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Volodomyr Zelensky celebrating his landslide victory Sunday evening.

Ukraine elects a comedian president

On Sunday, Ukraine went to the polls in the second round of its presidential election and, in an outcome that, although predicted by all the polls, was nevertheless stunning, elected Volodymyr Zelensky, a 41-year-old actor and comedian with no previous political experience, in a landslide over...

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Yale political scientist gauges impact of foreign meddling on voter trust

The Mueller probe into Russian election meddling has concluded, but the extent to which the Kremlin’s hackers and social-media trolls eroded voters’ confidence in the U.S. electoral system remains unclear.

Yale political scientist ...

Study documents electoral corruption in Hungary

Politicians and powerbrokers in Hungary use a variety of illicit election strategies to secure people’s votes, including making access to public benefits contingent on supporting preferred candidates, according to a new study co-authored by Yale political scientist ...

Brexit expert Bogdanor on “Britain and Europe in a Troubled World”

The MacMillan Center and Yale University Press hosted Vernon Bogdanor CBE for a series of four lectures on “Britain and Europe in a Troubled World” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs earlier this month. Bogdanor is an expert on Brexit and one of Britain’s foremost constitutional...

Karin Zipf, Bruce Berger, Susan King, and Ambassador Luis C. deBaca (ret.)

Prosecuting slavery in a time of freedom: Late 20th century enforcement of the 13th amendment

On April 10, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, hosted a panel discussion titled “Prosecuting Slavery in a Time of Freedom: Late 20th Century Enforcement of the 13th Amendment.” The panel featured three...

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