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Donald Trump is Toronto’s Rob Ford on Steroids
It’s not just the US which has had its “Howard Beale moment.” By Marshall Auerback.
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How populist uprisings could bring down liberal democracy
Authoritarians are on the rise, and electorates are seduced by extremes. To fight back, mainstream politicians need to grasp the causes of popular discontent and rebuild democracy’s moral foundations. By Yascha Mounk.
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Obama calls out Facebook and Google and says it's hard to know how long democracy can survive the current political climate
Former President Barack Obama made some revealing comments about the state of political discourse in the US, suggesting last week that tech giants like Facebook and Google were compounding problems. His remarks were captured in an off-the-record speech at a sports conference at MIT. Audio from the presentation was first reported by Reason, a libertarian-leaning publication.
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No More Fairy Tales
Why the United States Needs a Whole New Operating System. By Thomas Linzey.
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Americans can spot election meddling because they’ve been doing it for years
If Vladimir Putin intervened to help Donald Trump, that’s an outrage. But then so is the long US record of foreign interference. By Owen Jones.
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Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno tries to bury the legacy of his predecessor
A referendum is designed to stop Rafael Correa from making a comeback.
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Against the Technocrats
Pundits fretting about a “tyranny of the majority” would do well to remember that democracy has always been a precondition of liberalism—not the other way around. By Sheri Berman.
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Democracy is Norm Erosion
“[W]hile that discourse of norm erosion won’t do much to limit Trump and the GOP, its real contribution will be to mark the outer limits of left politics, just at a moment when we’re seeing the rise of a left that seems willing to push those limits.” By Corey Robin.
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Facebook says it can't guarantee social media is good for democracy
Facebook Inc warned on Monday that it could offer no assurance that social media was on balance good for democracy, but the company said it was trying what it could to stop alleged meddling in elections by Russia or anyone else.
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Trump's Presidency Has Caused an 'Accelerated' Decline in Democracy
The first year of the Trump administration has seen increased democratic decline around the world, according to Freedom House. In its Freedom in the World 2018 report, the independent watchdog found that “democracy faced its most serious crisis in decades in 2017,” citing the United States’ withdrawal from its historic role as a “champion and an exemplar of democracy” as one of the causes.
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How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific American Fantasyland
Will she be rewarded for it with the presidency? Forty-eight hours ago, after watching Oprah Winfrey give a terrific, rousing feminist speech on an awards show, millions of Americans instantly, giddily decided that the ideal 2020 Democratic nominee had appeared. An extremely rich and famous and exciting star and impresario—but one who seems intelligent and wise and kind, the non–Bizarro World version of the sitting president.
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Who Is Congress Really Serving?
The Republican tax bill is a travesty. But there‘s still plenty we can do to improve the daily lives of millions of Americans. By Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
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Europe’s Era of Harmony Is Over
The European Union is engaged in a two-front fight for its own survival. By George Friedman.
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Obama: Protect democracy or risk taking path of Nazi Germany
CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama says Americans must be vigilant in their defense of democracy or risk following the path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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How Corporate Power Killed Democracy
The rise of Corporate Power was the fall of democracy. Over the long haul, US politics has revolved around a deep tension between democracy and an unrelenting drive for plunder, power and empire. Granted that our democracy has been seriously flawed and only rarely revolutionary, yet the democratic movements are the source of every good thing America has ever stood for. By Richard Moser.
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Big Money Rules
Two recent books—Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America and Gordon Lafer’s The One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time—seek to explain several puzzling aspects of American politics today. Why do people of modest means who depend on government-funded health care and Social Security or other supplements to their income continue to vote for candidates who promise to privatize or get rid of those very programs? Why do people who are poor vote for politicians who promise to cut corporate taxes? By Diane Ravitch.
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Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will
How the attention economy is subverting our decision-making and our democracy. By Brian Gallagher, with James Williams. (Sept. 21, 2017)
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Meet the Computer Scientist Championing Paper Ballots
Barbara Simons believes there is only one safe voting technology. By Jill Leovy.
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Pirates, Democracy, and the Digital Revolution
Roslyn Fuller considers the Pirate Party's recent success in Iceland and whether it could signal a new path in American politics.
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How Libertarian Democracy Skepticism Infected the American Right
The true story of the libertarian-leaning right’s distaste for democracy is simple on the surface, but complicated in the depths. By Will Wilkinson.
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