Aziz Rana is Professor of Law at Cornell University and author of The Two Faces of American Freedom.
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Aziz Rana is Professor of Law at Cornell University and author of The Two Faces of American Freedom.
Could Trump's repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?
Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.
Elections are now used to legitimate authoritarian regimes, not herald liberal democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Kenya.
Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.
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