democracy

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• 1/12/20
  

  Why The West Is Losing The Fight For Democracy

  by Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes

  We once had trouble imagining a future that is not essentially democratic and capitalist. That is not the way we think today. Most of us now have trouble imagining a future, even in the West, that remains securely democratic and liberal.

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• 1/12/20
  

  Trump Checks all of the Impeachment Boxes: Will it Matter?

  by Donald J. Fraser

  Unlike other presidents, Trump’s actions meet each of the requirements that the Framer’s laid out to impeach a president. Ironically, just as impeachment is needed most, the partisan tenor of the times may make it impossible to accomplish.

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• 1/12/20
  

  Can America Recapture Its Signature Exuberance?

  by Tracy Dahlby

  Walt Whitman understood transcendence of national mood is an uphill climb. Periods of division and strife sort new realities into a renovated sense of purpose. Yet periods of upheaval must necessarily lead to a refitting, not obliteration, of our common story or democracy is toast.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/5/20
  

  Why policymakers must act to preserve information freedom at home and abroad

  by Diana Lemberg

  A Cold War dichotomy pitting capitalism and democracy versus state control misreads history.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/30/19
  

  Why We Need Walt Whitman in 2020

  by Ed Simon

  With our democracy in crisis, the poet and prophet of the American ideal should be our guide.

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• 12/22/19
  

  China Needs to Change Strategy After Hong Kong Elections

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  With the depth of dissatisfaction in Hong Kong now made patently clear at the ballot box, China and Xi now face a difficult choice. Will it double down on repression or listen to the people and choose a new course that will require some compromise?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 11/14/19
  

  How America Ends

  by Yoni Appelbaum

  A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 09, 2019
  

  Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a power divide remains in Germany

  by Elena Souris

  Marginalized east-German perspectives could undermine democracy

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/1/19
  

  The Spirit That Brought Down the Berlin Wall Lives On

  by Robert Cohen

  Bloodless revolutions from Armenia to Lebanon are about ending the fatalism corrupt rule engenders.

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• 11/3/19
  

  A History of Why Trump Abandoned the Kurds

  by Ed Simon

  That the Kurds are associated with socialism, anti-fascism, and radical democracy isn’t incidental to Trump’s abandonment of them – it’s the reason why he has.

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• 11/3/19
  

  China and the NBA: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  China's relationship with NBA is one of the great successes in its cultural and commercial relations with the United States, and a powerful example of Sino-American ‘sports diplomacy’.

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• 11/3/19
  

  Lebanon’s Chance for Change

  by James Stocker

  Lebanon has a long history of internal crisis and protest. It is tempting to see the same potential for instability in the latest rounds of protests in Lebanon, but this time, there may be something truly different.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/23/19
  

  Why China should recognize that dissent can be patriotic

  by Charlotte Brooks

  History suggests that narrowly defining Chinese identity will backfire.

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• 10/13/19
  

  The United States is Not a Healthy Democracy: An Interview with Richard C. Lyons

  by Andrew Fletcher and Jonathan Montano

  "Power is aggregating away from the people’s representative assemblies of house and senate and into the executive branches myriad agencies and into the judicial branch."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/9/19
  

  Impeachment is the latest chapter in the battle between democracy and white supremacy

  by Carol Anderson

  The connections aren’t as obvious, but America’s front lines remain the same as they’ve always been.

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• SOURCE: Australian Outlook
  10/4/19
  

  Israel’s Fractured Democracy And Its Repercussions

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  A look at Israeli history and its latest headlines. 

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Long History of Activism Preceding The Hong Kong Democracy Protests

  by Susan Blumberg-Kason

  For the last 100 years, Hong Kong has seen mass protests. They'll only stop when people feel they have a voice in government. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/18/19
  

  What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy: The NY Times Reviews Eric Foner's Latest Book

  by Lincoln Caplan

  “The Second Founding” reflects Foner’s rigorously researched, now mainstream view that Reconstruction was “a massive experiment in interracial democracy."

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• 9/15/19
  

  Autocrats do not need a majority to destroy democracy. A divided opposition helps them.

  by Claudia Koonz

  Trump is not a despot. But neither were Mussolini and Hitler early on.

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• 9/8/19
  

  1933 May Be Closer than We Think

  by Frank Domurad

  Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.