William Jennings Bryan during the 1896 campaign for U.S. president / U.S. Information Agency, Wikimedia Commons For...
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From “A full and complete account of the late awful riots in Philadelphia : embellished with ten engravings”, part...
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Congressional midterm election spending will likely hit a record $5 billion. But the spending masks the main problem with US campaign financing: who...
The “recent acceleration of voter suppression – fuelled by public fear, sanctioned by the judiciary, and supported...
The documentary Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook can be streamed online for free through Nov. 13, 2018. (Photo: Rigged) “The...
Kleroterion: This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
The Acropolis of Athens. Dominating the acropolis is the Parthenon, built between 447 and 432 BCE in the Age of Pericles, and...
Photo by Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung / Wikimedia Commons Examining right wing populist communicative performances. By (left-to-right) Dr. Mats Ekström, Dr....
Unsplash There is a vast ecosystem of toxic online content. By Chloe Reichel / 10.30.2018 Shortly before the...
A protester is arrested by Capitol Hill Police during the Kavanaugh nomination. AP/Alex Brandon A polarized electorate is...
Shutterstock Is your state working to increase accessibility to the ballot box, or to disenfranchise its citizens?...
If Bolsonaro ascends to the Brazilian presidency, the danger of Latin America shifting further toward another right-wing...
Adolf Hitler and his entourage take a stroll in Paris on June 23, 1940 / German Federal...
Map of the Peterloo Massacre depicting the location and movements of protestors and soldiers at St Peter’s...
Pottery ostraka identifying Themistocles, 482 BCE. These were used in Athens to vote a particular citizen to be ostracised from the polis....
Many pollsters have been asked to explain why they didn’t better predict the 2016 election. 3dfoto/shutterstock.com When political polls are...
Photo by Tomas Sobek, Unsplash Deliberation and discussion between people with open minds is the cornerstone of...
Dolly the elephant and Dottie the donkey. AP Photo/Bob Schutz The true number of people who do not...
Protesters kick in the window at Concordia University as they try to stop a speech by former...
It is more than an inalienable individual right; it is fundamental to human progress. That is why...
This great writer, great naturalist, and great advocate of self-reliant individualism was also one of the founding fathers...
Rose Schneiderman, an unsung forerunner of the #MeToo movement, organized women to fight for laws to protect...
(Left-to-right) Carrie Clyde Holly, Clara Cresshingham and Frances Klock They had to convince a majority of men in...
America’s founding fathers read intently Gibbon’s account of how Augustus eviscerated the Roman republic’s remaining premises even...
Ostraka for Ostracism / Museum of the Ancient Agora, Wikimedia Commons Although the Greek city-states differed in...
What do fascists do before they manage to establish a fascist dictatorship? By Marc Brodine / 01.12.2017...
Image by Dr. Case, Flickr, Creative Commons Léonie de Jonge (PhD candidate in the Department of Politics...
Tea Party protest at the National Mall on September 12, 2009 / Photo by NYyankees51, Wikimedia Commons...
“The Lucy Furnaces in 1886.” Carnegie Steel Company, Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania / Wikimedia Commons As the United...
Radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine advocated a republic: a state without a king. By Dr. P. Scott Corbett,...