The Middle East’s return to repression provides a tragic epitaph to the post-9/11 era, notes Brookings’ analyst Shadi Hamid. Over the past two decades, Arabs have repeatedly demonstrated that their… Read more »
For his forthcoming Summit for Democracy, President Biden should keep the tent large while emphasizing that the objective is not to create a new formal alliance of democracies, argues Kemal… Read more »
In the wake of the Afghanistan debacle, if democracies conclude military-backed liberal intervention in pursuit of democracy cannot work, will autocracies show the same self-restraint? The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour asks:… Read more »
India’s democratic malaise is by now well documented, notes James Crabtree, executive director of IISS-Asia and author of ‘The Billionaire Raj’. The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which… Read more »
The Covid-19 pandemic combined with economic crisis and deteriorating living conditions has resulted in widespread protests in Cuba against the regime and the lack of basic goods and services, specifically… Read more »
Participants will aim to make democracies more responsive & resilient, & to build a broader community of partners committed to global democratic renewal. https://t.co/QXS5IofYoS — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) August 11,… Read more »
Liberal democracies have not provided an adequate policy response to widespread and systematic state-sanctioned hate directed at many minorities, according to Irwin Cotler, Ahmed Shaheed and Brandon Silver. Rapid implementation… Read more »
Sergei Kovalev, a leading Russian dissident and human rights activist who fought for the victims of oppression in Soviet times and opposed Moscow’s war against Chechen separatists in the 1990s,… Read more »
Labor and democracy activists are mourning the passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. “The labor movement, the AFL-CIO and the nation lost a legend today,” said AFL-CIO Communications Director Tim… Read more »
Happy workers in sugar fields. The dashing Che Guevara. Bearded heroes clutching AK-47s. And, of course, Fidel Castro. Love it or hate it, the Cuban revolution has been one of… Read more »