Mill owner Julian Carr went so far as to implement at his Durham Hosiery Mills a system of “industrial democracy” based on the U.S. federal government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

By collective stewardship of the land and a clan-village system of democracy it avoided giving all the political control and decision-making to a single group. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The world must be made safe for democracy,” Wilson said in his declaration of war to Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nor can we leave success out of the history of parliamentary democracy or the novel; but democracies sometimes fail, and sometimes the novels get worse not better. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All the brave Athenian talk about democracy applied only to a privileged few. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"In a democracy everybody speaks,” said Dad, "so, by jingo, start speaking.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that his enemies were conspiring with the generals to launch a coup d’etat because they would rather see democracy dead than be governed by him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When democracy came, everyone had to be paid a minimum wage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We thought there would be freedom and democracy, and that money would start flowing into the country like a long-awaited rainstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Soweto was beautiful because, after democracy, you watched Soweto grow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were a democracy at the Khushal School, so every girl would get a chance to speak. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The people, I said, wanted democracy, and political leadership based on merit not birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All he needs is a toothpick in the corner of his mouth to be an ad for rural democracy, as in an etching. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unaccustomed to democracy, many Germans had little faith in their president and elected Reichstag. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Contemporary Ethiopia was not a model when it came to democracy, either. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all play a role in this democracy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When Hitler was appointed the chancellor of Germany six years before Dasch decided to return, on January 30, 1933, it marked the end of democracy for the country and the beginning of nationalism. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Democracy,” Papi says, “but democracy is only the beginning. Education is the key.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg admired President Harry Truman’s response—a commitment to supporting democracies and containing Soviet influence from spreading further. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery or servitude, and in which poverty, want and insecurity shall be no more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conquest and liberation and democracy and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was astute enough to be the first to call the left “the enemy of democracy,” never suspecting that years later that would be the slogan of the dictatorship. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the symbol of justice in the court of the oppressor, the representative of the great ideals of freedom, fairness, and democracy in a society that dishonored those virtues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren't focused on building a better democracy or getting to the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I've learned not to take democracy or my vote for granted, especially having seen how elections brought on tumultuous times in Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Bantu Authorities was a retreat from democracy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

American principles, freedom, democracy, and justice for all, withstand the test of time. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Television had shrunk the world, and had in the process become a great weapon for eradicating ignorance and promoting democracy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, for a start, here was a place just getting used to a radical and unprecedented experiment with democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

NM: My Lord, it is not a question of form, it is a question of democracy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suffragists would still carry protest banners, but they would also burn copies of President Wilson’s speeches in front of the White House, symbolically destroying his declarations of democracy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The success of democracy depended on educated voters, he said. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His years as a community organizer had shown him how many people felt unheard and disenfranchised within our democracy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. Same price. This is my patriotic deed today. I’m making the world safe for democracy.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But if a democracy could best be expressed by a multiparty system then I would examine that carefully. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, the Federal Republic of Germany is a thriving democracy with a federation of sixteen states. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we see both liberals and conservatives endorsing the same meta-narrative of American individualism: When individuals get ahead, the group triumphs. When individuals succeed, American democracy prevails.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The whole system of capitalistic democracy is—rotten and corrupt. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That Barack was a good person with a big mind and serious faith in democracy was no longer any sort of secret. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A Russian colonel, holding up his pack of cigarettes, inquired of Farmer if America was a democracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This being a direct rather than a representative democracy, membership of the demos, or sovereign body, was by right rather than by election, and every decision was taken on a one-man, one-vote basis. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Upon this racist fiction rests the entire structure of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If you haven’t got democracy yourself, how can you carry it to somebody else?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a democracy I was like, Then what is it? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben reads: "American principles, freedom, democracy, and justice for all, withstand the test of time. History changes. Relationships between Americans change. But America's ideals remain strong or adapt and get stronger." Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even in democracies today, crucial knowledge is available to only a few individuals, who control the flow of information to the rest of the government and consequently control decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Here, ancient Athens resembles a modern democracy even less than in the previous particulars. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In their eyes, he was a danger to democracy—“a man who flouted the authority of the Senate, who overrode the Constitution while his followers cheered.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Another newspaper commented, “Many indulge the hope that America’s entry in the conflict to make the world safe for democracy,’ will result in giving a new meaning to democracy in America.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship—nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Thus Architecture died in the land of the free and the home of the brave—in a land declaring its fervid democracy, its inventiveness, its resourcefulness, its unique daring, enterprise and progress.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was very hard to concentrate while my sisters were giving me a pop quiz on world democracy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them I believed in the Freedom Charter, that the charter embodied principles of democracy and human rights, and that it was not a blueprint for socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a country that preaches the virtues of democracy, one could reasonably assume that being stripped of basic political rights would be treated by judges and court personnel as a serious matter indeed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many Americans assumed that presidents in a democracy weren't at risk of assassination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had a tough day at the office making the world safe for democracy. I’m hungry.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He wanted the German people to learn the virtues of democracy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world’s preeminent democracy, after all, if large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you were not a democracy or a democratizing society, if you continued to hold fast to highly regulated or centrally planned economics, you were seen as being on the wrong side of history. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Fascism, which we associate so strongly with the Nazi Party, is a form of government rooted in nationalism, in which democracy gives way to a dictator. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Kalugin's appearance had an electrifying effect on the crowd and on the larger democracy movement inside Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Within months, he had been elected to the Congress of People's Deputies as a leading figure of the movement for democracy in Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Or the Caste System. Constantly proposed, constantly rejected. There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The United States embraced democracy, while the Soviet Union was ruled by communism. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Those who survived were returning to a nation different from the one they had departed, to make, in the words of their president, the world “safe for democracy.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She says this country hasn’t voted for anything in twenty-six years and it’s only these silly little elections that keep the faint memory of a democracy going. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For if its democracy looks less democratic than ours, its courts look far more so. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Only the Standard had a critical editorial, calling on the new military government to quickly implement a return to democracy plan. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why has a man got to be Jim-Crowed to die for democracy? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So we opposed elections,” Ellsberg concluded as he read, “while pretending to support democracy.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This system turned out to be more reliable than working out complicated arrangements with the nervous ambassadors of the foreign democracies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And that’s a humble homage to liberty. To democracy and tyranny. To freedom and piracy.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Out in the field, they weren’t fighting to protect democracy, or the United States, or any ideal. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My people had been brought here against their will—without the advantages of speaking English, understanding what democracy meant, or knowing anything about how people lived here. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Barred by law from invoking race explicitly, those committed to racial hierarchy were forced to search for new means of achieving their goals according to the new rules of American democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And most importantly, Papi says, Mr. Kennedy has declared himself a champion of democracy around the world. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

