The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy hosted the former U.S. ambassador to Panama John Feeley for a ‘Lunch & Learn’ event covering the “State of Democracy in the Western Hemisphere”...
The September 30th weekend marked the inauguration celebrations of Nashville’s 10th Mayor, Democrat Freddie O'Connell. The results came after a 64% landslide victory in the runoff election against his...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva—or “Lula”—has beaten out Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s most recent presidential election. In the election, Lula secured 50.8 percent of the votes while Bolsonaro was just...
The Catholic Church in Nicaragua is under attack. In less than four years, the Catholic Church has endured over 190 attacks and desecrations. This shift in religious presence is unprecedented for Nicaragua,...
A divided country, Chile recently rejected a proposed left-leaning constitution that held the potential for a historical shift. Written entirely from scratch, the constitution could have become the most...
After two rounds of voting, Gabriel Boric, a 35 year-old progressive legislator, was elected to be the next Chilean presidential. Boric, relatively young and inexperienced, ran on an agenda that contrasts...
Jovenel Moise, the current president of Haiti, is becoming autocratic and staying in office longer than he should. Moise has destroyed democratic institutions, ruined Haiti’s economy, and deteriorated...
The Venezuelan crisis has been steadily intensifying, and the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University has something to say about it. Instead of taking to Facebook or Instagram, Conductor Thomas...
Last week, the United States imposed sanctions against Venezuela’s state-run oil company in the latest blow to President Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Since being sworn-in for his second six-year term...
Late Sunday night, Canada agreed to join the newest version of NAFTA, which was already signed on by the U.S. and Mexico last month. Officially to be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or...
For most Americans, it is a simple fact of life that most of us can’t name all the countries that the United States is currently involved in, as the list stretches from Africa to Europe to the Pacific....
As a case that could have grand consequences for the Puerto Rican government and its citizens, Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle appears at face value to be a standard case. The facts of the case involve two...
