How to reclaim the internet for democracy
How are various groups working to ensure that the internet remains an open platform for democratic engagement? What are the biggest challenges they face? What can be done to support… Read more »
Why women’s political participation matters
Congo Despite participating enthusiastically in political and community life in the Democratic Republic of Congo, women hold few public decision-making positions. Many have withdrawn from seeking office or getting involved… Read more »
Playing the ‘long game’: a strategic approach to advancing democracy
During a recent congressional hearing, the heads of three non-profit democracy assistance groups revealed the benefits of a strategic approach – playing “the long game” – in advancing democracy in other countries,… Read more »
China: the emerging ideological struggle of the 21st Century
The new world order that China’s ruling Communist party is constructing with frightening rapidity and success is deceptively dangerous because economic and political subjugation of the rest of the world… Read more »
Crowdsourcing funds journalism where press freedom is weak
Wendy Funes was poring over judicial records when she discovered that the remains of human fetuses and newborns had been found in an indigenous area of her native Honduras. The… Read more »
‘Factory of Lies’: Russia’s disinformation strategy and tactics
Factory of Lies is the name of a new television documentary introducing a number of journalists who have uncovered the hidden processes of the disinformation campaigns coming from Russia, EU vs Disinfo reports…. Read more »
‘Profound reshaping of political map’ will challenge Mexico’s ‘bourgeois’ civil society
Angry and frustrated over corruption and violence, Mexico’s voters delivered a tidal wave presidential election victory to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [aka AMLO], giving him a broad mandate to… Read more »
‘Don’t abandon democratic values’ – U.S. foreign policy’s ‘moral compass’
The rule-based international order is under unprecedented strain because of both internal stresses on leading democracies and rising pressure from such challengers as Russia and China, the order — but… Read more »
Cuba’s authoritarian state – image vs. reality
A Cuban exile group is forwarding complaints to federal authorities about alleged human-rights violators in Cuba who now live in the United States, with the goal of deporting people… Read more »
‘Anger Management’: The Arab World’s Politics of Frustration
The Arab world is in the middle of a process of deep social and political change, according to analyst José Antonio Sabadell. The experience of successive attempted revolutions across the… Read more »