White English colonists did not create a literate, food-producing, industrial democracy in Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We had thought Sufi Mohammad would tell his followers to put down their weapons, but instead he called democracy un-Islamic and encouraged them to keep fighting. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Sixty people died building the Twin Towers, architectural marvels that would forever symbolically represent the strength of America and its principles of democracy and capitalism.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were connecting voters more directly to their democracy, whether through the field office down the street or a website through which they could organize their own meetings and phone banks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It is not aristocracy for some of the people, but a democracy for all of the people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At a distance, the war between East and West—between communism and democracy—might have seemed like a simple choice between good and evil, black and white. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Umkhonto we Sizwe will carry on the struggle for freedom and democracy by new methods, which are necessary to complement the actions of the established national liberation movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one, it was an ocean away, foreigners hurting and killing other foreigners, and the Nazis weren’t Americans; they didn’t have the principles of freedom and democracy that we had. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She stuck to the argument that in a democracy, women must have the right to vote, noting that female suffrage “serves the highest interest of the country.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Soviet Communists saw the West as their prime adversary in the battle to win the hearts and minds of oppressed people everywhere; America viewed Stalin's government as an enemy of democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Alabama and across the South during the early 1960s, African Americans were denied the most fundamental right in a democracy—the right to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government suggested that Bantu Authorities would free the people from the control of white magistrates, but this was a smoke screen for the state’s undermining of democracy and promotion of tribal rivalries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy, mistress and servant both scrabbled unseeingly in the same bowl of nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning very serious, Farmer answered with a long speech about democracy and socialism, the rich and poor, power and privilege. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For democracy to work, Eisenhower realized that one of the most important civil liberties was the freedom of speech. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when Mr. Larson squinted and rubbed his hands together and said, “It’s like we get to mess around in our own private democracy laboratory!” even Cara had to smile. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Black Americans knew, and they answered as they had each time their country called: for democracy abroad and at home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“This is a democracy. It’s not a dictatorship and it never will be.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The responsibility...,” the press release said, “is with the government and not with the women of America, if the lack of democracy at home weakens government in its fight for democracy three thousand miles away.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Anatole’s students did essentially the same, displaying a constant impulse to educate him about democracy and human rights—arrogant sophomores! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A heady mix of Eastern Marxism and orthodox Hinduism, spiked with a shot of democracy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It little resembles the representative democracy we recognize today, so it’s worth making a brief sketch of how it worked. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We shall fight for the things which we have always held nearest to our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was there, at the request of the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile, to give a series of lectures on world democracy. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Freedom of the word is the first prelude to democracy. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It shakes one’s faith in democracy to think that such hysteria and panic can affect people who are supposed to vote intelligently next week.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After democracy came, people said, “Okay, how do we create order without having different groups feel like they’ve been left out of power again?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yet those charged with mounting the American offense in space saw strength in countering the Russian value of secrecy with its opposites— transparency, democracy, equality—and not a simulacrum. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Lawrence replied that “the idea of a federation of democracies may have much practical merit, but... I would not think of using my position as a scientist in furthering such a political movement.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Anaxagoras was brought to Athens by Pericles, its leader in its time of greatest glory, but also the man whose actions led to the Peloponnesian War, which destroyed Athenian democracy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not only a display of pinpoint precision and military force, but a demonstration of the military’s loyalty to democracy, to a new government that had been freely and fairly elected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does he really think that when you write the history of parliamentary democracy or of the novel that you should not, Whiggishly, tell a story of cumulation? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This was the call-and-response of democracy, I realized, a contract forged person by person. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy' and freedom for all! Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ax that boy what he thinks of democracy sometime.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and Libya, by pushing for democracy, are arguing, in effect, for the right to argue. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In this sense at least, the original democracy was not the most fertile ground for such inquiries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The way I see it, England's a democracy, and we in this village have suffered as much as anyone fighting to keep it that way. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Better yet, he added, allow for a full and unlimited democracy in Upper Silesia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armed conflict between communism and democracy was no longer a frightening possibility but a terrifying reality. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We of the ANC have always stood for a nonracial democracy, and we shrank from any action which might drive the races further apart than they already were. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the Nazi Party considered democracy even worse, and was vehemently opposed to it. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Indigenous peoples are portrayed as having helped make the country great by sharing corn, beans, buckskin, log cabins, parkas, maple syrup, canoes, and even the basic concepts of democracy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as long as they had been code breakers, Elizebeth and William had been concerned about the impact of secrecy on democracy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And some people still think this is a democracy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I told the court how I had joined the African National Congress and how its policy of democracy and nonracialism reflected my own deepest convictions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your first lesson: My studio is not a democracy. Have a donut.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Bubbles full of the hot air of American democracy, boiling up from the stacked vinyl platters inside. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“In a democracy, the government is the people,” Milo explained. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the interests of democracy, we then consulted with our men in F and G on the matter, and they were adamantly opposed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, there would be a multiparty democracy based on universal adult suffrage on a common voters’ roll. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the society that they created was not a literate, food-producing, industrial democracy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet remembered a speech: In a land where all slaves are servants, all servants are slaves, and thus ends democracy. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Britain being the home of parliamentary democracy, it was that democracy that had helped inflict a pernicious system of iniquity on my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was nearly six when Mandela was released, ten before democracy finally came, yet she was preparing me to live a life of freedom long before we knew freedom would exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“See you boys at the game tonight. I’ve got to go and keep the world safe for democracy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before democracy, chattel slavery in America was born. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For tens of thousands of workers, particularly those who had risked their lives by fighting to save democracy in the Great War, it was a bitter blow. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When tank battalions approached the Congress, democracy protesters threw up barricades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They joined thousands of ordinary citizens who rallied in Moscow and around the country to support Gorbachev, and democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I was like, You got to believe in the people, it’s a democracy, we can change things. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to an account written in the Suffragist, they burned “all the words he has ever uttered or written on the subject of democracy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This, I have always thought, is a remarkable thing about democracy. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that poverty in a democracy was preferable to wealth in a tyranny. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what we Nigerians needed was not soldiers ruling us, what we needed was a renewed democracy. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some women accepted the Fourteenth Amendment as a step toward democracy for African American men, assuming that women’s rights would follow. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“If the Americans mean to teach us about democracy, the lesson is quite remarkable,” Anatole observed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the logistical difficulties of the voting, misplaced ballots, pirate voting stations, and rumors of fraud in certain places could not dim the overwhelming victory for democracy and. justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our class even had a discussion: The government may not be behaving as it should, but could we run our classroom a bit more like a democracy? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Appalled by the carnage, distressed by conflicting advice, he was sure of only one thing: he couldn’t let a democracy fall into Communist hands. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I told myself, “I will continue this journey of fighting for peace and democracy in my country.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It is, in consequence, a cousin of the arguments made against democracy itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

If democracy would be best expressed by a one-party system then I would examine the proposition very carefully. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what root is "democracy" derived?—What adjective is formed from "democracy"?—Is Russia at present a democracy?—Can you mention any ancient governments that for a time were democracies? New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The triumph of democracy over apartheid is sometimes called the Bloodless Revolution. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Of course, that convention was not a tribute to democracy but a betrayal of it, for none of the representatives there that day were black. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine, if you will, the sudden descent of democracy on an unprepared population. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s John Adams. He meant democracy is fragile. All we can do right now is go along.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The only thing this scheme lacked was democracy, for ultimately power resided exclusively in the “executive branch,” which could veto any measures passed by the “legislature.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were, many believed, an extension of the Communist activities that sought to upend American democracy and disrupt capitalism as they knew it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It was the beginning of a whirlwind tour and another in the series of awards we received for “bravery and significant contributions to democracy.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the greatest free democracy in the world. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Who would control Europe, they asked, and whose system—democracy or communism—should dominate the world? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1960s, African American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., made the right to vote, the most fundamental right in any democracy, their highest priority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In Berlin, he knew, an ambitious liberal democracy with socialist leanings was shedding the husk of its past and guiding the birth of a new republic in the thirties. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We thought military intervention was a necessary step for the return to a healthy democracy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A more democratic world—and one with the legal institutions that go hand in hand with democracy—is a more rhetorical one. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I thought of Western democracy and freedom, I thought of the British parliamentary system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They then called on all responsible and law-abiding blacks to help the government thwart attempts to turn South Africa —a Christian, civilized, peace-loving multinational democracy—into a Russian satellite. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court—the one branch of government charged with the responsibility of protecting “discrete and insular minorities” from the excesses of majoritarian democracy and guaranteeing constitutional rights for groups deemed unpopular or subject to prejudice. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like them never telling you that it’s a republic and not a democracy. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of you and the youth of Iran while marching the streets of my own city, chanting “This is democracy.” Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she said things like It’s not a democracy, suddenly I couldn’t stand to be having this whole conversation. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because if it was a democracy, everybody would have to decide about everything. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rest assured of that, my son. In our free democracy, even fighting for its life, the truth will out.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that the colonel only wanted to know if he needed permission from Farmer to smoke his cigarette, if that was what happened in a democracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy,” said a grave and solemn J. Michael Luttig, a Republican former judge, during the second hearing, on June 16. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

