#Democracy

Anders Åslund

anders_aslund

Why low oil prices are good:1. When oil prices were low 1981-2000, the world went through the third wave of democratization. Low oil prices breed democracy. 2. The 7 rich

Sunanda Vashisht

sunandavashisht

It is time to call out bluff on this nonsense that West/America is invested in India’s rise. Or to put it more palatably as DC think tankers do ‘America wants

☭🏴Small Town Communist 🚩🌱

GaLeftist

QAnon and other right wing conspiracy theories that claim everything is controlled by a secret group of people in the shadows arise directly from the contradictions inherent in our bourgeois

Martin Jacques

martjacques

1. Labour Party's approach to China has been silence. Like on many international Qs LP has little to say & hasn't given it any serious thought. Unlike the Tories: @David_Cameron/@George_Osbourne

Bella is a Beast

yobellaisabeast

Drivers are OVERWHELMINGLY in favor of #YesOnProp22. WE are the people who will be affected by this. If you vote #NoOnProp22, you don’t believe in democracy. Period. If you don’t

James 🦉 🇪🇺 #FBPE #Antifa #BLM

FreeQuayBuoy

They say remainers think leavers are stupid. But it wasn’t us who took you for fools, was it? We didn’t get you outraged about bananas and teabags and unelected bureaucrats,

Alison Mau

Alisonmau

There's a lot of Covid commentary around and rightly so. These are big issues. But it also means a tonne of other stuff might be sliding by us. So this

Danny Katch

dannylucia4

Last night was a national humiliation. By that I don’t mean a humiliation for the nation, which has been a clown show since Michelle Obama’s best friend stole the 2000

Aren R. LeBrun

proustmalone

A lot of talk on here about the “end of democracy” in America. I’m confused as to when the beginning of it was. The framers abhorred democracy and saw it

Doctora Malka Older

m_older

For @ForeignPolicy, I wrote about how we need to refocus on a principle that supposedly all US citizens should share: democracy.https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/25/building-a-shared-worldview-among-democrats-and-republicans-could-be-more-d

Robert Griffin

rp_griffin

Friendly reminder: That "white evangelical share of the national vote" is coming from the Exit Polls and is not *IN ANY WAY* credible. 1/Nhttps://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1149816715955458048 This number doesn't pass any

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

the interesting thing to me about this conspiracy is how much it depends on seeing monochrome photography as the exception to the capturing of images and not, until relatively recently,

Adnan Rasool

adnanrasool

It is crucial to unpack this statement to understand exactly what is wrong with #PakistanGentleman in question presided over an All Parties Conference a few days ago. His stance was

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

Lee's statement that "we are not a democracy" has a long genealogy on the American right, and is not that different from what others have said recently. /1https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008 Remember that

Old Salty Chief, OSC (SW) USN Ret

old_osc

[THREAD]Today is the second time in my life that I have voted a straight ticket. In my life I have always desired and voted for divided government. I like debate

David Hundeyin

DavidHundeyin

If certain people had left Iran alone to be a democracy under Prime Minister Mossadegh, it would have become the most powerful country in the Gulf and a powerful modernising