Things started with a brawl and have scarcely gotten better from there. Over the course of the past five months or so, there have been
Tag: Democracy
In Fighting the Far Right, Is Germany Undermining Its Democracy?
For Germany — a country that knows something about how extremists can hijack a government — the surging popularity of the far right has forced
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Germans Rally Against Far Right and for Democracy
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Germany on Holocaust Memorial Day on Saturday to demonstrate in support of democracy and against
Poland Begins to Look Beyond the Vote, to Unwinding an ‘Illiberal Democracy’
Shocked by exit polls on Sunday night indicating that opposition forces had won enough seats in Parliament to oust Poland’s nationalist governing party, Polish state
Athens Democracy Forum: Rethinking Security When So Many Threats Are Invisible
This article is from a special report on the Athens Democracy Forum, which gathered experts last week in the Greek capital to discuss global issues.
New York Times’s Publisher Warns of Risks to Press Freedom and Democracy
A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, warned on Tuesday that “when the free press erodes, democratic erosion almost always follows,” delivering a