By Linus Höller, Northwestern University In the most unusual year of the current millennium, democracy and freedoms around the world suffered at an unprecedented level. This becomes apparent from two … Read More
By Linus Hoeller, Northwestern University The concept of American decline has been around for about as long as America has been a global power. This is not surprising; when you … Read More
By Linus Hoeller, Northwestern University Few political words raise such intense emotions as “communism” and “socialism.” A common buzzword in elections in the U.S. and around the world alike, they … Read More
Linus Hoeller, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism Historical overview of the region’s democratization and backsliding When the “communist” dictatorships of Eastern Europe fell, one by one, in 1989 – … Read More
Linus HoellerNorthwestern UniversityReporting on the ground from the nation’s third-largest city, Chicago Nearly three weeks after an eventful election in the former British colony known formally as the United States … Read More
For those Americans who wield power in society, the cost of breaking with America’s foundational ideology – arrogance – is greater than the benefits, allowing American exceptionalism to be a … Read More
How Trump and Covid have sowed division and fear of violence in Chicago’s suburbia and around the country
Written by Linus Hoeller Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch Lea este artículo en Español 2020 has already been a year marked by incredible societal change, induced by the Covid-19 … Read More
By Linus Hoeller Title image: a man looks at a list of PiS scandals on display outside the presidential palace in the week leading up to the election. (Linus Hoeller … Read More
Protests and riots erupted in countless U.S. cities for the fourth night following the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed, black American. One of the police officers involved in the … Read More