It depicts the short, slim 44-year-old with an infectious smile as a champion of democracy and human rights. ?The Island President? and Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives 2012-03-28T12:00:00Z

This shared experience of “animal vulnerability,” she says, holds the biggest promise and peril for a democracy. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The first mood defends liberal democracy as a precious inheritance that requires tending; the second excoriates it for its spiritual shallowness, cultural degeneracy and tendency toward an individualist myopia or socialist utopia. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts,” Obama says. Review | Letterman sits down with Obama, but both men seem rusty and off their game 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“I would much rather talk about whether elections are, in fact, a necessary and sufficient component of democracy.” 2018 Festival Albertine to Explore Democracy and Its Future 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

He also reflects the recurrent Egyptian debate about whether the consequence of democracy may be the creation of an Islamic republic. The Prophet - review 2012-06-22T17:04:17Z

She thinks of the Capitol as the temple of democracy — a sacred place, more than the Vatican, probably. Alexandra Pelosi on Filming Her Mother, Nancy Pelosi, During the Jan. 6 Attack 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Because in a democracy, for better or worse, we are all married to one other. Review: ‘The Cake’ Is Well-Baked but Not Quite Filling 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

India is said to be one of the great economic success stories of modern times: an emerging power and the world's biggest democracy. VIDEO: Arundhati Roy: India's success a 'lie' 2011-06-02T00:34:13Z

Q. But you think that it’s too bad that Europe isn’t a democracy. The ‘Submission’ of Michel Houellebecq: Interview Excerpts 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

By focusing on the vice presidency, the spare tire of democracy, it rendered the government small enough to drown in an acid bathtub. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

First, in 2008, after almost a decade of angry chauvinism, American democracy seemed to rediscover its purpose and elected Barack Obama. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

Todd Landman, professor of government and director of the institute for democracy and conflict resolution at the University of Essex, agreed. Disaster victims 'need books as well as food' 2012-11-28T09:00:04Z

That was something that people once believed, and I think that’s fallen away from architecture and from most social democracies and governments, and now maybe we’re coming back to it. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s its literary output was directed at South Korean democracy movements, then resisting their own military dictator, in the hope of kindling pro-North sympathies in the South. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z

The cover of your Sept. 16 issue asked whether democracy was at risk. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The assassination is framed as the death of democracy itself. An assassination 2,061 years in the making: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and the politics of theater 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

ATN runs Mencken's premature victory speech, where he promises a version of democracy that isn't transactional – ha – or unsullied by compromise with "welfare kings and queens." Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

The through lines have to do with the founding mythologies of the country — principles of democracy, free expression, rebellion and self-invention, rather than any specific silhouette or style or geography. What Is ‘American Fashion’ Now? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

But it has not been the new beginning that many had hoped — one of democracy and integration into the West. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Doing so means rejecting complacency about democracy and our system’s resilience, and “understanding exactly how we got here.” In ‘The Retreat of Western Liberalism,’ How Democracy Is Defeating Itself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

"It was a robust, if tumultuous, example of democracy in action," Olson writes. Book tells of fight over intervention 2013-03-25T15:52:08Z

I got a sense that he’s a guy that realizes that growth and progress in a democracy are slow. Marc Maron Discusses his Podcast Interview With President Obama 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

After all, the son said, “You fought for democracy.” From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Sullivan establishes his cultural authority and diagnoses our contemporary crisis by opening his piece with a dubious reading of Plato’s Republic, painting a picture of Plato’s views on “late stage democracy:” Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

"To be clear, Tucker should've been canceled because he destroyed our democracy." "The View" host Sunny Hostin elevates the beach read with Black stories at the forefront 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z

She muddles up representative and "participatory" democracy; and she entertains inordinately high standards of what – liberal, representative – democracy should entail, standards few countries attain. Mexico: Democracy Interrupted by Jo Tuckman - review 2012-06-29T21:55:08Z

Like, wow, this is maybe one of the greatest risks to our democracy we’ve encountered. Andrew Bird gets confessional, at last: “I really wanted to make a less whimsical, more visceral, grab-you-in-the-gut kind of record” 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Mr Fukuyama argues that the political institutions that allowed the United States to become a successful modern democracy are beginning to decay. The end of harmony 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

After the attacks, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called for "more democracy, more openness and greater political participation" -- a stark contrast to American politicians' response to 9/11. The trippiest martial arts movie ever? 2011-08-27T15:01:00Z

Calling it a “great embodiment” of states acting as “laboratories of democracy”, he continued: “I don’t agree with it, but that’s their right.” Marijuana businesses voice fear of a Republican president 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

It is an issue of how a person chooses to practise their faith, and in a democracy we cannot deny any human being that. Is France right to ban the burka in public? | Debate 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

By 1880, the inequalities of capitalism were so vast that they threatened democracy itself.” Review: ‘American Experience’ Traces President Garfield’s Assassination 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

It seemed to promise a new era of democracy and freedom – including women’s freedom to play football. 'You get used to the gunfire' – filming the Libyan women's football team 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

To make it about dress as celebration of democracy, taking an abstract ideal and rendering it easy to access and to put into action. Politics Is Back in Fashion 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

But in February the film focused on another big cause — democracy — when his lead subject, Mohamed Nasheed, stepped down as president after the country’s police and army turned against him. ?The Island President? and Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives 2012-03-28T12:00:00Z

It’s a genre that says that if you just have democracy and government acts as an umpire and doesn’t interfere in the market, factories and aerospace industries will somehow just spring out of nowhere. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

At that moment, we were faced with a vision of that former democracy of cars, so lauded in our childhood, now reconstituted as a pre-Reaganesque evil empire and doing terrible things in a distant land.  My teenage nuclear fantasies: Imagining apocalypse in America’s atomic age 2014-05-08T12:15:00Z

Concerned that the law would undermine the foundations of the democracy he is sworn to protect, Charles refuses to sign the bill. Review: Crown Jewel: King Charles III in London 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Same place our sense of egalitarian democracy did. The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

We may or may not be witnessing the collapse of American democracy, but we’re certainly getting a crash course in literary theory. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Philanthropy need not be incompatible with democracy, but it takes work to ensure that is the case. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Especially in my own country, but in the Middle East in general. As a secular person, I believe in democracy and individual freedom. There is a lot of persecution and oppression.” Osama Alomar Pursues His Literary Ambitions in Exile 2014-05-02T22:05:33Z

The planet’s elected leaders are also members of a royal family; and while they say they are committed to democracy they still live like swells. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Nuts and Revolts 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

And surely there is wisdom in insisting that the U.S. live up to its highest ideals of democracy. Can interfaith dialogue cure religious violence? 2013-05-01T21:23:00Z

And its performance, then and now, was about disparate individuals forging something together— e pluribus unum — in a participatory democracy in which each member’s choices affected all the others. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

“One of Whitman’s core beliefs was that the body was the basis of democracy,” Mr. Folsom, a professor of English at the University of Iowa, continued. Walt Whitman Promoted a Paleo Diet. Who Knew? 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Voters begin to believe that “if my party doesn’t get in power, then democracy is at risk.” Trump’s presidency has prompted a new, nationwide college course on why democracies collapse 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

News of the sale arrived not long after the 2016 election, and seemed symbolic of the changing fortunes of democracy in Germany and America. At Thomas Mann’s House, the German President Defends Democracy 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

She graduated from George Washington University and was a 2019 Nieman fellow focusing on the impact of journalism and technology on news consumption and democracy at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Gabriella Schwarz, Benjamin Wasserman 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

It was the principle of democracy he was fighting for, for justice and civil rights and all those things. Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Others disagree, arguing that an election is a step, however flawed, towards democracy. Burma activists say hands up for democracy 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

“I’m losing my belief in democracy, in human rights, in women’s rights,” she said, because she feels that Western countries aren’t doing enough to defend these things in Afghanistan. After escape, Afghan director mourns her ‘lost country’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

