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Number of articles: 3
First Article: September 25, 2026
Latest Article: October 30, 2026
Political scientists Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way recently released a paper on how the United States slid into a state of competitive authoritarianism.
“The United States descended into soft, competitive authoritarianism during Donald Trump’s second presidency. Regime change occurred …
Incendiary opinions and factional partisanship. There exists a collapse of democratic deliberation and a growth of resentment in our political dialogue. One Cambridge study found that polarization has increased by 64 percent from 1988 to 2024, with almost all of …
You don’t have to look far nowadays to see criticisms of higher education in the news. Related themes tend to be concerning rising tuition costs, grade inflation and the specialization and pre-professionalization of higher ed across the U.S. Just the …
