Germany doesn’t elect its leaders based on charisma. Descriptions of Angela Merkel, like many adjectives thrown around German affairs, consist of stoic, calm, and unemotional,…
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This coming April, French voters will elect their new president. While the election is still months away and not all candidates have been announced, speculation…
Why do we see brutal images and aggressive tactics against immigrants under the Biden Administration? Is US immigration policy just going to be a continuation…
Over the past few months, many organisations in Russia have been faced with new pressures from the government which severely limit their ability to function.…
“I saw bruises that covered their entire bodies…I was particularly struck by a bruise on the face of one of the patients. It had the…
“This bill is being pushed through at the same time that the people across the United States are demanding the abolition of the prison industrial…
“I don’t vote because I feel like it won’t make a difference,” says Melody, a Filipino-American college graduate. Melody is a 22-year-old California native. Although…
Imagine voting on Election Day; the process, you expect, will take under fifteen minutes. For thousands of voters, this is tragically just an empty wish…
It is one of the world’s most tragic ironies that the most detrimental impacts of climate change will accrue to the countries that have had…
It’s no secret that Americans are extremely anxious about the current state of our political system. Our reasons for this are varied, but perhaps the…
Imran Khan is a cricket-star-turned-politician who used a mixture of religious zeal and anti-corruption anger to catapult himself from the cricket ground to the office…
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern portion of the United States. The disaster resulted in thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damage,…
By Jacob Ganz The following article was written for Berkeley Political Review as part of a monthly collaboration with Davis Political Review. Jerry Brown is California’s indomitable…
On July 4th, 1776, the Founding Fathers gathered in Philadelphia to draft the Declaration of Independence, separating the colonies from the oppressive British monarchy on…
A couple weeks ago, Lissa Lucas, a Democratic political candidate for the West Virginia House of Delegates, was physically dragged off the House Chambers floor…
Picture this: a young man, branded with a nondescript sign on his chest, being paraded through villages and neighbourhoods as he only just manages to…
A conservative wind is sweeping through the so-called Western liberal democracies- staunching liberal reform and creating a political conversion of protectionism intertwined in a nationalistic…
What a bitter runoff between Argentine frontrunners means for its democracy At the first Democratic National Debate, Bernie Sanders knowingly quipped that people would be…