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How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow

“The troubling truth is that democracy can be destroyed in multiple ways, in different tempos”

April 10, 2023 • by John Keane

Things are serious: the “great democratic revolution“ of modern times, as Tocqueville once called it, appears to be spluttering to a halt....

North America

The People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 19

April 5, 2023 • by Claire Potter

The Former Guy put out a call for his supporters to protest his indictment: this is who showed up...

The People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump

Democracy

Analyzing the right’s Second Amendment shell game after the tragic Covenant school shooting

April 3, 2023 • by Claire Potter

How do you square support for gun ownership, virtually without restriction, with this terrible, unjust tragedy?...

Democracy

A Fragile Hope for Democracy in Thailand

An election in May has put the Thai King, the government, and the constitution under pressure. But can the opposition win?

March 29, 2023 • by Tobias Lentz

The May election will be a pivotal moment for Thailand’s democratic future....

Democracy

The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End

On Jessica Pisano’s Staging Democracy and the function of political theater

March 28, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, James Miller and Jessica Pisano

Zelenskyy’s approach to political leadership has been focused on creating conditions that allow people to self-mobilize and self-govern....

<strong>The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End</strong>

Europe & Central Asia

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

March 20, 2023 • by Maria Stepanova

The war, begun by Russia, had deprived life of all its connective tissue: nothing happening outside Ukraine held any meaning or had any weight....

Europe & Central Asia

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

March 1, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert

What is happening now in the country is the reappearance and radicalization of a centuries-old resentment of the West, in the context of the war in Ukraine....

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

Europe & Central Asia

An ethnographer’s reflections on communication in wartime

February 22, 2023 • by Jessica Pisano

In this war, resistance to Russian aggression is equipped and organized and supported as much through volunteer networks as through the generous but slow-walked bankrolling from European countries whose promises and delays Ukrainian linguistic inventiveness has come to describe as “Macroning” and “Shultzing around.”...

Europe & Central Asia

There’s Nothing Natural about Turkey’s Earthquake Disaster

Erdoğan’s AKP failed to plan for a catastrophe—but did create a strategy to use this catastrophe to stay in power

February 16, 2023 • by Utku Balaban

The current crisis in Turkey is not a natural disaster but a political one. We knew that a massive earthquake would hit southeastern Turkey. For many years, several geologists have not only specified where the fault line would most likely break but also which individual settlements the ensuing earthquake would ...

There’s Nothing Natural about Turkey’s Earthquake Disaster

Latin America & Caribbean

The Foggy Future of Brazilian Democracy

The recent coup in Brazil challenged the country’s democracy even more than January 6 did in the United States

February 15, 2023 • by Theo Almeida

The consequences of January 8 for Brazilian politics may be much more severe and have not yet fully unfolded. ...

Europe & Central Asia

From Putin’s Chef to Kremlin’s Chief?

Why Yevgeny Prigozhin, a leader of the Wagner Group, can’t challenge Putin for power

February 14, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert

So long as Putin retains his legitimacy as a “strong leader,” it is extremely premature to talk about an impending coup or a threat from Prigozhin or anyone else....

<strong>From Putin’s Chef to Kremlin’s Chief?</strong>

Democracy

American Democracy in Crisis: Q & A on Tocqueville, Douglass, Dewey, and Arendt

Liberal institutions, abolition democracy, and civic virtue

February 1, 2023 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Juliet Hooker, William Milberg, James Miller and Deva Woodly

If we think about the way that liberalism anchors democracy, it largely relies on rights and institutional design. Just as a descriptive matter, it’s the case that the institutions that have been designed and the regime of rights that has been conceived, including the regime of human rights that has ...

Democracy

How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow

“The troubling truth is that democracy can be destroyed in multiple ways, in different tempos”

The People of New York vs. Donald J. Trump

Why Now? With Claire Potter, Episode 19

It’s Never the Gun, Is It?

Analyzing the right’s Second Amendment shell game after the tragic Covenant school shooting

A Fragile Hope for Democracy in Thailand

An election in May has put the Thai King, the government, and the constitution under pressure. But can the opposition win?

The Only Way War in Ukraine Can End

On Jessica Pisano’s Staging Democracy and the function of political theater

The Russian Question

Reflections on the collective ‘Russian’ guilt and responsibility

Canceling the West, Putin Aims to “Make Russia Great Again”

The fact that anti-Western rhetoric is increasingly popular in Russia should be a wake-up call for Europe and the U.S.

Notes on Kharkiv

An ethnographer’s reflections on communication in wartime

There’s Nothing Natural about Turkey’s Earthquake Disaster

Erdoğan’s AKP failed to plan for a catastrophe—but did create a strategy to use this catastrophe to stay in power

The Foggy Future of Brazilian Democracy

The recent coup in Brazil challenged the country’s democracy even more than January 6 did in the United States

From Putin’s Chef to Kremlin’s Chief?

Why Yevgeny Prigozhin, a leader of the Wagner Group, can’t challenge Putin for power

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