures Forum On November 3, 2022, Germany hosted the inaugural Futures Forum in Muenster. The U.S. took part in the forum as part of a joint effort agreed upon in July 2021 by President Biden and then German Chancellor Angela Merkel to bring together an...
by Ryan Yong | Jul 24, 2022 | Dartmouth College
This month, former Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann revealed over 124,000 documents of extensive notes and messages between world leaders and Uber executives around the world, which laid the foundation to Uber’s rapid success. The Uber Files illustrate the importance of...
by Itai Grofman | Feb 3, 2022 | University of Chicago
In Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition, Robert Dahl posits “three necessary conditions for a democracy” [1]. Underlying all three conditions is the availability of “alternative sources of information” [2]. For this reason, it seemed – early in the information...
by Callie Fauntleroy | May 20, 2021 | George Washington University
On January 15, 2021, a popular messaging app called Signal, crashed globally. After WhatsApp altered its privacy agreement to share its data with Facebook, Signal saw a surge of new users, prompting the crash. This same day, the Iranian government created a ban on the...
by Iman Mohamed | Mar 24, 2021 | Georgia State University
Communication and social interactions are critical tools that can either solidify polarization or depolarize democracies at risk. Social relations inherently trickle down into the political discourse of every nation. This means that the status of these social...