And everyone who cares about American democracy should be on guard. Perspective | Why I started saying ‘reality-based press’ in 2017, instead of ‘mainstream media’ 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

And what about D.C., land of democracy, where he never, not once, felt treated in a democratic manner? A Young Black Boy Looks at a Photograph of a Young Black Boy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“We want people to ask questions and contemplate why democracy matters, and what the threats are in our day.” Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

It is, to me, an almost perfect expression of literary democracy: Take a book, return a book, reading not as commodity exchange but exchange of identity, of ideas. Literary democracy in action: 'The Little Free Library Book' 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Throughout the 1990s, Haddock grew increasingly frustrated with a democracy that she thought was more responsive to money than to voters. Here's What Lawrence Lessig Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Other democracy reform ideas Levin and Greenberg plan to explore in the book, they said, include automatic voter registration, combating the gerrymandering of congressional districts and eliminating the electoral college. Dem activists eye a 2020 focus beyond ‘getting rid of Trump’ 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

“She inspires women and men of all ages to realize that a democracy thrives to the extent that it provides every citizen equal footing to achieve their dreams.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Now it’s vanishing, leaving our very democracy in peril. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s attacks on Sen. Tammy Duckworth are as disgusting as they are predictable 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

The coup reversed the country’s gradual return to democracy after five decades of military rule. Myanmar junta charges celebrities with promoting protests 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

Not to mention your commitment to celebrating the power of democracy. Bourgeois and Maurice's guide to surviving the Christmas party season 2010-12-17T11:25:28Z

They fought to protect democracy for future generations, but when those generations took them up on the offer by democratically helping themselves to whatever was on offer, it didn’t go over very well. “Mad Men”: Joan did the right thing 2012-05-29T22:12:00Z

China today is an authoritarian state and it’s catching up economically much more quickly than democracies like India. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

Among the first responders were writers offering dystopian fiction and apocalyptic nonfiction, all questioning the durability of democracy under stress. Why Intellectuals Support Dictators 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

“I was able to see something that maybe means a new way of democracy in Brazil,” she said. Music Review: Marisa Monte Performs at the Beacon Theater 2013-06-27T21:44:04Z

As the first Muslim elected to Congress, Ellison said people of Middle Eastern descent from across the country have urged him to support the Arab Spring and the democracy movements across the region. What it takes to be in Vogue 2012-06-11T14:58:00Z

“This is a fight between good and evil. This is a fight between democracy and authoritarianism.” When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

True statesmen shunned goals like democracy promotion and looked for areas of compromise and accommodation, however unsatisfying to the idealists. The Book That Shaped Foreign Policy for a Generation Has More to Say 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

A new research report from a leading journalism organization says President Trump’s attacks on the news media have endangered American democracy and imperiled press freedom in other countries. New study says Trump has ‘dangerously undermined truth’ with attacks on news media 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

We’ve been taught the history of a country that renders us incapable of understanding how we get an insurrection in the greatest democracy on Jan. 6. The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ warning on democracy 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Secondly, you wrote that “…the words Jewish and democracy when used together are mutually exclusive.” How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

The price of a democracy — whether one intends to save it or merely acquire a controlling interest — cannot be estimated easily. Did Mike Bloomberg waste $500 million running for president? We’re about to find out. 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

I mention countries such as Turkey, Poland and Hungary, where authoritarian leaders keep the formal trappings of democracy – there are still elections and opposition parties – but its substance is hollowed out. Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

“Our concern is that when half of Americans have some sort of doubt about the veracity of the news they consume, it’s going to be impossible for our democracy to function.” ‘Sobering’ report shows hardening attitudes against media 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

I've been passionate about the power of politics and the potential of democracy for essentially my entire life. "Voting is important but insufficient": Scott Warren on youth power in politics 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Near the beginning of the book Mr. Sanders recalls the “profound lesson about democracy and self-rule” he learned as a boy on the streets of Brooklyn. Blue States, Red Diapers, White Hair 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The “disruption” of the fountain-pen market provides a soothing escape from all the others: Amazon’s unnerving dominion, Facebook’s alleged tainting of democracy itself, and childhood’s fast fade into screens. Let the Fountain Pens Flow! 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

He also thought it needed a political subtext that would connect the 1975 film both to the nation's impending bicentennial and to the recent Watergate scandal, which he thought revealed the dysfunction of our democracy. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Not enough representatives, in Frank’s view, know the first thing about the role of legislating in a democracy. Story time: Barney Frank brings his wit and Washington wisdom to Harvard

"The big question for me is can Israel survive as a democracy and a Jewish state?" he said. AP Interview: Author rattles US Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T19:44:11Z

Preserving uncertainty means that democracy is inherently dynamic and fluid. Democracy Is for Losers (and Why That’s a Good Thing) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

“These guys set out to save democracy by undemocratic means,” he said. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Community spirit, and everyone mucking in, young and old, fat and thin, drunk and sober: this is joyful democracy. The 10 best paintings for winter cheer 2013-01-12T19:05:00Z

Helpfully, Moyo includes as an appendix a chart showing how 14 leading countries rank in terms of her goals for reforming democracy. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

We’d like to criticize everyone for their stages toward democracy but if you look at ours – we didn’t let women vote, we didn’t let blacks vote, we had slaves. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The great threat to American democracy isn’t “policy” but the pretense of normalcy. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Washington is the right setting for highlighting the connection between literacy and democracy, she added. The latest word on Planet Word: Downtown D.C.’s language museum is set to open in May 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

It is easy to say democracy is a sham and voters don't matter. Political adviser/historian tells why campaigns, voters matter 2012-06-14T20:42:03Z

It would interfere with the flattened image of democracy she wants to create. Will the digital age kill off art? 2013-07-02T15:36:28Z

In nonfiction, a wide array of subjects: threats to democracy, ancient crafts, strategy during the Vietnam War, Ezra Pound in confinement and the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee’s literary criticism. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In his new book, Jan-Werner Müller acknowledges the widespread fear that “democracy is in crisis” before pointing out that few people who aren’t political philosophers have given any sustained thought to what democracy actually is. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Hogarth and the political satirists who followed him in Georgian England surely helped to lay the foundations of real democracy with their irreverent popular art. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z

She has become a kind of prophet and exegete of American democracy, as devoted to our secular scriptures as to her Christian ones. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

His removal paved the way for Chile's return to democracy and more than two decades of economic prosperity. 'No' Oscar nomination boosts Chile's film industry 2013-01-12T03:31:06Z

They hurt society by distracting from the very real problems of corruption and decreasing genuine participation in democracy. How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

What might it tell us about the true nature of democracy and the reality of "equality"? Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

He said his politics were "based on principles like democracy, individuality, equality of opportunity, distrust of power and, above all else, freedom, including economic freedom". Frank Turner: 'I got 100 death threats a day' 2013-04-24T17:15:01Z

And now we face some very threatening actions taken by this president against our democracy. Hillary Clinton and America Ferrera on Pain and Progress (and Hiking) 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

The comedian then issued a warning, saying “democracy is being disintegrated” with Trump serving as Commander in Chief. Sacha Baron Cohen slams Twitter CEO for helping Donald Trump get elected president 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

"A free press is of course a cornerstone of democracy," Grant told a packed London court room. British tabloids out of control, inquiry told 2011-11-21T18:08:51Z

While the rest of the Arab world is at long last moving towards participatory democracy, a police state is emerging in Palestine with active western support. After Tunisia: Don't forget Palestine 2011-02-04T12:09:42Z

So it is appropriate that this new exhibition space operated by the foundation he created should be inaugurated by an exhibition extolling American democracy and running during the final weeks of the presidential election. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

Her instinct to condemn becomes wearisome, and she gives us only the vaguest prescriptions for the systems she wishes would replace market-driven democracy, or dams, or globalization. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

