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To protect US democracy from tyrants, we must protect the truly free press | Robert Reich
No billionaire or corporation controls us: the Guardian answers only to the public. Please help us raise the $4m we need to hold power to account in 2025 . Reliable and independent sources of ...World - The Guardian - 13 hours ago -
Journalism is the lifeblood of British democracy. My government will protect it | Keir Starmer
Whether it is online intimidation, journalists imprisoned abroad or the cynical use of Slapp lawsuits, we will fight any threats to those who hold the powerful to account. Journalism is the ...World - The Guardian - October 28 -
Harris leads on protecting democracy; Trump ahead on keeping US safe: Gallup
Vice President Harris and former President Trump are locked in a tight race with Election Day less than a week away — but voters are split on which candidate is best for democracy and national ...Politics - The Hill - November 1 -
Senator-elect Schiff vows to protect democracy without naming Trump
“Tonight is going to be a hard, long night,” he said.Politics - Politico - November 6 -
Springsteen calls Trump an ‘American tyrant’ at Harris’s star-studded rally
Samuel L Jackson, Spike Lee and Tyler Perry join singer in supporting VP at Georgia event packed with 20,000 people. Bruce Springsteen urged voters to back Kamala Harris in the presidential ...World - The Guardian - October 25 -
The change agent v the tyrant: Harris’s big speech focuses on Trump
The Democratic nominee mentioned Trump by name 24 times at the Washington DC event, before pivoting to hope. Whither the politics of joy? Kamala Harris ’s solid if unspectacular closing argument ...World - The Guardian - October 30 -
In Closing, Harris Casts Herself as the Unifier and Trump as a ‘Petty Tyrant’
In a plain-spoken but forceful speech at the Ellipse in Washington, Kamala Harris presented herself as a protector of the public good and used the arc of history to attack her Republican rival.Top stories - The New York Times - October 30 -
Morning Report — Harris, Trump frame the choice: ‘Petty tyrant’ or ‘a phony’
In today’s issue: Vice President Harris and former President Trump will both campaign today in North Carolina and Wisconsin, agreeing on the stakes and the states with voting power to write their ...Politics - The Hill - October 30 -
The Game Theory of Democracy
Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States.World - The New York Times - October 29 -
Trump’s Hostility to Democracy
We explore the ways that Trump could undermine democratic traditions.Top stories - The New York Times - October 30 -
Goodbye to Democracy? Not Quite Yet.
In a year filled with elections, the state of democracy is thriving by many measures. But there are dark clouds on the horizon.Top stories - The New York Times - November 8 -
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Yes, democracy was on the ballot — and it won!
Democrats are angered by the American public's decision to vote for Republicans, despite their claims that Trump and Republicans are a threat to democracy, and are instead focusing on the threat of ...Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago -
Liz Cheney calls Trump would-be tyrant as he imagines ‘guns trained on her face’
Ex-congresswoman warns dictators threaten opponents with death after Trump calls her a ‘radical war hawk’. US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has called former congresswoman Liz ...World - The Guardian - November 1 -
Protecting Nature, With the U.S. on the Sidelines
As the world gathers this week for U.N. biodiversity negotiations, the U.S. hasn’t ratified a decades-old treaty to protect nature.Top stories - The New York Times - October 31 -
Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math
A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.World - The New York Times - October 25 -
Europe is trapped between technocracy and democracy
As the EU fills its top jobs, the risk is that von der Leyen will end up as a leader without followers in national capitalsWorld - Financial Times - November 4 -
Goodbye, democracy — it’s Trump’s America now
In 2016, we could all pretend that Trump was an aberration. Not this time. People knew exactly what they were voting for.Politics - The Hill - November 8 -
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Inside the mission to protect endangered culture
Unesco’s ‘intangible cultural heritage’ list brings local traditions to the world’s attention. How well does it protect them?Business - Financial Times - October 26 -
Democrats warn of threat to democracy in closing pitch to voters
Democrats are zeroing in on the future of democracy and former President Trump’s response to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as part of their closing pitch to voters two weeks out from Election ...Politics - The Hill - October 23 -
Harris says ‘unhinged’ Trump is a threat to US democracy
Vice-president revives campaign message used by Joe Biden that claims her opponent is a danger to the countryBusiness - Financial Times - October 24 -
Navalny widow to Americans: Don't take democracy for granted
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, encouraged Americans not to take democracy for granted, in an interview on ABC’s “The View” that aired Thursday. "I ...Politics - The Hill - October 24 -
Voters Are Deeply Skeptical About the Health of American Democracy
Nearly half say it does not do a good job representing the people, and three-quarters say it is under threat, according to a Times/Siena poll.Top stories - The New York Times - October 27 -
The Republican crackup: A clash between liberty and democracy
The real reason that we in the Republican base don’t care about Trump’s norm-breaking is because we don’t care about those norms.Politics - The Hill - October 27 -
Election workers on the front line of American democracy
Harassment, threats & intimidation of local officials is increasing ahead of the electionTop stories - BBC News - November 4 -
Cheney: 'Guardrails of democracy' must keep Trump in check
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Wednesday that citizens, courts, media and elected officials would now serve as the “guardrails of democracy” after former President Trump resoundingly won a ...Politics - The Hill - November 6 -
Why Harris’s Push for Democracy Didn’t Land With Voters
In more than 200 interviews, voters worried not about an endangered country, but about paying rent.Top stories - The New York Times - November 6 -
The important role of concession speeches to U.S. democracy
A concession speech delivered by the losing candidate is a patriotic tradition as old as the U.S. itself, and as Vice President Kamala Harris showed Wednesday, it often represents the most ...Top stories - CBS News - November 6 -
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How Trump Divides Chinese Who Aspire for Democracy
A new HBO documentary about opposition to autocrats says a lot about the complex politics the president-elect inspires for people fleeing countries.Business - The New York Times - November 11 -
The Democratic Party has no credibility on building democracy
Let’s hope the Democratic Party takes a good long look at their lack of credibility on democracy as they process the results of this election and plot a path forward.Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago -
Russia continues to subvert democracy in Moldova and Georgia
Vladimir Putin aims to keep Moldova and Georgia under his thumb — and the electoral results from both countries suggest his strategy is working.Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago -
Hong Kong jails 45 pro-democracy campaigners for subversion
Benny Tai and Joshua Wong were among dozens sentenced in a controversial national security trial.Top stories - BBC News - 12 hours ago -
A Major Push to Protect Nature Is Happening Now
Delegates from around the world are meeting in Colombia in what is expected to be the biggest U.N. biodiversity conference in history.World - The New York Times - October 21
