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The Failure of Law Enforcement in the Storming of the Capitol

Note: the research for this article was done for work with Rock the Vote. A similar article will be posted on Rock the Vote's Medium page...

Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents peels back the murky bureaucracy and many layers of socioeconomic relations in...

An intriguing phenomenon is shared by the US and by Russia – the veneration of a past fallen country diametrically opposed to the one...

We’ve seen that countries with female leaders have fared better in the midst of this global pandemic, probably due to their openness to a...

We can expect that tomorrow, August 1, there will be a huge protest in the Far East region of Russia, in the city of Khabarovsk. We can’t...

This is an article I wrote in July 2020 with a one-year follow-up I planned to write at the time. It is difficult for the Russian...

I recently graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Political Science and International and Area Studies,...