When I lived in China, a decade ago, I often saw propaganda billboards covered in words that supposedly expressed the country’s values: Patriotism. Harmony. Equality. And … Democracy. Indeed, China ...
This article appears in the February 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Democrats have spent much—some might say all—of the last two presidential elections warning about the ...
Why do coups d’état happen? Is it that bad leadership pushes people to their boiling points, compelling them to take matters into their own hands? Or is it a lack of adequate preventative laws? Do ...
It’s a sign of our troubled times that when asked about the health of their democracies, millions of citizens curse politicians, complain about poor government performance, and express fears that ...
A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...
Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...
Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...
The Department of Education Was a Bad Idea Then — and It Still Is Trump’s Prompt and Utter Humiliation Supreme Court: Law Cited in Hunter Biden Case Violates the Second Amendment The Strange Plot to ...
Democratic form of government has over the years been a fascination to mankind since the Greeks evolved it in a rudimentary form in the city state of Athens in the sixth century. Democracy as defined ...
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