Tag: democracy

Republicans should heed Churchill’s warning about appeasing authoritarians: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, it will eat him last.”

Congressional paralysis, voter suppression, and widespread political polarization all suggest that American democracy is far from exemplary.

We are truly living out the end of the American Century in the world it created.

Social justice and freedom in all its forms, including media freedom, are at the core of the fight.

The time for procrastination is over. What shall it be, protect the filibuster or preserve our democracy?

America desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.

Today it’s democracy versus authoritarianism, voting rights versus white supremacy.

This external approach, based on military occupation, to promote democracy in occupied foreign countries was “doomed to fail.”

Our democracy is too precious to throw away for partisan gain.

If democracy is to be preserved, both parts of the anti-democracy coalition must be stopped.