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By now, we know the pattern: A constitutional democracy, flawed but in reasonably good standing, is hit by a transformative election.
With the rise of populist political leaders in the West, such as President Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, the study of populism has become a central concern.
History confounds certainty. Barely a quarter century after the collapse of the Soviet empire, it is democracy that has entered an intense period of public scrutiny.
The act of terrorism and the state of democracy are related in complex, dimly understood ways.
The rule of law and the rule of God appear to be on a collision course.
Professors Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq, and Mila Versteeg (GHV) have written a mile-a-minute, and decidedly one-sided, account of the decline and fall of liberal constitutionalism throughout the world in the past generation.
Equality is guaranteed in every liberal-democratic constitution around the world, but inequality of wealth and income is widespread and on the rise.
The European Union was founded in the 1950s as an experiment in postwar regional integration, in part to help rebuild national economies damaged by World War II through economic integration, and in part to ward off, by means of closer legal and political integration of states, the threat of totalitarianism and Soviet expansion.
President Donald Trump’s ascendance to the White House has been understood as signaling a breakdown in American global leadership.
In the wake of World War II, liberal constitutionalism emerged as a default design choice for political systems across Europe and North America. It then diffused more widely across the globe as a whole.
Imagine you go to Toronto for a weekend trip with your family. While driving home to Detroit, a border agent pulls you aside, brings you into an isolated room, and asks you, seemingly out of nowhere, “How many times a day do you pray?”