22+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1674+ words) Por Jesús Del Toro Jesús Del Toro’s “40 Keys to Democracy in the United States” is a special editorial series created to inform and educate Latino communities about the U.S. democratic system and to guide and empower them in exercising…...

22+ hour, 31+ min ago   (391+ words) Arte: La Raza con herramientas de IA. Crédito: Impremedia Por Jesús Del Toro The United States is built on the idea of democracy, and the struggles to establish, preserve, and expand the validity of democratic ideals are among the most…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (561+ words) The American political theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, Robert A. Dahl (1917−2014), left in his immense scientific writing opus considerable remarks on democracy. Here, I would like to summarise his theoretical approaches to democracy. 19th-century painting by…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (350+ words) “Shouldn’t the community have some say in this before it’s just decided for us?” I saw that question in a comment this week and have been thinking about it ever since. Because yes. Of course, the community should have a…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (116+ words) Do you remember that line? It was spoken by The Chimp (he will always be The Chimp) 25 years ago, in the aftermath of what we were assured was a dastardly sneak attack by “Islamic terrorists” on the World Trade Center…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (754+ words) It can be difficult to grasp authoritarianism because it rarely arrives all at once. Instead, it often emerges through a series of actions that may seem disconnected on the surface: attacks on scientists who tell inconvenient truths, efforts to restrict…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (85+ words) AS/COA Why a Shield for Democracy in the Americas is Under Strain The OAS Democratic Charter remains a worthy bulwark against authoritarianism in the hemisphere. For the first time in a generation, democracy is considered the best form of…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (335+ words) 3.5% is a data point that has become popular among people who want to build a movement to defeat authoritarianism and reconstruct democracy in the United States. It comes from great research by Erica Chenowith at Harvard University on nonviolent movements…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (529+ words) The greatest chronicler of the British state, Lord Hennessy, warns of the need to bolster constitutional defences against a future authoritarian government It is early 2011, a few months after I had joined the crossbenches in the House of Lords. The…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (675+ words) A farmer can’t make his plants grow, but he can create the conditions that lead to their flourishing. A society can’t make its citizens virtuous, but it can nurture the institutions that lead to virtuous citizens. Great thinkers in Western…...