Racial Reparations aim to close the wealth gap between minorities and the rest of the population, that stems from slavery and the systematic injustices that followed. However, many European Americans …
Chinese Spies and the “China Initiative”: How Protection From Foreign Threats Can Harm Our Democracy
On January 20th of this year, the Justice Department dropped all of its charges against Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Gang Chen, conceding that their evidence no longer met the …
Pre-Existing Condition: Scars from Apartheid Keep a Young Democracy Down
Just because a new government 'checks all the boxes' of a democracy doesn’t mean it’s going to run smoothly. The conditions under which a democratic society is born have lasting impacts on the …
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Use of discriminatory Voter Policy to suppress African Americans
by Rajdeep Singh In response to: “The Black-White Wealth Gap Is Unchanged after Half a Century”, The Economist A liberal democracy is one that not only acts upon the desires of the …
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Zuma’s out, so where does this leave South Africa’s democracy? by Ruchi Kirtikar @ Columbia University
Nietzsche has likened corruption to the annual arrival of autumn. In some countries, this changing season may be manufactured by a coup, the potential beginning of democratic backsliding. In others, …
Bright Line Watch: Who Is Rating Our Democracy? by Max Mapes @ Skidmore College
"At a time of potential danger to American democratic norms and institutions, it is more urgent than ever for scholars to highlight the risks to our system of government." According to Bright Line …
In Alabama, Democracy Defeats Theocracy by Jonathan Silin @ Brown University
Doug Jones’s upset victory against Roy Moore in Tuesday’s Senate election in Alabama was more than a victory of blue over red. In this blog post I will argue that Jones’s victory is a victory for the …
