Next Stop on the Populist Wave – French Elections
With just a few days left before the French Presidential election, many are anxious to see whether the wave of nationalist populism seen in the United […]
Politics
Candidate Moon Jae-in: The good, the bad and the ugly
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed the impeached president, Park Geun-hye, from office, and a general election for the new president will take place in May. […]
The Echo Chambers of the Internet
“(Technologies such as social media) lets you go off with like-minded people, so you’re not mixing and sharing and understanding other points of view … […]
Too Much Politics: The South Korean presidential crisis
The South Korean National Assembly impeached President Park Geun-hye in December with a 234-56 vote, shattering the mandated 200-vote threshold. It was at last a […]
Deep Sea Mining: Diamond in the rough, or Pandora’s box?
Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, Tenzing Norgay, Edmund Hillary. All are names of explorers famous for reaching places considered unreachable. Peary reached the North Pole in […]
Leaderless Spain: Ten months without an elected government
On November 3rd, 2016, Mariano Rajoy was re-elected as the Prime Minister of Spain. It was a long and complicated process. The Spanish general election […]
How Liberals Learned to Love Fox News
Fox News was born from a desire to counteract a perceived bias in the US media landscape. Its recently deposed chairman, Roger Ailes, set out […]
Cadres and Trials – How top Chinese officials get purged
Friday the 13th of May 2016 was a bad day for Ling Jihua. The former top aide to Hu Jintao was charged with “taking bribes, […]
Drumpf’s Yellow Perilism
During a rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 1st, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued that the United States “can’t continue to allow […]
Glory Days Ahead for Korea’s Filibuster?
The filibuster, a procedure used by legislative bodies around the globe to block or delay bills, is unfailingly a divisive issue. To some, it is […]