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After 22 wonderful years, I’ve decided to take the exciting and terrifying step of leaving in order to try to build something ...

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Smith College Professor Michael Thurston uncovers how one influential critic helped shape the early American literary landscape As difficult as it might be to believe today, there wasn’t much support ...

Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril?

Democracy” is one of the most frequently invoked yet least understood words in contemporary politics. It is used to praise, warn, accuse and moralize. We hear that democracy is “under threat” or that ...

How inevitable is the decline of liberal democracy? For a brief, heady moment after the Cold War, liberal democracy seemed ...

Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role ...

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire . ndash; Gustav Mahler Introduction From time immemorial, chieftaincy has been at the heart of governance in Ghana .

Across headlines and political speeches, we hear constant warnings about the “end” or “collapse” of democracy. The assumption is clear: democracy is a ...

The United States is under siege, not by a foreign enemy, but by the Trump administration, which has transformed governance itself into a form of domestic terrorism in the service of a white ...