Max Pushkin ’22.5 and Ben Lipson ’22.5 are two of the co-founders of Make Room, a grassroots political action committee. On a cloudy June...

As the majority of US voters celebrate President-elect Joe Biden’s seemingly convincing victory in last week’s election, political...

Freedom House, a nonpartisan watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and documenting the progress of democracy,...

Shamima Begum, a British citizen born to Bangladeshi parents, recently lost the first stage of her appeal to retain British citizenship....

Political insults in South Korea make American politics look tame. Liberals call conservatives “authoritarian pro-Japanese traitors,”...

Tsai Ing-wen triumphed over challenger Han Kuo-yu in January and sealed her second term as President of Taiwan. Tsai, of the Democratic...

Like most Latin American countries, Ecuador recently has experienced a massive shift in the political ideology in the aftermath of its...

A group of Providence students and parents just made national news by suing Rhode Island. They allege that the state’s failure to provide...

The growing presence of ‘fake news’ has drastically changed political discussions, with many fearing the larger ramifications of its...

If you find yourself voting in Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina or Utah, you might be...

In classrooms across the United States, American children learn the basic structure of their government, a system comprised of three...

Colombia is facing one of its most turbulent election cycles in recent years. This is the first vote in which the Fuerza Armada...

In the relatively peaceful world of European politics, governments rarely reach into the toolbox of physical coercion. After all, sending...

The Kyrgyz Republic, a small mountainous country in Central Asia, has been through multiple violent revolutions, in both 2005 and...

When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) gathered in Kuala Lumpur in 2015 to select the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics, it...

Democracy has become synonymous with purity and equality around the world. Many countries around the world incorporate components of...

At times called the “Switzerland of Latin America,” Costa Rica boasts thriving industrial and tourism sectors, a robust universal health...

Lost amidst the perpetual scandals, ruthless mudslinging, and overall unprecedented nature of the 2016 American Presidential election was...

The declaration that “tyranny naturally arises out of democracy” is the famous, anti-democratic thesis of Plato’s Republic. While the...

Photo Credit: Nina Subin Ron Chernow is a best-selling author and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his biography of George...