Democracy has faced significant challenges in recent times. Donald Trump, a well-known populist, won the U.S. presidential election and was…
Migrants’ Remittances and the Host Country Billions of dollars cross national borders every day. These financial flows take different forms…
Sometimes technological backwardness is a blessing. A backward country doesn’t need homegrown science to invent a new technology or domestic…
In August 2023, the ruling party of Zimbabwe—the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)—won the national elections once again. This…
Anti-immigrant rhetoric is on the rise in many countries. Often, we assume that this rhetoric is based on racism or…
Political scientists have often debated the role of propaganda in autocracies. For some, propaganda is primarily a tool of persuasion,…
The fall of a totalitarian or authoritarian regime and its replacement by democracy represents a momentous political shift. Yet, while…
On June 17, 2015, an avowed white supremacist opened fire on an evening prayer service being held at the Emanuel…
To fight climate change, the world will need to quintuple production of certain minerals. We need cobalt and lithium for…
International development actors–such as donor and lender governments, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), firms, and local governments–have strong incentives to cultivate…