It takes on some big themes: democracy, decentralisation, corruption, inequality, the failings of the educational system, and radical Islam, as well as the ghosts of hundreds of thousands slaughtered as Suharto took power in 1965. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Is this the end of American democracy as we know it? "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

But the library, free and open, is already an exemplar of democracy at its healthiest and best, of society making its finest things available to all. Critic’s Notebook: Norman Foster’s Public Library Will Need Structural Magic 2013-01-29T23:35:04Z

The State Council, China's Cabinet, said the ads will promote an image of prosperity, democracy, openness, peace and harmony. Yao Ming, others film ads to boost China's image 2010-08-04T12:06:00Z

A second is restrictions on voting, because democracy is a good thing. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

Because if we were a true democracy, then we would only be talking about having a national holiday where everyone can vote. Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a mystery – and yet, midway through a year that has been marked by a deadly pandemic, massive protests and widespread anxiety about the future of American democracy, it seems like a fairly natural development. Fireworks proliferate across U.S., but why is unclear 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

“The fundamental question in ‘Julius Caesar’ is what do you do to protect a democracy when a demagogue is threatening the thing that you love?” he said in an interview. Perspective | The president opens his mouth daily, and the American theater bites back 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

With the Kremlin occupied by someone of true machiavellian stature, invading neighbouring countries, assassinating dissidents with arcane poisons, sapping the foundations of international democracy, Vladimir Putin has all boxes ticked on the malefactor’s charter. Back from the red – return of the Russian baddie 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Today, when the very threads of American democracy feel like they are unraveling, poking fun at the state of the world feels inadequate. How late-night political comedy needs to evolve: Be more subversive 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

It was meant to erode the foundations of democracy by undermining trust and calling into question what was a fact and what was not. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Some argue that the big questions in society should be left to the political process and that Supreme Court cases that reorient the law undermine democracy and support for the cause they advance. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

We really were a committee, in mostly a good way, very much a democracy. Buffalo Tom’s Bill Janovitz on Nirvana, “My So Called Life” and a new record 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Tasteless this campaign may be, but it's freedom, democracy and market forces in action. Thatcher Ding Dong! chart campaign is puerile – but the best protest available 2013-04-11T11:46:33Z

The suffragists in white knew it, the Hong Kong democracy activists in black knew it, and the yellow vests in France knew it. What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like a Mom’? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

More than a year on, with that proposition tested daily, Obama’s decision to make his last trip abroad to the birthplace of western democracy looks prescient. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

“I’m symbolic of the opportunities afforded to a person in a democracy,” he said. Andrew Yang and the Political Narratives of Asian-Americans 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

That seemingly benign piece of equipment – the hardware of American democracy – is, as several experts explain in HBO’s Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections, nothing more than an obsolete computer. Hack the vote: terrifying film shows how vulnerable US elections are 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

EDT 18:36 Again, this is proof that democracy simply does not work. Eurovision song contest 2016 – as it happened 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

The university belongs, like the church and the military, to the social institutions that are situated at a considerable distance from democracy and adhere to premodern power structures. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

“We wanted to talk to him about how investing in news is the best way to protect our democracy and our way of life,” Marx said. Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one’s buying it. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

“The less time we all spend playing pundit,” she says, “the healthier our democracy will be.” It’s not you, Nate. It’s us. (And maybe a little you.) 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

This is a classic symptom of Beltway myopia: mistaking the politicians for democracy. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z

Women are more likely to be found these days leading the biggest industrialized democracies, or serving as four-star officers in the United States military, than working as the music directors of major orchestras. Cracking a Glass Ceiling With the Maestro’s Baton 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Tucker Carlson, seen here struggling to make it through No-Nut November, criticized the voting process and called electronic voting machines a threat to democracy. On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dave Chappelle Mocks Kanye and Kyrie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

It is the founding voice of a democracy, perhaps also of all women who have been rendered speechless by the acts of men. The Rape of Lucrece – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-23T14:25:26Z

“Show me what democracy looks like!” they demanded of each other. Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Is the Jewish state a liberal democracy or an occupying force? Why Are American Jews Falling Out of Love With Israel? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

He was a sceptic in the proper sense of the word, before it was appropriated by xenophobes: sceptical about the lack of democracy that was so evident in the project of European integration. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

A stripped-down version of the organization still exists, fighting, say the founders, for the future of democracy. Analysis | Seven bleak takeaways from Showtime’s ‘The Lincoln Project’ miniseries 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Just before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, for example, Vice President Pence claimed that the civil rights leader’s “promise of democracy” speech was, in effect, an endorsement of the Trump wall. Perspective | How to use history to support just about any lunatic assertion 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Oksanen is convinced that, 23 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin's grip on power is a serious threat for Eastern European democracies. Sofi Oksanen bats for the Baltics at Frankfurt book fair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

So, if you don’t keep up that authority, you’re giving up one of the underpinnings that work themselves into our democracy. The Clean Queen Talks Quarantine 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

People keep forgetting that show business is not a democracy. ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

The final book ends with Pullman’s heroine, Lyra, unwittingly restaging the fall of man and setting out to create a “Republic of Heaven,” a principled democracy rather than a dictatorship under the authority of God. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

"To do so is a clear threat to democracy." Dolphin hunt film screenings cancelled in Tokyo 2010-06-05T05:36:00Z

Baron Cohen's film is described as "the heroic tale of a dictator who risked his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed". Sacha Baron Cohen criticised over 'negative stereotypes' of Arabs 2012-05-17T11:19:56Z

He was able to create the appearance of a democracy while basically Putin and his United Russia Party remained in control. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

If one lesson is that there’s more to life than politics, even in politicized times, another is that there is more to democracy than ideology. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

“It hit home that for a very long time ‘democracy’ only applied to certain people — white men.” She Was More Than Just the ‘Most Beautiful Suffragist’ 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Point being, the media as a whole, here and elsewhere, needs to stiffen its resolve to prevent hastening democracy's stampede toward midnight. How can the media earn back the trust of viewers? Stop playing by Trump's rules for coverage 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

There’s a lot of deadly serious stuff in here — about war and peace, justice and racism, democracy and order — and a fair bit of silliness as well, some of it intentional. ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Drawing on contemporary and historical materials, Alexander argues that this code centers around democracy. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z

Might the fashion establishment consider such democracy? Catwalkgenius.com, an Irish Web site that asks fashion fans to buy shares in up-and-coming designers, is all for crowdfunding but its designers keep creative control of their work. Special Report: The YouDesign Movement 2010-02-26T19:20:00Z

From one perspective, this is information that everyone in a democracy should have in order to make educated decisions about leadership and foreign policies. Art Review: ‘Adhocracy’ at the New Museum 2013-05-09T20:27:22Z

“That’s what we show. That’s why we have to prevent totalitarianism from happening in the first place. We have to defend our democracy and our rule of law.” Nuance Is Difficult When It Involves Nazis, a Museum Finds 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

At that time, the struggle for freedom, democracy, human rights were all classified as radical struggle or terrorism. The Spanish media impresario Jaume Roures branches out 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Friedman is a smart guy whose heart is in the right place; he really, really wants peace and democracy in the Middle East, the region he’s been writing about for many years. With “Cabs, Camels or ISIS,” Thomas Friedman officially becomes a parody of himself: Can’t a New York Times columnist do better than this? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s a fitting strategy for Chang and Cole’s stated purpose, which is to foster dialogues around notions of citizenship and democracy. An artists' look at citizenship and democracy in a world turned upside down 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

These two great books help explain the role of human rights and the law in democracies. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

He will no doubt be remembered as a top-drawer artist and one who, like his ambassador father, was a force for world democracy. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

She became an attorney who advocated working for democracy and human rights, giving particular attention to women and children. Nobel winner Shirin Ebadi to publish memoir with Random House 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Chow, known for directing the films “Ten Years” and “Revolution of our Times” about the city’s democracy movement, had held a private screening of his film “Beyond the Dream” last week. Top Hong Kong singer loses concert venue amid crackdown 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Whether in the Philippines, the UK or the United States, she’s committed first and foremost to the continuation of free democracy. A Thousand Cuts: inside a chilling documentary on Maria Ressa 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

