by Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie | May 3, 2019 | University of Chicago
On April 30th, the Sri Lankan government lifted a ban on social media it had put in place following the Easter attacks that had killed 253 people. Officials had initiated the ban in fear that social media platforms would be used to spread misinformation inciting...
by Selena Spencer | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
This piece argues against Francis Fukuyama’s famous piece “The End of History”. In February 1989 at the University of Chicago in room 122 of the Social Science Research Building, Francis Fukuyama gave a speech about the state of international...
by David Ardila | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Democratic erosion and authoritarian tendencies tend to go hand and hand with the executive power. Unlike the self-coups of years past executive aggrandizement has become more common as a way to cling to power in national government, where authoritarian leaders slowly...
by Isabet Tranchin | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
While propaganda in democracies have been studied for decades, the scope has widened to include other terms. Following disagreements between the media’s evidence and the White House Press Secretary about Trump’s inauguration turnout, it was revealed that...
by Omar Battisha | Apr 28, 2019 | University of Chicago
In 2018, for the first time in the 46 years that Freedom House’s global study of political freedom has been conducted, the United States failed to get a 1/7 rating (where 1 is most free and 7 is least free). To most political observers, the study’s results...
