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The "democracy sausage," a grilled sausage in bread, symbolises Australian election culture, served at polling places nationwide and abroad. It reflects humility in politics and has become part of ...
With President Donald Trump now having been in office for more than 100 days, concern is growing that he is accumulating so much executive authority that American democracy is in peril.
It’s time to rise up and take arms and fight for the precious foundations and soil of Democracy manifest. Helldivers, return to our planet and defend what is rightfully ours. The urban sprawl of ...
The first three months of the Trump administration were a mass-extinction level event for global democracy support and foreign aid. With astonishing speed, the administration decimated two ...
The Trump administration has already gutted USAID, the main vehicle for U.S. humanitarian and development assistance, and wants to shut down the bureaus that work on democracy, human rights ...
In those days, the National Endowment for Democracy and the State Department played vital roles supporting nascent democracies, from Eastern Europe to Latin America to Asia and Africa. We are now ...
In the United States, the great flooding wave of authoritarian populism manifests in the form of Trumpism, MAGA and the larger neofascist anti-democracy movement. Its origins include but are not ...
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin’s documentary “Steal This Story, Please!” about journalist and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman will open the third edition of DC/DOX on June 12. In the film ...
American children are taught that democracy is the best form of government. I remember teachers saying that popularly elected governments are the “natural” endpoint of all societies.
The authors are political scientists who study how democracies come to an end. How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be.