Topic: democracy
Did the CIA’s Instability Model Put the US in the Highest-Risk Category for Civil War, Coup, or Collapse?
The PITF model is CIA-funded and the US met its highest-risk criteria in 2020. But the CIA never scored the US — academics did. The US now ranks 51st globally, below all G7 peers.
Infrastructure and Ideology: Parsing the Tech-Elite Surveillance Claim
Palantir’s ICE contracts, Thiel’s ‘freedom and democracy are incompatible,’ and Yarvin’s autocracy blueprint are all real. The claim they form a coordinated plan is not proven.
The Immunity Machine: How Every Check on Trump Was Neutralized
Every institutional check on presidential power — DOJ, Congress, inspectors general, courts — has been systematically neutralized or captured between Trump’s first and second terms, creating a…
The Orban-Trump Comparison: A Non-Partisan Analysis of Parallel Governance Methods
Political scientists have documented specific structural parallels between Orban and Trump governance methods, but critical structural differences may determine whether the outcomes diverge.