But in a country whose very origin story as the birthplace of modern democracy was created by a powerful leader stepping to the side, in George Washington, what if true leadership was about paradoxically making yourself completely dispensable? Rather than glamorizing Iger’s return to the top rank at Disney, it’s worth asking what his self-selected successor’s failure says about his own leadership.
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Or maybe I could tell a story about how demographics, abortion and democracy help explain the pattern.
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“He’s a gracious man – he was talking about democracy and America’s promise,” he added.
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Luckily, there was also humor to be found in this tragic story of a democracy gone wrong.
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Catastrophic Theatre presents They Do Not Move at MATCH | Thursday to Saturday | Final Weekend – Imagine a future where American democracy is vanquished and monarchist forces roam the land seeking out waifs and strays.
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Voters rebuffed the most aggressive efforts to weaken democracy in the midterms.
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tech giant Google is under increasing pressure by the Hong Kong government — and, by association, China — to bury in its search results a politically sensitive pro-democracy song that has been mistaken for the national anthem.
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Author Clarence Lusane says Tubman’s lifelong struggle to open the doors of our democracy has a lot to teach us today.
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Lake’s suit “baseless” in a post of her own on Twitter, describing it as the “latest desperate attempt to undermine our democracy and throw out the will of the voters.
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If you look at what’s happening with climate change or the faltering of democracy or women’s rights, there’s an inclination to say, “Should I be hopeful or should I despair?” – as if those are the only two options.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
“As Tom Stoppard pointed out in Jumpers, in democracy it doesn’t matter who gets the votes, it matters who counts the votes,” he said.
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This has happened in a context of “no democracy and no independence or balance of powers,” as well as a complex system of international corruption, leaving limited avenues for redress or change.
Source: Brookings Institution
In politics, it arguably damages our democracy and turns governing into a never-ending process of jockeying for the best position ahead of the next election, never mind the real problems that deserve attention now.
Source: Journal Record
The very principles of democracy are being attacked by both China and the naked aggression of Russia.
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Moreover, it is an established democracy with a long legal tradition and a notably young, talented, and English-speaking work force.
Source: Foreign Affairs Magazine
Twitter CEO Elon Musk took to his platform Friday evening to call out Big Tech’s influence over the election process, calling such involvement "wrong" and saying it only serves to cripple democracy.
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Dispel the darkness of winter and fight for democracy in Ukraine with the robust choral sounds of Oakland-based vocal ensemble, Kitka.
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“Be sure that in Iran, within the framework of democracy and freedom, which very clearly exists in Iran, everything is going very well,” he said.
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You really have to look at the enlightenment period, in which the basic foundations of modern democracy were established: the 1700s when European philosophers and American philosophers really wrote down the fundamental principles of rights.
Source: The Verge
The Secretary of State in New Hampshire is obligated to maintain and improve our democracy for Granite Staters.
Source: Concord Monitor
For democracy to survive, journalists must be protected from government surveillance and shielded from harassment.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
“Exactly 23 months ago, our nation suffered the most staggering assault on democracy since the Civil War,” said Pelosi.
Source: WEAU
While the immediate danger to democracy seems to have been averted, the list of suspects makes for troubling reading.
Source: The Washington Post
In these times of climate chaos, rising authoritarianism and war, Democracy Now! needs your help more than ever to hold the powerful to account and amplify the voices of the scholars, scientists, activists, artists and everyday people who are working to save democracy—and the planet.
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Throughout the process of internationalization, however, Jiang continued to openly reject Western-style multiparty democracy and warn of “hostile forces” trying to undermine the party’s rule — a line that has been used frequently under Xi, including during the recent surge of discontent.
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""For proving that courage can be as contagious as fear, for stirring people and nations to come together in defense of freedom, for reminding the world of the fragility of democracy — and of peace — Volodymyr Zelensky and the spirit of Ukraine are TIME's 2022 Person of the Year," he added.
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“It strikes me that a ballot initiative is the purest form of democracy,” said Deputy Chief Justice Lisabeth Hughes.
Source: The New York Times
No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth.
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Supreme Court, has been said to have the potential to end democracy as we know it.
Source: Yahoo News
Susan DeCarava, president of the NewsGuild of New York, said in response, “Union democracy is crucial to union power.
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"Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Ultra MAGAism, and most importantly: sent a good man back to the Senate.
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“51–52,” Aynex Mercado
By also calling for Puerto Rican statehood, it’s a reminder, Garlock says, that “there are other places in our country where democracy does not prevail.
Source: Washingtonian
In addition, these platforms influence not just what we do online, but they also influence what we do in the real world: misinformation and hate speech, for instance, harm our capabilities to make informed decisions, and reduce trust in science, public health organizations, electoral processes and democracy as a whole.
Source: Nature.com
Another passion of hers was freedom of information, which for those not paying close attention, is actually the biggest nonpartisan threat to our democracy out there today.
Source: Alexandria Times
Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid)
Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy
It is little surprise that the NSS has a lot to say about democracy in theory as well as practice.
Source: Brookings Institution
Biden's three-day summit will feature announcements of new US investment and highlight food security — worsened by the invasion of Ukraine — but, unlike China, also focus on values such as democracy and good governance, as well as fighting climate change.
