Unions give individuals an opportunity to participate in democratic decision-making, says Stuart Applebaum (above), President of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) and a board member of the… Read more »
In the latest issue of The Atlantic, George Packer, Anne Applebaum, and Franklin Foer tell the story of life on the front lines of democracy as Ukrainians (and their neighbors)… Read more »
Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was widely despised at home as the… Read more »
Some 98% of Ukrainians believe their country will definitely or likely win the war against Russia, according to the latest public opinion survey conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI). East Ukraine… Read more »
Russian strategy toward Ukraine is designed to demoralize and demotivate, notes Anne Applebaum. But it encounters a potent countervailing force in the form of activists and volonteri in groups like… Read more »
The war in Ukraine “is an inflection point,” said Jonas Parello-Plesner, executive director at the Alliance of Democracies. “It is not just Ukraine’s fight but a fight for liberal democracy,”… Read more »
“Ukraine has always aspired to be free”, Voltaire wrote back in the eighteenth-century. He knew that most of his French readers could barely find this “unknown land” on a map,… Read more »
The Ukrainian people’s resistance to Russia’s invasion has stirred the unity of the democratic world and showed “that freedom must be fought for,” Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the World Economic… Read more »
The key to understanding why Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine does not necessarily lie in its foreign policy, but rather in its domestic politics, according to Aleksandar Matovksi, assistant professor in the Department… Read more »
Although Hannah Arendt’s 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism” is primarily about Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, but her descriptions often capture aspects of our present moment more clearly than… Read more »