Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Surrender

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Many posts have discussed war powers and the US military "There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!... IRAN W...
Friday, June 12, 2026

International Perspectives on How Democracy Is Working

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Many.posts have dealt with international perspectives .  Jonathan Schulman and Richard Wike at Pew: Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69%) s...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Poll on America at 250

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  Many posts have discussed patriotism and American exceptionalism . GARY FIELDS, LINLEY SANDERS and NICHOLAS RICCARDI at AP: The survey...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Democratic Decline in 2025

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Previous   posts  have  discussed   authoritarian  moves by the  executive branch . Jonathan Schulman and Richard Wike at Pew : The health o...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Democratic Backsliding

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Previous   posts  have  discussed   authoritarian  moves by the  executive branch . V-Dem  Institute: Democratic backsliding is now happeni...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections."

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Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America In his opening speech to the ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Viewing With Alarm

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  J. Andrew Sinclair and Kenneth Miller report on the new Rose Institute poll: American voters view the upcoming election with alarm. Nearly...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The Founding and Its Enemies

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Many posts have discussed the Founding . Robert Kagan at WP: Before the American Revolution no government had ever been founded on libera...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Civic Virtue

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Many   posts  have  discussed   volunteering  and  civic virtue . Brooks, Arthur C. "America's Crisis of Civic Virtue." Journa...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Democracy Attitudes: Dissatisfaction and Hypocrisy

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Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup : A new low of 28% of U.S. adults are satisfied with the way democracy is working in the country. The current f...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Speaker Mike Johnson

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Mike Johnson (R-LA) has become speaker of the House. His inaugural speech mentioned religion and the Declaration . Newly elected House Spe...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

January 6: Seditious Conspiracy, Domestic Terrorism, Treason

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  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAUNITED STATES OF AMERICA v.ELMER STEWART RHODES III,KELLY MEGGS,KENNETH HARRELSON,...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Impact of Social Media: International Opinion

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Richard Wike and colleagues at Pew: As people across the globe have increasingly turned to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and other platforms t...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Authoritiarians

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Marc Fisher at WP: Though hardly a champion of democracy, Russian President Vladimir Putin late last month delivered an address that would...
Sunday, September 18, 2022

Threats to Democracy

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David Leonhardt at NYT identifies election denialism as one threat to American democracy . “There is the possibility, for the first time in ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Bipartisan Anti-Democratic Sentiment

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David Nather and Margaret Talev at Axios : About one in three Americans prefers strong unelected leaders to weak elected leaders and says ...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

Republic and Democracy

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 Ron Elving at NPR : Robert Draper of The New York Times published a piece on Republicans who say this in August. He cited a GOP candidate ...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

Despair About Democracy

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 Andrew Romano at Yahoo: A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that most Democrats (55%) and Republicans (53%) now believe it is “likely” that...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Reagan at Westminster

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  Forty years ago today, President Reagan spoke to the British Parliament: No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivatin...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Profiles in Courage

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From the JFK Library: For the first time ever, the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award will honor five individuals — President Volodymy...