Tag: Democracy
The ‘warrior ethos’ promises victory — history says it leads to defeat
John Broich, Case Western Reserve University
At Marine Corps Base Quantico in September 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised...
Justice Department’s effort to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans could face...
Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University and Irina D. Manta, Hofstra University
The Justice Department has identified 384...
Lebanon’s political elites are using displacement and humanitarian crisis to delay...
Jasmin Lilian Diab, Lebanese American University
Lebanon was meant to be preparing for key parliamentary elections in May 2026....
‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people...
Jennifer Lynn McCoy, Georgia State University
In the face of widespread pessimism about the political fate of the United...
2026 begins with an increasingly autocratic United States rising on the...
Shelley Inglis, Rutgers University
The U.S. military operation in Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3,...
Local democracy is holding strong, but rural communities are falling behind,...
Stephanie Leiser, University of Michigan
According to our recent survey of officials in Michigan communities, local democracy is humming...
Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to...
Yonatan Morse, University of Connecticut
Autocratic leaders in Africa like their numbers to be in the high 90s, it...
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided...
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State
The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything...
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