He noted that “demos” is also the basis for the word democracy. Dictionary.com picks ‘pandemic’ as its 2020 word of the year 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

During the previous administration it made our fears about democracy's slide into right-wing fascism real, giving that anxiety red robes and wings. Hulu's tiresome "Handmaid's Tale" should learn from the sins of "Planet of the Apes" 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

There's a section in your book that was really powerful where you describe how your father never abandoned his belief in democracy, never abandoned his belief in the good of America. Takei discusses new book, Trump's "evil" 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

But Musk's concept of what constitutes democracy is way off of what it is by definition, hence this classic "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" move. "What a sad, muddled place this has become": The madness of Twitter's blue checkpocalypse 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Somewhat surprisingly, Mann placed literature firmly in the camp of democracy and civilization. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

But China is not a democracy, and its economic leverage over Hollywood allows its leaders to subject American movies to an unprecedented process of ideological filtration. Hollywood Came to China; It Was Epic. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

In the continuing battle between Mall preservationists and those who most want to preserve its role as the central gathering place of American democracy, call this one a draw. Agreement keeps Folklife Festival on the Mall for next five years

“Can’t Nobody Stop Us,” the second track, is about democracy in America. The New Concept Album Is a Podcast 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

If there’s one lesson to be learned from Alien’s story, it is this: As Russian hackers challenge democracies and criminal attacks turn our personal data into commodities, we cannot turn to technology to save us. Hacker for Hire 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Public faith is more fragile than we thought, and it can be destroyed by cynical demagogy — not just in dictatorships, but in democracies too. The Truth Is Hard. But for a New York Times Lawyer, Defending It Is Fun. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Vibrant democracies must be ever alert to history, always seeking to revise it closer to the demonstrable truth of the past. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

“And it’s clearly not great when the best thing you can say about your representative democracy is hey, at least black people got above three-fifths this time,” Oliver joked. John Oliver on Amy Coney Barrett's likely confirmation: 'It's going to hurt for a long time' 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

For decades, it was assumed that democracy, with its free and fair elections, and liberalism, with its broad protections for civil liberties and individual rights, went hand in hand. How Endangered Is American Democracy? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Agents of The Cultures are on a mission to spread democracy, secularism and social justice throughout the universe. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z

It's one of the most important documents in the history of democracy. Pocket Constitution becomes bestseller after Khizr Khan's convention speech 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

A poster on the wall today announces that “printer’s ink is the greatest explosive”, while another reminds us that “democracy is not a spectator sport”. San Francisco, 50 years on from the Summer of Love 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

But doesn't the "writer's imagination" also conflict with the "imagination of the state" in a liberal capitalist democracy? Mo Yan, Salman Rushdie and censorship 2012-12-13T13:30:04Z

For generations to come those societies will have stories passed down from generation to generation, about the time when the people rose up against tyranny, and claimed their democracy. My friend the Iraqi 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I think that’s a better model for democracy: they’ll keep up the appearance of democracy, but their leader becomes more and more autocratic.” Michael Moore: 'We have the power to crush Trump' 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

I studied mass movements in Manchester and I was really inspired by how people campaigned for democracy in the past. Will anyone vote for AV in the electoral reform referendum? 2011-04-08T23:09:12Z

These criticisms might contribute to a fair, if depressing, analysis of the state of our democracy, but you have to wonder about the rather bleak view of theatre they present. Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z

“In some ways, democracy is a fiction that we’re trying to realize,” Taylor said. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Politicians who are willing to bring down democracy to appease a cult leader? Perspective | We must stop calling Trump’s enablers ‘conservative.’ They are the radical right. 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z

Some reckon he bulldozed his party’s internal democracy. A difficult truth 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

A lucrative secondary market would arise in educational theme parks dedicated to potential state systems: democracy, monarchy, aristocracy and outright tyranny. Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z

We took an evil king and sent him away, as a democracy. What everyone gets wrong about Hunter S. Thompson 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

At the Harvard Art Museums this fall, he plans to stage a debate with two replicas of a Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington and projections of students exploring the meaning of democracy today. A Monument Man Gives Memorials New Stories to Tell 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

I saw people protesting for justice, freedom, democracy, and the Shabiha militia, security forces and army responding by killing protesters, disfiguring their corpses, laying siege to whole towns. The Syrian revolution has changed me as a writer 2013-05-03T09:00:02Z

The French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that the ancient Greeks saw it as integral to democracy: self-care was a necessary part of care for others. Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Still, those ideas — about the betrayals inherent in love, democracy and musicals themselves — are too exciting and important to dismiss by quibbling them to death. Review: In the Musical ‘Soft Power,’ China Whistles the Tune 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

It is time to wake up and repudiate the notion that capitalism and democracy are the same thing. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

It was mostly about needless cruelty, proving that not only democracy dies at this level of darkness; so do TV shows. Review | What’s left to say about the end of ‘House of Cards,’ besides good riddance? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Zulu's protagonist is a Zulu by the name of Ali Neuman, a survivor of inter-tribal brutality when Xhosas and Zulus were fighting for dominance as South Africa moved towards democracy. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

Nonetheless, Mexico has become a robust democracy with a robust press and an active legislature. “We should be working more with the Mexicans”: Former “border czar” shares real facts about immigration 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

It was a short-lived heyday of liberalism and representative democracy, flourishing smack between two periods of staunch authoritarianism: bookended by the post-unification German Empire on one side, and Nazi Germany on the other. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

We like to think of ourselves as a country that promotes liberalism and democracy. David Mitchell and Robert Webb: fear and loathing in Croydon 2012-11-18T19:00:01Z

"In Fox News, Murdoch created a uniquely destructive force in American democracy and public life, one that ushered in an era of division where racist and post-truth politics thrive." Rupert Murdoch's retirement won't break Fox News — yet 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z

"But I categorically disagree with those who say that there is no democracy in Russia; that authoritarian traditions still rule." The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

We should be asking ourselves whether our democracy can endure many more seasons of this. The Michael Cohen Show: Where GOP politicians angle to become Trump's new co-stars 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

This is about the limits of democracy today and unless you invest enough in education and given people the right info and access to truth, it might give the wrong results. "It is always the other who is guilty, never us": Movie "R.M.N." examines what drives xenophobia 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Democrats countered that the agency is there to serve democracy, not the investment community. DirecTV and AT&T make case for deal. Kristen Wiig to try directing. 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Advocates for racial justice are working tirelessly to slow our democracy's slide into oblivion, if only we'd heed what they have to say. Calling out the saddest sacks of 2021, a reckoning by Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's ... friends 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

That meant lots of odes to fast girls and faster cars, but ultimately, Berry was teaching America’s postwar babies how to best live in a democracy. Perspective | Chuck Berry helped build rock-and-roll. Then he took it for a ride. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

It’s the kind performed in democracies by digital marketers, search engines and social networks, often with our cooperation. Art Review: ?NineteenEightyFour,? All Eyes, at Austrian Forum 2010-08-19T21:48:00Z

But there’s an irrepressible optimism to this guilty-pleasure watch; the town-hall meetings, in which the kids earnestly debate the benefits of participatory democracy, gun restriction, and reproductive rights, would thrill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “The Society,” Reviewed: A Teen Dystopia, but with, Like, Socialism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yes, there are a lot of stupid acts in Eurovision – but no one said democracy was easy! Eurovision: why Americans can't afford to miss out on this cultural spectacular 2013-05-17T12:49:00Z

He edits speeches, organizes seminars about democracy, and distracts attention from the money his friends are laundering. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Our leading export is this myth of democracy we have. U.S. Pledge to Renew Cuba Ties Gets Hopeful Reaction From 'Buena Vista Social Club' Star 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Or dive farther back in history, to the upheavals that helped create French, English and American democracy, in Mike Rapport’s “Unruly City.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Societies in democracies need to suffer a lot to understand it is no joke. "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

