On the 10th of February, around 400 protestors gathered near the Democracy Monument in Bangkok to protest against the military junta currently ruling Thailand. They called on the military rulers to …
Lending an Ear to Ukrainian Populism
As Ukraine waits to recover from the social unrest sparked by 2014’s Maidan Revolution and pro-Russian unrest in the Donbas region, it has become painfully evident that eradicating the corrupt …
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On Polarization and Patriotism: Chasms in American Democracy by Dakota Fenn @ Brown University
In this post, I hope to accomplish two related but separate goals. First, I’ll show you why political polarization is a viable threat to democracy. Second, using data from Bright Line Watch surveys, I …
Myanmar’s Transition to Democracy: Is Illiberalism a “Bump in the Road?” By Rachel Risoleo @Brown University
Max Fisher of the New York Times recently noted that although Myanmar was once a beacon of democratic transition from a recently de-militarized state, it is now a “study in how it [democracy] fails.” …
The Fluid Russian Propaganda by Artur Avkhadiev @ Brown University
State propaganda organizes the society in a form least conflicting with the state’s objectives. The propaganda’s content is a utilitarian, rather than ideological, concern. Ideology is valuable …
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Catching the “Bad Hombres”: The United States undermines its own efforts by Roxana Sanchez @ Brown University
Trump’s infamous comments during the 2016 presidential elections about Mexican immigrants and his stubborn efforts to build an expensive wall on the US-Mexico border are not reflective of true …