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Policy Recommendations: Strengthening Democracy

…“A growing disregard for the conditions that form the foundations of democracy...threatens to destabilize the democratic order” and “prioritizing a narrow support base at the expense of ensuring fundamental freedoms for…

Philanthrocapitalism in global health and nutrition: analysis and implications

…“Large global foundations play an...active role in shaping the global development agenda and in setting the funding priorities for international institutions and national governments alike… This discussion paper is an…

Response to the European Commission Consultation on the European Democracy Action Plan

…This submission, which was "developed in collaboration with different parts of the Open Society Foundations, provides recommendations for ambitious EU action in the areas of election integrity and online political…

Democracy Is Weakening Right in Front of Us

… the consensus has shifted to anxiety that online behemoths... have created a crisis of knowledge — confounding what is true and what is untrue — eroding the foundations of democracy” (Thomas B. Edsall, 2021).

Foreign Aid Is Having a Reckoning

… mirrors a trend taking place in philanthropy inside the United States: Leaders of American private foundations are increasingly willing to grapple publicly with the fact that organizations run by Black and…

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on technocrats replacing Africa’s kleptocrats

…“Instead of trying to work around governments, the aid agencies, foundations and companies operating in Africa could partner with the public sector and commit funds annually to improve the education and training of…

The Elites Were Living High. Then Came the Fall.

… democracy and the Romans undermined it with imperialism,” Ugarit and Mycenae “of the Bronze Age laid the foundations for what is often called Western civilization...the final decades of Ugarit and Mycenae tell us a…

Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World

…“​​Facebook has been incredibly lucrative for its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who ranks among the wealthiest men in the world. But it’s been a disaster for the world itself, a powerful vector for paranoia, propaganda and…

Israel’s Real Existential Threat

…“For Israelis to form a shared civic identity, Jews need to fulfill Israel’s founding promise to grant full equality to all citizens and reassure Arabs that “Israeli” is not a synonym for “Jew.” Arabs need to come to…

The Founding Fathers of International Relations Theory Loved War but Overlooked Sex

“When it came to power in pre-modern Europe, Morgenthau and other IR theorists zoomed in on war and conflict...but their attempt to find simple lessons of history is complicated by the fact that the