democracy

22/01/2024 - 17:42

It was an elite affair as always, with sky-high lodging fees, champagne nightcaps, and chances to see and be seen by people holding some of... →

22/01/2024 - 16:32

This notable run of elections will take place in a global context defined by an ongoing democratic recession and ever-intensifying... →

20/11/2023 - 16:35

In the more than seven decades since they were written, these documents have frequently been ignored. The UN Genocide Convention did not... →

20/07/2023 - 17:29

The problem with trying to examine today’s issues through what I half-remember, half-imagine were my 21-year-old eyes and mind, is that... →

31/05/2023 - 13:02

The rest of the world remembers Potemkin differently, for something that we would now call a disinformation campaign. In 1787, Catherine... →

24/05/2023 - 14:50

This column describes how social media and the internet have proved to be tools in the hands of autocracies intent on surveillance,... →

29/03/2023 - 13:42

When a judge knows he was appointed by a member of a government of a particular ideology, he will most definitely keep that in mind while... →

12/03/2023 - 16:06

Is the rift in Israel too large to be overcome? Instead of trying for more unity, should we try a split? That is the question that... →

25/02/2023 - 14:35

The leaders of those protests cite the same prophecy. And both sides claim the same goal: saving Israel’s democracy. Since Binyamin... →

02/01/2023 - 12:54

In the worst case, we can resent the people who have helped us, and portray them in a negative light, just to avoid the feeling that... →

19/12/2022 - 13:34

Few will miss 2022, a year defined by a lingering pandemic, advancing climate change, galloping inflation, slowing economic growth, and,... →

08/11/2022 - 13:49

Was it naive to believe that Russia would take a democratic turn after abandoning communism? As the Cold War ended, the West first embraced... →

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