12+ hour, 21+ min ago   (635+ words) The Fresno City College Social Justice Center invited author and educator Melissa Dalton Bradford to discuss her new book “How to Save Democracy: Your Anti-Authoritarian Playbook” in the Old Administration Building on Sept. 9. During her talk, Bradford said she believes…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago   (872+ words) … Americans agree their democracy is in crisis – yet the solution is as simple as it is elusive. Despite being divided on most issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that their democracy is in a state of crisis or facing…...

5+ hour ago   (1631+ words) Morocco’s six decades of elections offer a larger warning about the difference between choosing governments and controlling power. But when voters can change governments without fundamentally changing the distribution of power, what exactly is the ballot capable of changing? Candidates…...

1+ day, 4+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 4+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (362+ words) Par Jaafar UZZALContinue reading on Medium » Essayiste, en philosophie, anthropologie sociale LA THÉOCRATIE INVISIBLE: Le Secret du Trésor public et l’Illusion de la Foi Démocratique Derrière les concepts de liberté, de laïcité et de république, l’être humain dissimule inconsciemment ses…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (313+ words) THE front-page story for many of the world’s news sources recently reported that Donald Trump had threatened to ‘bomb the shit’ out of US ally Oman if it got in the way of US efforts to broker a deal on…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1709+ words) Chinese philosopher Tongdong Bai recently argued in IAI News that democracy and liberalism are fundamentally at odds. Electoral majorities often support illiberal policies, and this, he thinks, will lead to the demise of Western “liberal democracies.” Today, Princeton political philosopher…...

3+ day, 7+ 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…...

3+ day, 3+ 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…...