The 2023-24 cohort includes Jackelinne Claros Benitez '24 and Ignacio Gutierrez '25.
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"To fix anti-democratic attitudes by changing levels of partisan animosity sounds promising, but it is like trying to heal a broken bone in a gangrenous leg when the real problem is the car accident that caused both injuries in the first place," Associate Professor Sean Westwood, Director of the Polarization Research Lab tells The New York Times.
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"Attacking the legitimacy of past elections is of course a way to cast doubt on future elections. It's absurd to pretend otherwise," Professor Brendan Nyhan tells The Atlantic about Meta's decision to lift the Facebook ban on former president Donald Trump. Read the full article HERE!
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Are political concession speeches losing favor? Why does investigating misinformation often backfire? Can the courts safeguard U.S. democracy, and what new data could bolster the rule of law?
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"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new coalition government, which was sworn in last week, is routinely referred to as "extreme right," but this tortures the meaning of conservatism in a democracy.Thirty-two of the coalition's members in the Knesset (out of a hundred and twenty parliamentary seats) are disciples of so-called religious parties, the political arms of theocratic communities.These parties, and factions of parties, can be divided into three groups: The largest alliance, with fourteen seats, is religious Zionism, whose forebears were preoccupied with preserving the rabbinic pri
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