According to pro-democracy institutions, authoritarianism was on the rise globally even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, PBS reports. But experts say the distraction of the crisis has allowed some leaders… Read more »
The unrest in Khabarovsk amounts to a “revolution of dignity” created not by civil society, but by Russia’s authorities, says a prominent analyst. The current protests have sparked recent small… Read more »
John Hume was a political giant whose vision created the Northern Ireland that exists today. But he was a politician, not a saint, and should be remembered as such,… Read more »
What will be COVID-19’s longer-term impact on democracy? Recent research points to the causal pathways that can lead to democratic breakdown — as a result of the global economic fallout from the pandemic,… Read more »
New RAND research describes four possible scenarios for China in 2050: 🇨🇳 triumphant China 🇨🇳 ascendant China 🇨🇳 stagnant China 🇨🇳 imploding Chinahttps://t.co/98Tb97F1Tb — RAND Corporation (@RANDCorporation) August 3,… Read more »
Disinformed to Death https://t.co/DFOqGBbXwm via @nybooks — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 3, 2020 For the better part of four years, those sounding the alarm about the dangers of fake news… Read more »
Some 60,000 people joined an opposition rally in Belarus, where presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said she was “tired of being afraid” and wanted to bring about peaceful change in the… Read more »
The #Castro regime has aged badly. Cuba’s rum was legendary, before the regime stole it to finance their repression. Now every bottle sold keeps Cuba’s dictatorship in power longer…. Read more »
My column this week: Peru is heading towards a dangerous new populism https://t.co/m3cMa5pb7z — Michael Reid (@michaelreid52) July 23, 2020 In her 2017 book, Democracy: Stories From the Long… Read more »
China has employed high-tech surveillance tools and thousands of law enforcement officers to lock down the restive Xinjiang province in a bid to halt the largest outbreak of Covid-19 since… Read more »