by James Lyons | Oct 14, 2020 | Northeastern University
The United States is not a democracy. Though some tout the US as a beacon of representative democracy in the world where economic prosperity is all but guaranteed to those who seek it, those people are most often white Americans. For them, the barriers to democratic...
by Chase Duncan | Oct 13, 2020 | University of Georgia
The president’s recent invocation of The Proud Boys at the presidential debate is an escalation in the erosion of democratic norms by appealing directly to a violent street politics group. This escalation is notable because it represents Trump’s most explicit...
by J.C. Gonzalez | Oct 13, 2020 | University of Georgia
Dating back to Chief Justice John Marshall’s revolutionary decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803), the United States Supreme Court has actively avoided being used as a pawn in political brinksmanship. Maintaining the integrity and legitimacy of the courts has been a...
by Jamie Horowitz | May 28, 2020 | Arizona State University
Disinformation is everywhere, originates from anywhere, and threatens everyone. From Hillary Clinton’s “pizzagate”during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election to 5G radio towers spreading the coronavirus, fake stories have proliferated in the last 4 years. In 2016,...
by Adriana Moreno | May 6, 2020 | Georgia State University, Georgia State University Perimeter College
When you think about Democratic Erosion, you usually think about countries, but the threat has always been at home and polarizing at the state level. We have reached a new troubling time in our Democracy, especially in the state of Georgia, in terms of the midterm...
