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Capitalism We Can Believe In
“President-elect Joe Biden’s call to “build back better” after the pandemic is an invitation to renovate America’s outdated neoliberal version of capitalism. The more successful variants of market capitalism found in Europe or, better, in California, point the way forward” (Tyson and Mendonca, 2021).
Democracy at Home and Democracy Promotion Abroad Aren’t the Same
“Drawing too simple a link between the United States foreign and domestic failings makes fixing them more difficult. Doing so...risks misdiagnosing the pernicious role of racism in American politics. Restoring American democracy while righting its foreign policy requires acknowledging the messy, more troubling relationship between them” (Nick Danforth, 2021).
The Insurrection Hiding in Plain Sight
“For several months, millions of people in the United States have been living in an alternate reality—one in which President Donald Trump has been fighting off a coordinated effort to steal the presidency from him and give it to Joe Biden….on Wednesday, January 6, the United States’ alternate reality came into violent conflict with its actual reality” (DiResta and Stamos, 2021).
Industrialized Disinformation: 2020 Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
This report “highlights the recent trends of computational propaganda across 81 countries and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources used to manipulate public opinion around the globe. We identify three key trends in this year’s inventory of disinformation activity” (Bradshaw, Bailey, and Howard, 2021).
Global Insights: Covid-19 And The Information Space
“The analyses presented in these essays span a range of topics—media sustainability, authoritarian influence, fact-checking, research partnerships, data privacy—affecting regions like Europe, North and South America, and Africa" (National Endowment for Democracy, 2021).
Trump Is Blowing Apart the G.O.P. God Bless Him.
“If just a few principled center-right Republicans... abandoned this G.O.P. or were simply willing to work with a center-left Biden team, the Problem Solvers Caucus in the House and like-minded members in the Senate...would become stronger than ever. That’s how we start to dial down the madness coursing through our nation” (Friedman 2021).
Trump Has Made America a Laughingstock
“There is already an abundance of commentary on the impact of Mr. Trump’s mutiny on American democracy. We can only hope that the attack on Congress was the final battle of the last Civil War, not the beginning of a new one” (Ivan Krastev, 2021).
Donald Trump’s Costly Legacy
“Donald Trump’s presidency has been a consequential one, but more for its destructive effects than for its achievements. The damage caused by repeated attacks on American democracy, an inept pandemic response, and disruptive foreign-policy decisions will be difficult – if not impossible – to repair anytime soon” (Richard Haass, 2021).
Europe’s China Gambit
“The new EU-China agreement underscores a fundamental question of the post-pandemic world order: How should strategic and economic relations between major powers with very different institutional and political arrangements be managed? Can democracies remain true to their values while engaging in trade and investment with China?” (Dani Rodrik, 2021).
Narendra Modi’s Potemkin Democracy
“India's prime minister has an "edifice complex" that has given rise to grand new government buildings, including a planned new parliament. Sadly, the spirit of deliberation and debate that animated the old parliament building risks being left there” (Shashi Tharoor, 2021).
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