By Zach Leggio and Mayerlyn Rivera Edition 7: April 15-21 Voters in India will participate in a six-week long national election in a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister of India. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)Upcoming India On Friday, April 19th, all 543 seats of the Lok Sabha parliament will begin statewide elections, which will elect the next prime minister. This election will bring over 900 million people to the polls, expected to be the most expensive in Indian history as millions of polling stations will be transported across the country. The election will take place over sev ..read more

By Ria Panneer Scottie Scheffler pictured at the green jacket ceremony after winning the 2024 Masters Tournament. Image from Golfweek. Courtesy of Adam Cairns-USA TODAY Network. “Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.” In this quote, Winston Churchill expressed the challenge of a game that never definitely submits to the skill of the player; however secure one’s position might be, golf would find some weak spot and again prevail. Every day in corporate settings, women in leadership deal with gendered ..read more

By Aviella Schwartz American dollar bills. Image from Stockvault. Courtesy of pxl666. In a capitalist system, free markets self-regulate and redistribute wealth without any assistance from government institutions. Even as disparities in income, education, and access to resources rise, America promises that no economy or government other than one functioning under capitalism, is better for one’s personal finances, one’s fiscal mobility, and the American collective on the whole. Even when the wealthiest five percent of Americans amass over two-thirds of the wealth in the United States, unwaverin ..read more

By Zach Leggio South Africa. Image from Pixabay Photo/Sharon Ang. When the Apartheid regime in South Africa began to crumble in the 1990s, the world became hopeful for a peaceful, democratic transition and for many years it looked to be a success. In 1994, South Africa elected Nelson Mandela as president, and Mandela’s African National Congress entered into power. The ANC had been instrumental in pushing for reform since the 1960s while Mandela was in prison for over thirty years. Its first years in government were full of activism and determination to undo the damage that the Apartheid regime ..read more

By Lauren Thacker Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko addresses the 26th Annual Session in Minsk, 5 July 2017. Image from Flickr. Courtesy of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. On February 25th, Belarus conducted its first elections since 2020, leading to mass protests and a crackdown on public dissent. These elections allowed Belarusians to select local government and parliament representatives. Though the elections didn’t involve the election of a president this year, as they had in 2020, they highlighted the staunch reality of what future elections may look like in the state. For example ..read more

By Leon Cohen 2024 Elections. 2024. Photograph from the New World Report. The United States has not seen a third-party candidate with significant impact since Ross Perot in 1992. Yet, polling shows a steady increase in Americans willing to vote for a third-party candidate, with recent data showing upwards of 63%. While this sentiment has grown throughout the voter base, the landscape for national elections has become a duopoly between the Republicans and Democrats, who have changed the rules. They’ve done this in two ways: first, by forcing independent candidates to gather signatures to “quali ..read more

By Zach Leggio and Mayerlyn Rivera Edition 6: April 6-14 Photo: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty ImagesUpcoming South Korea South Korea’s April 10 legislative elections could be a turning point for the remaining three years of President Yoon Sun Yeol’s term. Yoon’s People Power Party will face off against opposition leader Lee Jae-myung’s Democratic Party, which currently dominates the National Assembly. A sizable third group, the Rebuilding Korea Party, is running in addition to other smaller parties. Rebuilding Korea is led by Cho Kuk, a scandal-ridden former Minister of Justice who has been charge ..read more

By Shelby Watson Image from Pexels. Courtesy of Element5 Digital. The participation of college students in the democratic process is imperative. Not only will the local representatives they elect affect their lives while attending college, but those same officials will likely influence the first stages of their adult life after higher education as well. Students attending colleges in-state are free to vote for candidates who most directly affect their campus communities, but out-of-state students do not always have this luxury. In the state of Georgia, out-of-state students have the option to ..read more

by Mayerlyn Rivera El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, left, accompanied by his wife Gabriela Rodriguez, wave to supporters from the balcony of the presidential palace in San Salvador, El Salvador, after polls closed for general elections on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. El Salvador President Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases, electoral officials announced Monday, Feb. 19. Photo Credit: AP Photo/Salvador Melendez. “Bukele! Bukele! Bukele!”, these are the chants San Salvador, El Salvador heard on the night of the presidential ..read more

By Annalyn Both Image from Pexels. Courtesy of Polina Kovaleva. Over the last several years, human rights have been at the heart of much of the widely known international news. The #BoycottMulan campaign, which began in 2019, was a response to a comment by the film’s star supporting Hong Kong police in their crackdown on political demonstrations. The film also drew negative media attention for its use of the Xinjiang region, where China is known to abridge the human rights of Uighurs. In 2022, international outcry arose when Iranian Mahsa Amini died as a result of brutality from the morality p ..read more