In class, we read things like Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and talked about the way the “language of television” had ruined culture, democracy, and a few other things I no longer remember. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

“How stable and open to discussion German democracy really is has not yet been put to the test in a truly existential crisis,” Jähner writes. Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

“The facts and arguments she communicates should be studied by anyone interested in the fate of democracy,” he noted, “in Brazil or anywhere else.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Edge of Democracy’ and ‘Riviera’ 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

“Everything’s fine,” he told them, “but democracy can be sloppy sometimes.” Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

The words Jewish and democracy when used together are mutually exclusive. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

A Nasty Boy is an example of the flourishing media scene and business culture in Nigeria, which is Africa’s biggest democracy. Nigerian fashion magazine stirs debate about men in skirts 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“How does Collier intend to repair the bonds of affection in the rich democracies? ‘ 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

It was during the Cold War that it hardened into a belief of the superiority of America’s brand of free-market democracy, which would be protected by projecting American power around the world. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

In Sunday’s episode of “Succession,” a TV network sold out democracy. In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

It is now merely a colonial outpost of the entertainment industry, which levels culture not in the interests of democracy, education or access, but with an unthinking, reflexive animus to anything resistant to commercial exploitation. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In Italy’s early postwar years especially, she catalyzed the desires of an orphan nation, a newborn democracy looking for a mother. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

The Southern states showed themselves to be profoundly hostile to democracy and civil equality, as any system based on white supremacy has to be. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

But his improbable rise would not improve her view of human intelligence considered as a whole, and might lead her to downgrade her almost-hopeful view of the possibilities of American democracy. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

“If we don’t learn the lessons,” Dean warned, “democracy’s in trouble.” John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

On her last day in the country, she passionately extolled democracy and women’s empowerment at a speech before 1,300 college students, who are the first generation to be born free of apartheid. When Jill Biden went to Africa, her comment about 2024 stole all the attention 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

But this was 2020, a year of civil rights uprisings, a mismanaged pandemic and an election in which the stakes were representative democracy itself. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Whatever one’s feelings about Dubya, this particular decapitation was in keeping with neither the spirit of democracy nor continuity. Does HBO have a Tea Party problem? 2012-07-03T17:20:00Z

Efficiency considerations aside, the real problem with championing marketized models in education and other areas is the damage it does to democracy. When public schools answer to markets 2012-07-29T18:00:00Z

It’s apt, then, that “Socrates” is the centerpiece of the Onassis Festival, a program of panels and performances at the Public that this year is focused on democracy. Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

"I think the Czechs had that recent memory of democracy, before the war," reflects Woodhead. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z

Of course Herman Melville’s classic novel, published in 1851, isn’t about this latest turn in American democracy. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

During the festival, People in Need presents the annual Homo Homini Award to individuals in recognition of their dedication to the promotion of human rights, democracy and nonviolent solutions to political conflicts. In Transit: At Prague Festival, Movies With a Conscience 2011-03-04T11:00:14Z

Orwell was writing at a time when governments, whether the totalitarian dictatorships of Russia and China, or the democracies of western Europe and America, ruled with near absolute power. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z

Giuliani is a mess, and if he weren't actively involved in destroying democracy, that would make him a terrific reality show candidate. "The Masked Singer" may not normalize Rudy Giuliani, but its a crime to even try to make him cuddly 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

Some "26 Years" donors said they felt indebted to Gwangju citizens who risked their lives for democracy. Crowdfunding rescues provocative S.Korean film 2012-10-01T12:59:17Z

America has had an extraordinary struggle with racism, underscored so poignantly by the degree to which we seek to stand as a symbol of democracy and human rights. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z

Is democracy a classic virtue or just a mistake we stick to, a happy Rodgers tune to ward off fear? Review: In the Musical ‘Soft Power,’ China Whistles the Tune 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Democratic Erosion provides a sort of postmortem of democracy in nations where it died — and sometimes was revived. Trump’s presidency has prompted a new, nationwide college course on why democracies collapse 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Right now, across the world, democracy is in crisis.” 'Laughter is the great unifier' – behind the incredible life of Molly Ivins 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

An unlikely, utterly unique thing, built, as Barbato says, "to celebrate the core and essence of democracy." Is the Statue of Liberty the world's largest drag queen? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chomsky, already the subject of several documentaries, focuses here on an election-season theme: financial inequality in America and what he calls its corrosive effect on democracy. Review: Noam Chomsky Focuses on Financial Inequality in ‘Requiem for the American Dream’ 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

We are lots of writers gathering together and fighting for democracy. Writers campaign for Israel-Palestine peace 2012-10-10T15:19:07Z

“A decade ago, I wrote the first draft of a novel that explored an intriguing aspect of American democracy — the lifetime appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Abrams said in a statement. Stacey Abrams novel ‘While Justice Sleeps’ coming May 25 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Williams, in effect, transforms a soliloquy into a democracy. This Is What Gentrification in Brooklyn Sounds Like 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

A few months ago Smith's announced casting was met with a relatively muted backlash, but probably because the vilest trolls are busy plotting the overthrow of democracy. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

“Both encourage visitors to reflect on the beginning of the ideas of democracy.” Will U.S. Withdrawal from Unesco Affect Heritage Sites? 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

How does Collier intend to repair the bonds of affection in the rich democracies? Saving Local Communities in a Globalized World 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

The Baltimore dedication, he said, was a great day ''for art, the human mind and democracy.'' Baltimore Honors Late Rocker Frank Zappa With Bust 2010-09-19T22:29:00Z

Charles's endeavours are a serious attempt to do things differently to the way they are usually done in capitalist democracy. Prince Charles is not a dabbler – he's deeply committed. But he's naive 2013-05-02T14:30:02Z

“Is America a banana republic disguised as a democracy?” ‘Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord’ Review: Our Sewing Superhero 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

There are a few digs at tonight's unique location, "the seat, the very birthplace, of hypocrisy – I mean, democracy," as Dembina calls it. Ivor Dembina | Comedy review 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z

Today’s democracy of technology would, of course, conspire to put a fast and brutal end to the tantalizing demi-invisibility that Garbo sustained so well. Among Celebrities, Mystery?s Not Fashionable 2010-07-16T20:42:00Z

She was a table-pounding idealist and human rights advocate, and believed in using American power to protect innocent civilians and advance democracy. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The end of democracy was far from their minds. My grandfather was a Nazi. Our family's story of complicity shows where the road to extremism leads 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Civil rights have to be defended, and democracy has to be defended. I was always aware of that,” he said. Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong: reviving the draft isn’t the solution; reviving democracy is. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

But democracy has to think a bit harder about the dissemination of knowledge. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

It is a searing, overdrawn critique of contemporary Indian democracy. Film: India?s Epic Poems, Resonating in Modern Lives 2010-07-04T05:11:00Z

Taylor speaks like he writes—patiently, at length—and, at the S.S.R.C., he explained, step by step, how we find democracy meaningful. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

In “The Edge of Democracy,” 36-year-old filmmaker Petra Costa uses her personal story to argue that Brazil’s democracy is at risk after the abrupt end to governments led by the leftist Workers’ Party. Brazil documentary gets Oscar nomination, exposes division 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

That, to me, is as much of a game-changer as whether or not we run a democracy program. The former head of USAID on the consequences of war and famine 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Bourgeois democracy divides us into winners and losers. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

The fists and flagpoles of the riot itself presented an unlimited buffet of sad ironies to choose from, but the trashing of democracy’s cradle is what will haunt the history of this moment. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

The mostly peaceful demonstrations in Tangier and Marrakesh called for remedies that would restrict the king’s authority and create a more legitimate democracy: a constitutional monarchy, like Britain’s, with a parliament with teeth. T Magazine: The Last Casbah 2011-05-20T14:00:57Z

