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The Myth of American Innocence
“This willful act of forgetting — compounded by the myth of American innocence — has shown itself to be dangerous...it allowed many Americans to view the president’s insistence that he had won an election in which he was actually trounced, and his simultaneous embrace of right-wing extremism, as political theater” (Brent Staples, 2021).
Shaken Nation Needs to Reinvent Democracy
“It has been the erosion of these mediating institutions in modern democracies that has led to the all-out partisanship and stark polarization that today puts republics at risk just as the founders rightly worried” (Nathan Gardels, 2021).
Trump’s legacy—the shame and the opportunity
“The election myth that Mr Trump has spun may thus have broken the feedback loop needed for the party to change. Ditching a failed leader and broken strategy is one thing. Abandoning someone whom you and most of your friends think is the rightful president, and whose power was taken away in a gigantic fraud by your political enemies, is something else entirely” (The Economist, 2021).
Can Regulation Douse Populism’s Online Fires?
“The storming of the U.S. Capitol should not come as a surprise to those who have been tracking the impact of social media on activism and political campaigning...what has happened in the United States can happen anywhere in the world, and many democratic countries are sitting on a tinderbox” (Nikhil Pahwa, 2021)
It Happened in America
“It was always easy...to dismiss the worst-case scenarios as the product of alarmist academics, overly imaginative Trump haters, biased liberal commentators, and disgruntled former officials.” Could “concerning outcomes” “really happen in a country like the United States, with its deep democratic roots and established institutional checks? To many, that seemed unthinkable” (Pippa Norris, 2021).
America Can’t Promote Democracy Abroad. It Can’t Even Protect It at Home.
The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol is “a sign of how broken U.S. foreign-policy debates are that the primary reaction from many commentators was to worry about America’s moral authority and global leadership” (Emma Ashford, 2021).
Are We the Cows of the Future?
“Nature is not settled and permanent, but always in flux. It is not something separate from humans, reliably ready to soothe our woes and restore our spirits. It is rather entangled in the web and substance of humanity, its helter-skelter activity, its ceaseless pursuits” (Esther Leslie, 2021).
Doing Democracy During the Pandemic
“Social distancing laws, curfews, and track-and-trace technologies employed in the context of the COVID-19 crisis have been used to harass, detain, or sanction human-rights defenders and other activists in countries around the world. But that hasn't stopped the global wave of protests from continuing to build” (Lara Wodke, 2020).
Annual Review Of Constitution-Building: 2019
The first chapter summarizes a series of discussions International IDEA held with experts/scholars on the evolution of constitution-building from the past decade. The edition also includes chapters on public participation, constitutional change, the negotiations on federal state structures in Guinea, Mongolia, Zimbabwe and many other nations. (Abebe, et al., 2020)
A Messy Financial Divorce for the US and China
“Even as official financial decoupling progresses, US and other financial firms are – with China’s blessing – building asset management, securities, life insurance, fintech, and custody businesses in the Chinese market. Should President-elect Joe Biden's administration support this process or double down on decoupling? (George Magnus, 2021).
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