#Democracy

In case the penny hasn't dropped yet about the true nature of British power and political system, some thoughts based on recent case studies. My contention is that UK democracy
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1. Given that compromising democracy was about the only thing he was good at, it's no surprise that Obama is pushing for voting by mail. The gall of this guy
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I'm watching the Pete Sousa special and the Obama "... change has come to America ..." moment just played.Yes. It did.And we have spent the last four years watching America's
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Excited to share my new piece in the latest @ForeignAffairs, which argues that the global information contest is a key domain in Great Power competition.China's info manipulation on COVID-19 is
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#WhyImNotVotingForJoe I am a millennial, Joe said he has no empathy for my generation. Joe’s Bankruptcy greatly harmed my generation with student loan we will not die with. I entered
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A “State of Emergency” declared by the President, holds for only 21 days, unless Parliament extends it. Yet a “State of Disaster”, which makes equally draconian inroads on our fundamental
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Lord of the Flies is one of those novels that people remember wrong. People remember its central theme as "take away civilization, and we all turn into Hobbesian little monsters."But
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Nobody questions why Saudi and the Gulf States turned their backs on the millions of suffering Syrian refugees, preferring to instead insult and denigrate the same western countries that opened
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In "The Effect of White Social Prejudice on Support for American Democracy," a pair of political scientists used data from the World Values Survey to analyze the rise of authoritarian,
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It's beyond an iota of doubt that Modi Administration has failed the nation. In a manner most ghastly and cruel. As a people living in a democracy - what are
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2008 global financial meltdownMultiple global Swine Flu outbreaksGlobal oil prices crisisAmongst the many global crisis during MMS tenure & we Indians never felt 1% of it when the world was
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1/ There's a large crowd sentiment with the feds of 'we don't want you here. You aren't welcome here, these aren't your streets'So rather than a protest it's almost a
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State Govt had earlier decided to amend the Police Act to address the problem of cyber bullying & hate speech over social & digital spaces. But many have expressed concerns
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Look. Here’s how you do this:“The Republican Party is rushing to establish a Supreme Court whose base views will be wildly out of alignment with the views of American voters
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All reports and rankings are not perfect, but broadly this is how it works:Negative = Flawed methodology, Anti-India conspiracy Positive = Dynamic leadership Thread 1/n **World Press Freedom Index
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A looooooong thread on soviet democracy, the origin of the soviet system, village meetings, city soviets, methods of election, rayons and oblasts, and the systems of democratic organization of the
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