Monday, August 18, 2025

Tag: democracy

UK’s anti-protest laws: A threat to democracy and a dangerous global...

How the UK’s anti-protest laws threaten democratic values and global credibility.

Surprise!

History’s actual course remains exceedingly difficult to decipher.

Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes

The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.

Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to...

The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.

Once upon a time, a nation of laws

If only, as a nation, we could look beyond the tumultuous context of the current moment and imagine how to make our way to a safer, more sustainable future.

Take me to your leader

Arrogance and charisma are not the same as leadership.

Elon Musk’s quarter-billion dollar influence: How his spending helped elect Trump

Elon Musk spent over $250 million to support Trump’s 2024 election, raising questions about billionaire influence in democracy.

A reformist program on immigration (or what Harris might have said)

A radical program would embrace the freedom to migrate as universal and therefore reorient the global location of investment to serve that freedom both domestically and internationally.

The worse the chaos that results, the sooner the eventual revulsion...

A too gullible population let itself be bamboozled.

The ultimate corporate corruption: Trump appoints Musk to oversee US regulations

Examining the implications of Musk’s appointment to lead Trump’s new department of Government Efficiency and what It means for American democracy.

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US-Russia talks: The choice between peace and Escalation 

As negotiations progress, U.S. officials must be honest about the U.S. role in provoking this crisis.

A presidential wrecking ball

Trump is spitting on the grave of Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark...

Voters in Montana will have the opportunity this fall to ban corporate political spending and dark money in federal, state and local...

DC sues Trump administration over attempted takeover of city police

District leaders warn of unprecedented assault on home rule as lawsuit seeks to block federal seizure of MPD.

Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police

Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.