America on the Edge of an Institutional Abyss
The Democrats succeeded only in exceeding a very low bar. The challenge for them is to figure out how to raise the bar and then succeed again.
The Democrats succeeded only in exceeding a very low bar. The challenge for them is to figure out how to raise the bar and then succeed again.
In a world afflicted by dramatic ills that include a climate crisis, a pandemic that refuses to go away and a worrying standoff between two nuclear superpowers in Ukraine, Indonesia stands out as a nation that made the transition from dictatorship to democracy just over two decades ago. Technology...
Polarization has become a way of life in the US, undermining the essential requirement of democracy: constructive dialogue. It has bred a culture that rewards individuals who cultivate the destructive art of high conflict.
Salvatore Babones argues that Western think tanks rank Indian democracy poorly because of cultural bias and subjective opinion, not objective truth.
Totalitarianism is on the rise again and democracies are distracted. The gathering of all nations together to staunch the advance of aggressive totalitarianism is necessary and urgent.
Democracy has softened the West, which is struggling to cope with the challenge from the East, where autocratic Russia and China believe in using brute force and deft diplomacy to challenge the rules-based order.
Emotions are running high after the US Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade. Both Republicans and Democrats are arguing about whether the constitution gives women the right to abort their fetuses. Both forget that the Preamble gives the people the right to choose what they want.
Smedley Butler called war a racket. It has become an addiction and the dealers are profiting handsomely.
A newly united left in France proposes an ambitious program, bridging social justice, ecology and European reform that could challenge Europe’s neoliberal establishment.
The debate about whether elections are fair or rigged is secondary when the institutions that define democracy fail.
Radical Islamists in Afghanistan and Pakistan inspired by the Taliban are an existential threat to India, which must act with immediacy to contain this threat.
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” Macbeth, William Shakespeare.
France demonstrates that, with pressure on democracies to evolve a political order responsive to the people, today’s institutions are designed to orchestrate chaos.
The future of democracy in the world now depends on the courage and endurance of Ukrainian defenders and on the economic and financial power of the West.
America is not now, nor has it ever been, a democracy, says Larry Beck.
