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Thinking About Voting? Read This First
Exposing the cult ritual of voting in America. By Dan Sanchez. (Oct. 11, 2016)
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Our Friendly Visitors
A new book examines foreign observations of American democracy. By Daniel J. Mahoney.
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Ancient Greeks would not recognise our ‘democracy’ – they’d see an ‘oligarchy’
What would Aristotle have thought of modern liberal democracy? It’s complicated. By Paul Cartledge. (June 3, 2016)
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How the education gap is tearing politics apart
In the year of Trump and Brexit, education has become the greatest divide of all – splitting voters into two increasingly hostile camps. But this is not a clash between the ignorant and the enlightened. By David Runciman. (Oct. 5, 2016)
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Venezuela congress presses for Maduro trial in rowdy session
Venezuela's opposition-led National Assembly in a rowdy session on Sunday vowed to put Nicolas Maduro on trial for violating democracy, days after authorities nixed a recall referendum against the unpopular leftist president. By Alexandra Ulmer and Deisy Buitrago.
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October 2016: The Month Political Journalism Died
The debates used to be the best opportunity to shed light on key issues. But it doesn’t work that way anymore. By Peter Dykstra.
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[Maryland] Green Party candidate Margaret Flowers storms Van Hollen-Szeliga Senate debate stage
The Green Party candidate for Maryland's open Senate seat took the stage at a televised debate on Wednesday and demanded to be included as police escorted her out of the room. By John Fritze.
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For Those Who Don’t Want to Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils
This election season pits two of the least popular candidates in our history against each another. Many voters think Donald Trump has a big mouth and don’t like the things that come out of it, and they think Hillary Clinton has a smart mouth and don’t like her smug sense of privilege. Millions of Americans would like to vote for someone they actually like, but are afraid to do so for fear of helping to elect their least favorite candidate.
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The Case Against Democracy
Roughly a third of American voters think that the Marxist slogan “From each according to his ability to each according to his need” appears in the Constitution. About as many are incapable of naming even one of the three branches of the United States government. Fewer than a quarter know who their senators are, and only half are aware that their state has two of them.
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This Maine Initiative Could Shake Up the Two-Party System
Ranked-choice voting opens up elections to a broader, more diverse range of candidates and ideas. By Hendrik Hertzberg.
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Please Vote for Me
Born into an authoritarian state that professes to value the greater good over individual expression, many Chinese children have little familiarity with Western ideals of democracy. Nevertheless, they prove themselves quick studies in Please Vote For Me, which chronicles China’s first ever modern classroom election, held among third-graders in the city of Wuhan. After the students learn the basic tenets of democracy, a campaign for the position of class monitor swiftly descends into an all too familiar jumble of campaign promises, back-room deals and dirty tricks.
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Reinventing Democracy in America Starts by Voting, Then Building an Accountability Movement
We, the people, have more power than we think. To exercise our power, we must insist that our elected representatives serve us. If they don’t, we need to vote them out as quickly as possible.
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An Artist Is Building a Parthenon of Banned Books
More than 100,000 books will become a monument to intellectual freedom in Germany next year. By Erin Blakemore.
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Democracy
Leonard Cohen
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There Is a Crack in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In: Leonard Cohen on Democracy and Its Redemptions
A generous reminder that we must aim for “a revelation in the heart rather than a confrontation or a call-to-arms or a defense.” By Maria Popova.
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On the election of Donald J Trump
If the elites have been vanquished, they don't seem to have caught on just yet. By Laurie Penny.
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The Supermanagerial Reich
The managerial class and the crisis of democracy. By Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Raphaële Chappe.
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Insubstantial Champions
“Goodness knows, finding reasons to hate Trump was never going to be hard, but why was it so hard to pin a like on Clinton? Why so hard to speak passionately and specifically for Europe, as opposed to denigrating those who were against it? With Brexit and with the Trumpiad, for most people, the positivity around the alternatives seems to boil down to a single ‘nice to have.’” By James Meek.
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Feast of Fools
Lewis Lapham on how American democracy became all about the rule of money.
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President Trump and How America Got It So Wrong
Journalists and politicians blew off the warning signs of a Donald Trump presidency – now, we all must pay the price. By Matt Taibbi.
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