Almost half the world’s inhabitants reside in international locations that can maintain nationwide elections this 12 months, the biggest such proportion in additional than a century. However the large image is sophisticated: “Over half of the 60 international locations holding nationwide elections this 12 months are experiencing a democratic decline, risking the integrity of the … Read more
The subtitle of Maxwell L. Stearns’ new e book, “Parliamentary America,” is essential: “The Least Radical Technique of Radically Repairing Our Damaged Democracy.” Maybe the worst single side of America’s damaged democracy is the truth that it appears nearly not possible to repair, since our system rests on a structure written 230-odd years in the … Read more
The Supreme Court docket is a supreme risk to American democracy. That was Abraham Lincoln’s view in gentle of the Dred Scott determination, expressed in his First Inaugural Handle. And it was vividly illustrated after Lincoln’s assassination, when the Civil Warfare amendments and civil rights laws handed by Congress had been successfully nullified by the … Read more
The 2024 election is ready to be the longest basic election match-up in fashionable American historical past. That is true each by way of the variety of days and likewise the final feeling of exhaustion and anxiousness (or pleasure) about the specter of Donald Trump’s return to the White Home, boredom with a rematch between … Read more