Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

Miller warns that liberal hopes in such checks and balances are misplaced. Far from a safeguard of democracy, she argues, ...

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Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.

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Graciana del Castillo is the author of Rebuilding War-Torn States (Oxford, 2008) and of Guilty Party: The International Community in Afghanistan (forthcoming, 2014). She was Senior Research Scholar, ...