The New York Times (NYT) appears to be fully embracing its role as the propaganda arm of the U.S. establishment, as evidenced by its latest opinion on the White House beautification project. In which ...

Experts at the Athens Democracy Forum this week will explore the challenges to democracy, from artificial intelligence and subversion to complacency and inequality. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...

After a decade and a half of brutal conflict, the Syrian Civil War ended with Bashar al-Assad’s ouster at the hands of a rebel faction. What began in 2011 as peaceful protests during the Arab Spring ...

Sept. 29 (UPI) --A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist living in self-exile was barred from entry to Singapore after arriving on Saturday despite the country having issued him a visa. Nathan Law came to ...

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The opening sentence of George Packer’s sobering new essay in The Atlantic: “We are living in an authoritarian state.” After detailing “the features of the modern authoritarian state,” he writes: ...

In a post yesterday, Ned Foley took issue with the essay from Randy Barnett posted yesterday at NYU’s Democracy Project. Here’s an excerpt from Randy’s piece, so readers can understand the context of ...

A bitterly divided democratic camp, a constitutional setup with few guardrails and a surging extreme right spell trouble ahead for Britain’s political institutions. Ad Policy Anti-migrant ...

A common refrain on social media these days is to tell those fretting over democracy in retreat that “we’ve been here before.” It’s usually intended as a bit of tough love to counter rampant fears ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...

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