Source: The Manila Times
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Colum Kenny: Our collective amnesia about true nature of the Civil War is dangerous: Questions of legitimacy and democracy that underpinned the Civil War have consequences today, north and south of the Border.
Source: The Irish Times
We have not managed, for example, to have an emotion related to the term “Europe,” or to “democracy.
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The book’s chilling message of how easily democracy is destroyed when lies become truth; the media is suppressed; and, anyone who stands in “the Leader’s” way is silenced, driven from office, and worse, resonates as clearly today as it did eight decades ago.
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Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station website compromised to serve a Safari exploit that installed cyberespionage malware on site visitors’ Macs
On November 11th, Google TAG published a blogpost about watering-hole attacks leading to exploits for the Safari web browser running on macOS.
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Russia’s cleaving off is a defeat for the once-held Western belief that the internet is a tool for democracy that would lead authoritarian countries to open.
Source: The New York Times
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A Hong Kong court on Saturday sentenced jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai to five years and nine months in prison for fraud, in the latest legal challenge against the pro-democracy tycoon.
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UAW President Ray Curry said in October that “by refusing to recognize their majority will’ Ultium ‘has decided to ignore democracy and delay the recognition process.
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Its democracy, security, and prosperity depend on binding power to common rules,” Scholz wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine.
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Asunka says that most African stakeholders are in favor of conditions that would drive the growth of democracy and accountable governance, stipulations not usually associated with Chinese aid.
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“There’s been a lot of talk about the impact of this decision on democracy.
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Among the signers of the Declaration on the Future of the Internet, it stands out as the only large and advanced democracy that has no comprehensive privacy law.
Source: Brookings Institution
There’s a strand questioning the very nature of parliamentary democracy and its ability to give people a voice, but this is quickly dropped.
Source: The Guardian
John Foster, author of Realism and the Climate Crisis, replied that vast grassroots movements were too slow, and activism would always be the preserve of an intellectual elite; indeed, democracy itself was too slow for the challenges ahead.
Source: The Guardian
"You can't have democracy without an informed electorate," he said.
Source: Star Tribune
The GATT is important, but not more important than protecting democracy and saving the planet.
Source: The New York Times
Most important, our hegemony has helped protect democracy worldwide against challenges from authoritarianism.
Source: The Atlantic
Two groups raise concern about party's directionSunak has stabilised government but faces discontentLawmakers unhappy over high taxes, democracy in partyLONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - British Conservative politicians on Sunday launched two campaigns to address concerns about the direction of the party and the government, the latest challenge to new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's attempts to unite a fractured party.
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But he realized that the only way that they could achieve their struggle, which is democracy for Black South Africans and free and fair elections, was they had to embrace this policy of violence.
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EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said in October that Bosnia had to fulfill a long list of conditions designed to bolster democracy and the rule of law in the Balkan country, including undergoing structural reforms of the judiciary, taking steps to fight corruption, and implementing constitutional and electoral changes in order to qualify for candidate status.
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Elgan Hearn, local democracy reporter
Promises to serve meat and dairy products at Powys schools are being sought by councillors who fear that menus could become vegetarian and vegan cuisine only.
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What are the implications for democracy of a public culture grown so intensely theatrical?
Cancel culture, callouts, online harassment, mob justice, accountability: all of these terms refer to structurally similar phenomena (the targeting of the one by the many, in front of an audience), yet none offers a neutral description.
Source: The Yale Review
And that the result of that lack of a complex understanding of religion in this arena has been the—the hamstringing of the ability of the international system to operate in ways that are effective in bringing justice, peace, democracy, human rights, and development.
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These were complemented by national indicators of governance, including the level of democracy ranging from autocratic to democratic regimes, and economic complexity representing the diversified capability of a country’s economy26.
Source: Nature.com
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President Biden forged consensus and compromise between Democrats, Republicans and Independents to demonstrate our democracy can deliver big wins for the American people.
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“Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Ultra MAGAism, and most importantly: sent a good man back to the Senate.
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But technology plus democracy equals worse democracy.
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He would later embrace democracy but Kérékou’s plans for Benin – known as Dahomey until 1975 -–was not one conducive to radical self-expression.
Source: The Quietus
“I think it will undermine democracy in this country if legislators are able to gerrymander the districts, both congressional and within the states.
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is to democracy in the world, explaining that their opponents that day were actually their allies.
Source: The New Yorker
Buy on AmazonBookshopLady Justiceby Dahlia Lithwick (Penguin Press)NonfictionIn a richly layered set of profiles, a noted legal correspondent chronicles efforts by female lawyers to bolster democracy during the Trump Presidency.
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This year, it’s all the more important to offer a widely inclusive list, because a wide range of American filmmakers have caught up with the inescapable phenomenon of the recent past: the resurgence of openly anti-democratic forces and brazenly hate-driven ideologies, the crisis of illegitimate rule, the menace of authoritarianism, the potential end of even our current debilitated American democracy.
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Montpelier artist Eve Jacobs-Carnahan thinks democracy is no different.
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As an Iranian-Tennessean, I know that democracy is a reason to sacrifice much, and the basis upon which a community, city and country can be sustainably built.
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“This stunning play is work, work on the house we call democracy.
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The court’s decision on this alarming argument could fundamentally reshape American democracy.
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