Tag Archives: democracy

“If they succeed in [extraditing Assange], this will be yet another nail in the coffin of democracy here in our country and around the world,” Gabbard warned in a video posted to social media on Thursday.  The Democratic representative slammed what she referred to as the “increasingly authoritarian Biden-Garland administration,” …

In a statement issued on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that “the threat to American democracy does not come from authoritarian regimes, as it is sometimes fashionable to say, but the distrust its own citizens have.” There is an increasingly common perception, she said, “that everything said by …

Speaking to the Polish parliament on Thursday, Mateusz Morawiecki proclaimed that “we are at a crucial moment, you could say at a crossroads in the EU’s history.” Democracy is being tested – how far will European nations retreat before this usurpation by some EU institutions. Morawiecki’s accusations come as he …

Raz made her comments during an appearance on ‘Axios on HBO’ on Sunday. She added that not only does she believe many in her country do not trust the US government and Biden’s administration, but she doesn’t, either.  “I trust and believe the [American] people. I mean, I’ve lost some …

In the ‘60 Minutes’ interview with CBS on Sunday, Frances Haugen, 37, came forward as the whistleblower behind a recent WSJ investigation and a Senate hearing. But while her Tuesday subcommittee appearance, titled ‘Protecting Kids Online’, will be focused on Instagram’s effect on the mental health of teens, in her interview …

In footage released by The Undercurrent – which has essentially framed and promoted themselves as a left-wing Project Veritas – a man identified as Gosar is talking to multiple people and saying there is “no way” Donald Trump lost the last election and saying the election being fraudulent has already …

It would be hard to miss the very heated debate about trans rights today.  During the Olympics, for example, there was furore over whether Laurel Hubbard, a transgender weightlifter from New Zealand, should be allowed to participate in the women’s competition, having competed as a man until 2012.  Around the …

The 2008 banking crisis led citizens in Western democratic countries to massively lose faith in their political systems and their political leaders – especially those for whom the system was clearly not working. In the UK, they were named ‘the left behind’ in an effort to explain Brexit. And then …

That’s according to Alexey Arestovich, a senior advisor to Andrey Yermak, the chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Arestovich believes that the recent events in Afghanistan are the collapse of liberal democracy, a political system he says can “destroy people” – just like in totalitarian regimes. The failure …

Not only is lumping the two states together a mistake, so too is the act of contrasting the two ideologies. The language of political philosophy is, sadly, unsuited to the task of describing political realities. We bandy about words such as “liberalism,” “socialism,” and “fascism,” as if we know what they …