by Andrej Prokolab | May 25, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
With the increasing polarization of Americans, and the newfound wave of popular support for far-right populism as birthed by Donald Trump and his supporters, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ward off disinformation and reconcile the misled masses as all...
by Maggie Pierce | May 24, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
President Lopez Obrador uses the process intended to remove an unpopular President from office to instead reinforce his supposed popularity. On April 10, 2022 Mexico held a Presidential recall election – the first of its kind – which President Lopez...
by Justin Vargas | May 6, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
January 6th, 2021 is a day that Americans will not soon forget. The United States experienced an attack on its democracy as violent protestors stormed the Capitol, spurred by an unfounded belief that the election of the 46th President of the United States had been...
by Augustus Bayard | May 4, 2022 | Brown University
The rise of former U.S. President Donald Trump spawned a veritable cottage industry of books purported to offer confused Trump opponents insight into what his supporters were thinking. The New York Times lists as examples George Packer’s The Unwinding, Arlie Russell...
by Jacob Duarte | May 4, 2022 | University of California, San Diego
Strong democratic institutions were not created from the standpoint of governments being comprised of moral representatives focused on only the collective good. If our elected officials were always noble there would be no justification to implement a system of checks...
