by Stephanie Moran | Apr 19, 2026 | Suffolk University
The United States has always had a fair democracy, but in a year our democracy has fallen. One President has made tremendous changes, but many of these changes haven’t been good for us as American Citizens. The democracy of the United States has been at hands...
by Kevin Liao | Dec 8, 2022 | Boston University
Context On December 2nd, Elon Musk retweeted a thread which was posted at Musk’s behest by Matt Taibbi, called The “Twitter Files.” The thread details the censorship Twitter executives engaged in during the 2020 election. The censorship is concerned with a New York...
by Dylan Molloy | Dec 4, 2022 | SUNY-Binghamton
“Elon Musk he’s such a f***ing moron” (Conover, 2022) said Adam Conover in relation to Elon Musk on the Trillionaire Pod, a podcast. Elon Musk who recently bought Twitter in an effort to “clean house” of its woke ideological agenda and to “bring free speech back” to...
by Brandon Moran | Mar 12, 2021 | Northeastern University
After months of being accused as an authoritarian, President Nayib Bukele has now established a supermajority in legislative seats. This unprecedented power has allowed his party and a small allied party, GANA-New Ideas, to appoint a new attorney general and five...
by Stasya Rodionova | Nov 13, 2020 | University of Chicago
In the grand scheme of checks and balances on authoritarian tendencies, the media ideally plays an impartial role as a guardrail against democratic backsliding. 2016 posed a unique challenge to this system in the U.S. Then Republican-nominee Donald Trump’s claims and...
