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Despite its decreasing overall democracy scores, India has progressed forward with LGBT rights on the last decade. Still, LGBT activists and international organisations are not satisfied with the …
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The state of South Korea's democracy is precarious; instead of a positive trend of democratization, democratic erosion is the prevalent force. De-democratization with a myriad of names refers to the …
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For a long time, Lebanon has been synonymous for civil conflicts and sectarian clientelism; Lebanese citizens never had a high level of solidarity and sympathy across their various sects and regions. …
Jamaica’s democracy experienced three declines between 2010 and 2019. Specifically these declines began in 2011, 2015, and 2017. Within each decline Jamaica experienced either: vertical corruption, …
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The coronavirus outbreak raises some interesting questions for the social scientists and the general public. Most importantly, why are some countries more successful than the …
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Interview of Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, hosted by Anderson Cooper for CNN's Newsroom Have people not learned from the Tuskegee experiment which began in 1932? In the past few days, news …
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Navy Captain Brett Crozier addressing his crew in 2019 As of today, the world continues to be shut down as the entire international community scrambles to fight COVID-19, a fight that has become a …
Amidst the onset of an economic recession in 2008, former Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emmanual was quoted in the Wall Street Journal with his now-infamous phrase, “You never want a serious crisis to go to …
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