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Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan
“This report examines Taiwan’s experience in combatting foreign and domestic disinformation” and how “the methods and tools employed by Taiwan’s government to combat disinformation and foreign interference highlight the strengths of its governing institutions but also the emergent challenges other democracies will confront” (Blanchette, Kennedy, Livingston, and Glaser, 2021).
Response to European Commission Consultation on the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence
This paper “makes the argument that “a larger scope of the law will be necessary to incorporate strong measures to regulate and, in some cases, prohibit the use of AI in highly sensitive public functions such as policing, surveillance, immigration or social welfare” (Valenti and Beltrà, 2020).
The Inequality Virus
"The crisis has exposed our collective frailty and the inability of our deeply unequal economy to work for all. Yet it has also shown us the vital importance of government action to protect our health and livelihoods. Transformative policies that seemed unthinkable before the crisis have suddenly been shown to be possible" (Berkhout et. al., 2021).
Fulfilling North America's Promise
This article analyzes how relations between Canada, the USA, and Mexico will develop in light of the arrival of the Biden Administration; discusses the key topics and issues that need to be addressed in North American relations, and proposes policy recommendations.
What Works for Improving Refugee Outcomes in High-Income Countries? Policy Insights for the UK
The authors provide insight from “evidence on the impact of early interventions and related policy changes on the outcomes of refugees in high-income countries” in “four types of policies: the asylum process...job search assistance, language training and changes in social assistance.” (Ruiz and Vargas, 2021)
Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenmarksch campaign
This article examines extremism and polarization by looking at a “demonstration campaign demobilisation” that shows how “anti-far-right activists effectively engaged in a sort of kamikaze counter-mobilisation, seeking to shut down far-right events” that “spurred state authorities to act, imposing coercive measures that demobilised the far-right campaign” (Michael C. Zeller (2021)”.
Advancing Universal Representation: A Toolkit Module 2 - Building the Movement
“This report is the second component of a three-part toolkit... informed by CPD, NILC, and Vera’s experiences advancing the universal representation movement. These experiences have been guided by the expertise of advocates, organizers, legal service providers, and policymakers... who have led publicly funded deportation defense efforts” (Berberich et al., 2018).
Tyrants gaze with glee at what Trump has done to American democracy
Trump’s “incitement of the violent assault on the US Capitol was the savage consummation of the four years of vandalism he has unleashed on America’s body politic” (Andrew Rawnsley, 2021).
The age of national self-interest must end if we are to vanquish the pandemic
“Libertarianism has led to rich countries vying for vaccines. Collaboration, not competition, is the only the way forward” (Will Hutton 2021).
How Trumpism May Endure
“One hundred and fifty years after the emergence of the Confederate Lost Cause ideology, a new Lost Cause invaded the U.S. Capitol with the incitement of the president of the United States. Waving American, Confederate, Gadsden and, especially, Trump flags, Donald Trump’s loyalists desecrated the greatest symbolic edifice of America” (David W. Blight, 2021).
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