A Vulnerable Erdoğan, Dominion v. Fox, and More

April 20, 2023

High school graduates raise their caps and diplomas at ceremony.

Racial disparities in the high school graduation gender gap

To track the national progress of U.S. students, the Department of Education requires states to report high school completion rates for the prior academic year. However, states are not required to report completion rates by sex and race. Richard Reeves and Simran Kalkat explain why this oversight should be addressed and share what they found in states that did provide this data.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech during a meeting of his ruling AK Party to announce the partys election manifesto.

Erdoğan is losing but the Turkish opposition is far from an assured victory

Amid economic turmoil and fallout from February’s devastating earthquake, Turkey will soon hold its presidential and parliamentary elections. President Erdoğan is exposed and vulnerable, but defeating his regime will not be an easy task for the opposition parties, Kemal Kirişci and Berk Esen warn.

Read in Democracy Paradox

A headline for a story on U.S. President Joe Biden is displayed at the Fox News headquarters in New York City.

Dominion v. Fox is just the beginning

“Dominion v. Fox is best understood not on its own, but as the most prominent example so far of a trend toward using defamation litigation to counter election lies—and what the case has and hasn’t achieved along those lines speaks to both the promise and the limitations of this strategy,” writes Quinta Jurecic.

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