@DamonMacWilson head of @NEDemocracy and members of @Artlords paint a wall mural in Tirana, Albania, Thursday Dec. 16, 2021. https://t.co/9jzCEmZw6c via @reflectornews — Democracy Digest (@demdigest) December 17, 2021 A… Read more »
The Biden administration has announced a partnership with Australia, Denmark, Norway, Canada, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to curb authoritarian regimes’ access to potentially repressive technologies. The Export… Read more »
The list of invitees to this week’s Summit for Democracy reflects political considerations more than democratic values, resulting in “a tangle of contradictions and missed opportunities,” The Economist suggests. Attendees… Read more »
The Biden administration on Monday unveiled steps to combat corruption globally, including assistance to foreign governments to increase financial transparency and new regulations on U.S. real-estate purchases to prevent money… Read more »
A Marshall Plan-like effort to vaccinate the world’s poor would confirm that democracies can deliver and reboot the US’s global standing. The global vaccine emergency is tailor-made for a tarnished… Read more »
Next month’s virtual Summit for Democracy will take place against a “gloomy backdrop,” The New Yorker’s Sue Halpern writes. When President Joe Biden announced the summit, back in August, the… Read more »
Venezuela’s opposition will make a return to the ballot box on Sunday, putting up candidates in gubernatorial and mayoral races across the country, an about-face they say is meant to… Read more »
Xi Jinping’s drive to extend his formidable power for years ahead reached a new pitch on Tuesday, when the Chinese Communist Party issued a resolution on history that anoints him one of… Read more »
Protests in Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, the substantial boycott of Iran’s recent presidential “election”, new forms of activism, and multiple rounds of the Arab Barometer, confirm that people in the… Read more »
U.S. officials detected considerable interference by autocratic powers China, Russia and Iran during the 2020 electoral cycle, Newsweek reports: During the George Floyd demonstrations in June, DHS reported that Russia, China and Iran… Read more »