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Electoral Aftershocks
On February 6, 2023, a deadly series of earthquakes struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria, killing at least 50,000 people and...
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Apr 9, 20235 min read


Reforming Our Democracy – What We Learned from the 2020 Election and What Comes Next: An Inter
Lawrence Norden is the director of the Election Reform Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, where he leads the Center’s work in a...
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Nov 18, 202110 min read
Authoritarianism Revisited: The Peruvian Far-Right’s War Against Democracy
“The election will be flipped, dear friends,” Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori cried to her supporters, referring to an...
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Oct 27, 20214 min read


The Only Business Where the Players Are Also the Umpires: An Interview with Suraj Patel
Suraj Patel is an attorney, adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, and co-founder of Creative Caucus. A former Obama...
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Nov 1, 202012 min read


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How Polling Infrastructure is Failing America’s Voters
As the 2018 midterms loom large, many candidates and political organizations have worked tirelessly to get out the vote. Voting is the...
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Oct 12, 20185 min read


The Italian Election: the Challenges of Italexit
On Sunday, March 4th 2018, 46 million Italians voted to form the country’s 18th legislature and for the succession to a new government....
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Jul 12, 20185 min read
Devolution Dilemma: How the Franco-era State of Autonomies Jeopardizes Spain’s Unity
In the relatively peaceful world of European politics, governments rarely reach into the toolbox of physical coercion. After all, sending...
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Dec 14, 20176 min read


The Big Test: Assessing the Five Star Movement’s Roman Chance
When TV comedian Beppe Grillo and web activist Gianroberto Casaleggio started a political movement in 2009, few believed it would become...
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May 15, 20176 min read
Time to Listen: How the Post-Truth Ideology Can Close Liberal Ears
In 2017, “truth” seems to stand on shaky ground. President Trump contests the messages put forward by media outlets, rejects reports from...
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Apr 24, 20177 min read


The Billion-Year Rule: Gambia’s Election Crisis and the Case for Regional Intervention
President Yahya Jammeh told Gambia he would rule for a billion years. But on December 1, 2016, the Gambian people decided otherwise. In a...
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Apr 17, 20175 min read


Erdogan’s Paradox
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seems to have a knack for the unprecedented, a desire to chart his own path and challenge...
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Apr 14, 20177 min read


The Real Issues With Fake News
The 2016 US Presidential election was an unrelenting bloodbath — filled to the brim with scandal, defamation, and an overwhelming sense...
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Apr 2, 20177 min read


A New Democra-Tech Party
Apple. Google. Microsoft. Facebook. Twitter. Uber. Tesla. Netflix. eBay. Intel. On February 7th, over 100 American companies co-signed...
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Feb 25, 20174 min read


BPR Interviews: Ron Chernow
Photo Credit: Nina Subin Ron Chernow is a best-selling author and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his biography of George...
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Dec 16, 20165 min read


BPR Interviews: Ben King
Ben King is the cofounder and outreach director of Amish PAC, a super PAC for conservative Amish voters in swing states such as...
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Nov 13, 20164 min read


BPR Interviews: Tamara Keith
Photo Credit: Caitlin Sanders, NPR. Tamara Keith is a White House correspondent for NPR and is currently covering the presidential...
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Nov 13, 20163 min read


Penny for Your Vote?
The community members of Villa Soldati, a slum on the southwest end of Buenos Aires’ sprawling outskirts, are stuck between a rock and a...
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Dec 8, 20155 min read


Dealer’s Bluff
In a recent Gallup survey, respondents ranked different professions according to perceptions of honesty and ethical standards. Nurses hit...
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Dec 8, 20156 min read


Crime And (Over)Punishment
Due to a 1996 piece of legislation, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), stories like Valdez’s are...
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Dec 8, 20156 min read


Unrepresentative Democracy: Racial Gaps in Municipal Government
The crisis in Ferguson, Missouri over the summer became another flashpoint in the debate about race in the United States. The...
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Oct 28, 20143 min read
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