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India’s Distorted History: Was It Ever A Strong Democracy?
India, the world’s largest democracy, seems to be slowly but surely falling into a state of restricted freedom under the control of the...
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Apr 30, 20236 min read


OBIdients: A Light In The Dark for Nigeria
Nigeria is the world’s sixth-most populous country and the most populous nation in Africa. And, since the end of military rule in 1999,...
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Mar 31, 20235 min read


Nairas in; Votes Out: The 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election and the (Un)Democratic State of the Af
The hands of a businessman peek through a well-ironed suit. Clutched in his right is a large stack of Nigerian naira. The businessman...
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Mar 16, 20235 min read


The Chilean Democracy: Unwritten and Thriving
In 2019, Chilean citizens took to the streets in one of the largest anti-government protests in the nation’s young democratic history....
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Feb 15, 20234 min read


Everyday He’s Hustlin’
“A village boy has become the president of Kenya,” William Ruto proclaimed during his September 13 victory speech. A crowd of tens of...
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Feb 5, 20235 min read


Three Prime Ministers, Two Resignations, One Crisis of Legitimacy, and No General Election
The current political situation in the United Kingdom is in disarray. Uncertainty reigns throughout Parliament as it reels from Prime...
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Jan 6, 20235 min read


The 2022 Midterms: A Victory for Normalcy
As the dust settles on another midterm election, several winners have emerged from this year’s remarkably fluid congressional contests....
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Dec 9, 20224 min read


Democracy In Decline: How BJP Has Caused India’s Fall From Freedom
At the 2021 International Summit for Democracy, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched his address by stating he was “proud to...
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Dec 9, 20225 min read


Burying the Hatchet in South Korea’s Thousand-Year Turf War
This past March, South Koreans elected former anti-corruption prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol as their next president. Yoon, an opposition...
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May 4, 20224 min read


When They Go Low, We Go…
A decade ago, Republicans swept the 2010 midterm elections, flipping 63 House seats and a staggering 720 state legislative seats across...
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Apr 28, 20225 min read


West African Winter: Why Sanctions Won’t Work
“Today, apart from vegetables, nothing is affordable in the market. Neither onions nor oil, let alone meat.” – Fane Tenin Berthe, local...
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Apr 15, 20225 min read


Castillo’s Turmoil: How Institutions Hamper Peru’s New Leader
“Open the door so the next bicentennial is full of hope, with a future and a vision for a country in which we all enjoy and eat from the...
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Mar 25, 20224 min read


Fear and Loathing in Central Pennsylvania: School Boards and the Polarization of American Politics
On a Wednesday night last August, the Shippensburg Area School Board held a special meeting. The nine members sat behind a table in the...
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Mar 22, 20227 min read


We Need to Regulate Social Media Content Moderation, But We Can’t Just Eliminate Section 230(c).
The dangerous facilitation of disinformation and misinformation online is now a defining characteristic of social media platforms....
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Mar 14, 20224 min read


How Japan’s Electoral System Promotes Patronage and Undermines Democracy
For all but four years since its formation in 1955, Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has maintained a firm grip on Japanese...
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Dec 8, 20215 min read


Canada: A Democracy in Decline?
Although Canada’s recent federal election was anticlimactic, it demonstrated the ways that Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system...
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Oct 28, 20214 min read


Against Absolutes: The Endurance of Eswatini’s Anti-Monarchy Movement
The king must go. This is the sentiment sprayed onto shop walls, shared on WhatsApp statuses, and chanted across the Kingdom of Eswatini....
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Oct 23, 20215 min read


America, Iran, and the Prospects for Partnership: An Interview with Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and journalist who spent more than twenty years working for The New York Times, primarily as a...
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Apr 14, 202116 min read


We Should Chat: How online disinformation impacts the democratic participation of first-generation
“George Soros backed the violence in Charlottesville.” “Liberal media threatens to violently destroy Mount Rushmore.” You have probably...
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Mar 14, 20216 min read


Democracy in Peril: What the Farmers’ Protest Saga Reveals About P.M. Modi’s India
Political opponents jailed. Press censored. Civil liberties restricted. Human rights abused. All in response to widespread protests...
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Mar 9, 20216 min read
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