by Ed Schmeltzer | Oct 22, 2020 | University of Chicago
By introducing the threat of violence through his refusal to condemn violent Alt-Right groups such as the Proud Boys, Donald Trump is undermining a fundamental norm behind the US electoral system: the promise of a peaceful transfer of power from one candidate to the...
by Madison Smrz | Oct 14, 2020 | University of Georgia
The sweeping reforms of Hugo Chávez not only initiated democratic breakdown within Venezuela, but also signaled a rise in opposition against the increasingly authoritarian regime that remains prevalent to this day. Recently, rising violence in Venezuela by the current...
by David Scherrer | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
The intuitive approach to deterring criminal behavior is to punish it. But what if legal behavior were instead incentivized such that criminal activity lost some of its relative appeal? Years of escalating internal violence in Latin America despite, or because of,...
by Robert Combs | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
Outrage, shock and dismay greeted the publication of a report from El Faro news site claiming that El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele “cut deals” with the Mara Salvatrucha gang (MS-13) in order to reduce homicides and gain the gang’s political support (Washington...
by Jessica Gibson | Oct 27, 2019 | University of Memphis
Source: CNN During Friday Follies, Fox News Laura Ingraham describes the Democratic town hall on LGBTQ rights from the previous night as an event of shameless pandering by Democrats to the social justice warriors. Raymond Arroyo says, “Laura, it’s almost embarrassing...
