Democracy

Why Isn't Election Day A National Holiday In The U.S.?

In many other democracies around the world, national elections are held on the weekend or are a federal holiday. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
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Fed Up With Politics, She Left The U.S. 20 Years Ago. Has Anything Changed?

When the Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the White House, Jennifer Berdahl knew democracy was broken.
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People Across The World Are Anxious About ‘Dangerous’ U.S. Election

To millions, it seems the choice isn't about Donald Trump or Joe Biden but the survival of U.S. democracy -- and what that means for their nations.
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Bob Woodward: Trump Is 'Putting A Dagger In The Constitution'

The journalist and "Rage" author commented on Trump's disturbing refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election.
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Bernie Sanders: ‘This Is An Election Between Donald Trump And Democracy’

The senator used his first public political event since March to paint a grim picture of President Trump's threat to U.S. democracy.
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Ex-Staffer Says Facebook Can't Protect Other Countries From Political Manipulation: Report

Sophie Zhang wrote a 6,600-word memo revealing what it was like to combat bots designed to undermine democracy in other countries, according to BuzzFeed.
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‘We Weren’t Alarmist Enough’: Experts Warn Trump And GOP Could Destroy Democracy

They rang alarms about the rise of authoritarianism in America in 2018. It's only gotten worse since then.
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The Useful Idiot

How Donald Trump killed the Republican Party with racism and the rest of us with coronavirus.
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Jair Bolsonaro Is Pushing Brazil’s Democracy To Its Breaking Point

Brazil's democracy may not be strong enough to withstand the onslaught it's facing from a far-right president hellbent on bending every institution to his will.
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Many Countries See The Pandemic As A Crisis. Authoritarians Spot An Opportunity.

Autocratic leaders have obscured coronavirus data, cracked down on doctors and reporters, and used the health crisis to further erode democracies worldwide.
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