Liberal democracy has been under attack from Putin’s Russia for years – now is the time to act on it
Throughout the report's fifty pages, the Intelligence and Security Committee paints a picture of a rotten state from head to...
Throughout the report's fifty pages, the Intelligence and Security Committee paints a picture of a rotten state from head to...
Or consider an article from 2019, "False equivalence: Are liberals and conservatives in the United States equally biased? " through...
Liberal democracy is like a bizarre fruit that ripens slowly and spoils easily. The main reason is an inability to...
Liberal democracy enjoys weak support in much of central and eastern Europe, according to a poll conducted in 10 countries...
In the end, all that was left was sex. And its hinterland. It was November 1998 and after six years...
A new Trump appointee to the US foreign aid agency has a history of online postings denouncing liberal democracy and...
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The terms “liberalism” and “liberal democracy” are often confused. While liberalism is the predominant political ideology in the United States,...
âMany forms of government have been and will be tried in this world of sin and calamity. No one claims...
After the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the introduction of pluralist political systems in the latter part of...
Even if Western leaders manage to limit the immediate fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak, it will mean little without forward-looking...
Taipei, Taiwan - Wendy had just moved in with her new partner when the couple unexpectedly found themselves accused of...
Slovakia is expected to hold a key parliamentary vote that should see the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS), which...
The challenges facing Western liberal democracies today are serious enough to remind us of Europe's descent into tyranny in the...
It is vitally important, especially at a time when the Achilles' heel of liberal democracy everywhere seems to be gravely...
While the United States is spending its energy fighting against itself, the rest of the world is on the move...
On Tuesday, Extra Sessions Judge Kamini Lau of Delhi's Tis Hazari Court made a moving statement defending, among other things,...
review of Capitalism, Alone (Harvard University Press, 2019). The emergence of capitalism in the ex-communist countries of Eastern Europe, the...
Breadcrumb Links Full Comment This complex balance of majority rule balanced with minority rights, judicial oversight, rule of law and...
If the 2019 presidential and European elections were any indication of what to expect in the February 29 parliamentary elections,...
The rise of the right was made possible by a crisis in liberal democracy. Photo: Composite prospect Over the past...
Turning: During Brexit negotiations, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted that Northern Ireland could be treated as part of a...
Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the triumph of liberal democracy in his seminal 1992 classic, "The End of History and the Last...
In Mohammed Hanif's novel Red Birds, an American bomber pilot crashes his plane in the Arabian desert and finds himself...
Freedom. Rights. Equality. Democracy. Rule of law. Free enterprise. These are the principles of liberal democracy (the word “liberal” not...
India is no longer a liberal democracy. This claim does not seem so surprising in light of some recent events....
Every century has its own defining moment. For the 19th century it was the juxtaposition of imperialism and the industrial...
Andy Borowitz, the New Yorker sketch comedy writer, captured the essence of this week's British parliamentary drama better than most....
Democracy in the world todayWhat does the state of democracy look like today in the world?Mica Soellner, Post CrescentDouglas Zoerb...
Much has been said lately about the impending demise of democracy. The continued rise of China, the emergence of dominant...
I met a couple of civilized-looking tourists one evening this week. Middle-aged European Jews, they had high-level relationships but not...
Can the norms and institutions of liberal democracy still effectively arbitrate the issues that animate the debates in Western democracies?The...
The re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been described by some of his critics as a blow to...
Around the world, alarm bells are ringing for democracy. Everywhere we find strongmen in command, enraged citizens and a desperate...
Living a private life is simply insufficient. We badly need a commitment in public life Living a private life is...
As the world watches with awe and awe the greatest democracy on the planet go to the polls, why should...
By Rajiv Shah Even as India heads to the polls, a recent European Union-assisted Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) report, claiming...
In March 2009, Foreign Affairs The magazine featured the article “How Development Leads to Democracy” by Ronald Inglehart and Christian...
This week has been deeply demoralizing for American media and democratic culture - a week with implications that may well...
The grave of Spanish General Francisco Franco is pictured on July 03, 2018 in San Lorenzo del Escorial, near Madrid,...
Facebook has 2.27 billion users, almost a billion more than in China. Perhaps that is why the company has always...
For anyone curious about the future of democracy, two developments from Brazil and Germany pose a certain mystery.Jair Bolsonaro's election...
Abstract Democracy in America suffers from a pattern of institutional decline that has lasted for decades. The candidacy and election...
"Nothing excessive". This motto, also known as "the golden mean", was displayed in the ancient sanctuary of Delphi. Such restraint...
In recent weeks, media around the world have celebrated the tenth anniversary of a landmark event in the global financial...
Ten years ago, on September 15, 2008, the dream of the global economy collapsed with the collapse of Lehman Brothers,...
Soros said he could not travel to Hungary under the current circumstances: "It would be toxic," he said. He told...
Now several of these conflicts are boiling at the same time.Take immigration. The security and wealth of liberal democratic societies...
IIt was 25 years ago that Fareed Zakaria warned of a new and growing threat: the rise of âilliberal democracyâ...
LLast summer, I gave a talk at a workshop on "Counterattack: Liberal Democrat Responses to the Populist ChallengeAt the Central...
OIn recent years I have often been reminded of David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005. Wallace...
March 15, 2018Listen to this storyYour browser does not support the item .Enjoy more audio and podcasts on ios Where...
Dani Rodrik The crisis of liberal democracy is today severely criticized. Donald Trump's presidency, the Brexit vote in the UK...
The crisis of liberal democracy is sharply decried today. Donald Trump's presidency, the Brexit vote in the UK and the...
Illiberal democracy - or populism - is not the only political threat facing Western countries. Liberal democracy is also undermined...
The Kyiv Arch Friendship, temporarily renamed the Diversity Ark in honor of the 2017 EuroVision Song Contest. (C) NurPhoto /...
LONDON - Emmanuel Macron's overwhelming victory over right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen in the last round of the French presidential...
Donald Trump's January 20 the inaugural address was ideology at its purest, its simple message resting on a series of...
(en.fotolia.com/rootstocks) Ryszard Lugutko isn't well known in English-speaking circles, but he's a big name in Poland. In the 1980s he...
When viewed in the long term context, Myanmar is good news. It has the potential to be a democratic and...
European Union officials have not hesitated to voice their condemnation of the permanent ban imposed by US President Donald Trump...
Communities are wiped out and killed for their color, gender, religion or ethnicity. It is a scourge on humanity and...
For Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark writes about political theory and Chantal Mouffe's âdemosâ and Mouffe's growing relevance in light of...
In August 2012, some 200 right-wing extremists gathered on the Rütli meadow, considered the birthplace of Switzerland. The far right...
Saturday's Slovak elections will, in their own way, shape the future of Europe. As the continent grapples with multiple crises,...
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NYAlexis de Tocqueville, a liberal...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and the extremist Islamic State group are sworn enemies who may seem to have little in...
Author: Kee-seok Kim, National Kangwon UniversityThe international media have spent 2015 criticizing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's government and its...
Since the collapse of several authoritarian regimes in the 1980s and 1990s, notably the Soviet Union, conventional wisdom in political...
Although more than 60% of the countries of the world are electoral democracies, the majority of these systems do not...