There is a lot of understandable worry about our democracy, but it’s more resilient than you think. Here’s why.
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Why I’m Not Optimistic About Democracy in Syria
Early next month, the country is scheduled to hold its first parliamentary elections since the fall of Assad. But the conditions that have long stifled democracy in the Arab world remain firmly in place.
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Surrendering to MAGA Isn’t Just a Broadcast Media Problem
Capitulation is everywhere.
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Stop Asking How Democrats Will Fight Trump. Start Asking Republicans
The president is supplanting long-standing Republican principles of limited government, free markets, low taxes, and federalism with his trademark incompetent authoritarianism.
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Extortionist-in-Chief
The mob-style shakedowns of colleges, networks, law firms, and businesses are the through line of the Trump era.
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Forcing Culture War Bigotry on Private Enterprise
Trump’s compelling businesses, from football teams to AI companies, to go MAGA.
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How the Right’s Illiberal Past Became Present
A spate of new books reexamines the conservative movement’s history of worshipping authoritarians.
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One Hundred Years of Dictator Worship
For the past century, the American right has fawned over foreign autocrats, from Kaiser Wilhelm to Vladimir Putin.
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America Needs a True Liberal Media
Our crisis of democracy is exacerbated by conservative misinformation. Time for a balanced media diet.
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The Assault on Democracy Won’t Stop with Trump
A massive conservative effort to politicize federal agencies and law enforcement bodes ill no matter who wins the Republican presidential nomination or when the GOP retakes power, which they eventually will.