They are no more mutually exclusive that are the words Christian and democracy and Christian Democrats remains major political parties in both Italy and Germany. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

They spoke with the ease and deft mutual flattery of friends, touching on democracy and education, their Midwestern roots and love of literature. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

“We are fighting not only for the future of the press but also the preservation of our democracy,” said Doug Reynolds, the company’s managing partner, in a statement last week. Perspective | These local newspapers say Facebook and Google are killing them. Now they’re fighting back. 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Who is included, in theory and practice, in the ongoing experiment of American democracy? 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The intention may have been to emphasize the sort of “messy” participatory democracy favored by Occupy, Anonymous, and other emergent political forces loosely affiliated with WikiLeaks and influenced by anarchist political theory. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z

The real revolution was not a colonial nation's revolt against the restrictive laws and occupying forces of a far-off monarchy but the desire to replace it with a democracy. 'Sons of Liberty' takes a few too many liberties on History 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Williams described the case that House managers were building as chilling and an important exercise in democracy. Fox abruptly cuts off impeachment manager during testimony 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

“Uruguay was a dictatorship when I was born. . . . The democracy came in 1984, and sometimes I don’t know if Americans realize how fragile that is.” Gabriela Hearst is dressing women for a new era of political power 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

It’s not so much docu-fiction as a fantasia on power, democracy and populism. Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play ‘The 47th’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

He “taught me the power of American democracy — the people’s democracy,” Takei writes, even if human fallibility can at times mar American ideals. Review | George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this. 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Moyers, he added, helps in “enlightening our democracy” — a Carnegie mission — by putting “before our nation questions that we should discuss.” Television: Bill Moyers Returns to TV, but Not With PBS 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z

To understand democracy, you need comfortable access to its various forms and institutions. Meleko Mokgosi Wants You to See the Politics of Everyday Life 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

There, the strong base of support for social democracy and for centralized and relatively egalitarian urban planning has most successfully weathered attacks from New Right politicians, anti-immigrant racists, and international financial speculators. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

"What you're seeing in Hungary is not an autocracy, but it's a slide away from democracy and that's the dangerous place to be. " Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Since then, the country has embarked on a fragile transition to democracy, ending years of theocratic rule that limited artists’ freedoms. A Sudan in transition presents first-ever film for Oscars 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

Initially they thought they would feature some of the protest signs in the exhibition on American democracy, which has a rotating roster of protest posters from various events. The debris of Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now belongs to history 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

According to Worthen, the phrase is “linguistic hedging” that evades the civilized conflict on which democracy is premised. Talking while female: an expert guide to the things you definitely should not say 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a subject of endless debate among historians and economists. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Q: How are the uprisings in the Middle East affecting your own country's democracy? At On the Boards, art talks back to politics 2012-01-12T19:51:07Z

There is little, for instance, about the building’s architecture and evolving role in Madrid as the city added other great museums such as the Reina Sofía and Thyssen-Bornemisza after Spain’s return to democracy. The Prado Museum, Spain’s Cultural Jewel, Turns 200 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The happy conjunction of neo-liberal economics with social democracy on which New Labour was founded is now history. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z

The EU has damaged its claim to be a guardian of democracy against populist extremists by repeatedly ignoring referendums in which voters rejected new treaties. A perfectly timed book on populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

I would hope that Egyptians, or all the other democracy movements in the Middle East, would find climate change as a track that they have to address. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

If we want to hear music on the Fourth of July that is actually about liberty and democracy, we should play “La Marseillaise,” not the “1812 Overture.” What Do We Love About “War and Peace”? 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

“We play a role in the democracy and we shouldn’t be under attack by people who should be enforcing the laws of society.” Journalists wage legal fights after facing protest attacks 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

She referred to the leaks as “the phlegm of democracy” and in summary, deep state “can be whatever the person in power wants it to be”. Late-night TV roundup: 'Trump's not going down for his mistakes' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

According to a recent NBC poll, “threats to democracy” top the list of public concerns — hardly surprising in the wake of the summer’s Jan. 6 hearings and other events. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Better Angels tries to repair democracy with more of an air of formality, holding workshops to connect rival voters. Hi Democrat, I’m a Republican, let’s not hate each other: The quixotic movement to get opposing voters to talk 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

“There’s been a crime committed here,” Zimmerman says, “and it’s a crime which has robbed people of their confidence in our democracy and our political system.” He lost to George Santos. Now he’s trying to make up for it. 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

It is Peer's descriptions of the systematic torture by India of its Kashmiri citizens that reflect most badly on the world's largest democracy. Curfewed Night 2010-06-19T23:10:00Z

The fourth estate exists to protect our democracy from the slide into autocracy, and it is high time they start performing that function. The news media helped Trump win in 2016. Here's what needs to change for 2020 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

A cleareyed reading of the novel, however, suggests that his view of democracy has much in common with that of Machiavelli, Sidney, Emerson and Truman. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

His charisma and connection to the people make him an excellent anchor for the film, reflecting and representing Zimbabwe’s decades-long struggle for a fair democracy. ‘President’ Review: Zimbabwe’s Struggle for Democracy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The dictionary defines 'democracy sausage' as "a barbecued sausage served on a slice of bread, bought at a polling booth sausage sizzle on election day". 'Democracy sausage' wins Australia's word of the year 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

What you're seeing in Hungary is not an autocracy, but it's a slide away from democracy and that's the dangerous place to be. Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

“It’s another example of our democracy being threatened,” the actor Robert Redford, the president and founder of the Sundance Institute, which helps filmmakers, said in a telephone interview. Arts Groups Draft Battle Plans as Trump Funding Cuts Loom 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

It’s the slow death of purposeless walking as symptom of the slow death of democracy, of the human. Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Obama didn’t rage against his enemies or attack the pillars of our democracy. Perspective | Barack Obama’s summer reading list is everything we need right now 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

"I am very conscious of being in a country with a true democracy of opinion," he told a press conference in Tel Aviv. Ian McEwan praises Israel before book award 2011-02-18T14:24:34Z

In a recent essay about teaching the American Revolution, Jane Kamensky, a professor of history at Harvard, argued that historians need to do more to shore up “our fragile democracy.” The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

“As you may have noticed,” he said, “the next American president and I could not be more different. But American democracy is bigger than any one person.” Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

“The greatest threat to our democracy right now is clearly whatever tweet the president has planned for Cinco de Mayo this year,” he said. John Oliver: 'Literally everything about gerrymandering is stupid and wrong' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

In response, it will take require a united front of black and brown and white folks to save the United States from Donald Trump and the Republican Party's fascist and authoritarian campaign against democracy. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

It was originally a radical idea, used by politicians such as Lloyd George to argue that the British should learn from their young transatlantic cousins and adopt full democracy. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z

Trump is using that energy as a perverse mandate to continue his assault on American democracy and the rule of law. Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

"He saw the book not just as a portrait gallery, but as a distillation of the public history of the American democracy," Schlesinger, who died in 2007, wrote in the introduction to the 1964 edition. Historians question White House presidential bios 2011-04-05T13:26:27Z

Those who lament the decline of democracy should forget neither the agents of its destruction nor their purpose: to preserve their power. The Kavanaugh hearings: Angry white men get to be righteous; angry women “a mob” 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Ready-to-wear — fashion’s first step toward democracy — was in its infancy, but it was clearly the future. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Putin was already deeply hostile toward the Obama administration, and Hillary Clinton in particular, for having given verbal support to pro—democracy protests in Moscow. Rachel Maddow Takes On the Oil Industry 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Switzerland’s grassroots democracy allows any Swiss citizen to object to any project proposed anywhere in the country, obliging the developer to respond. Gstaad's New Luxe: The $337 Million Hotel Alpina Gstaad 2013-09-05T13:04:00Z

The concepts it excludes from its analysis – solidarity, collective action, bottom-up democracy – are the ones most essential to the project of emancipating women as a class. Language policing and Twitter wars: why modern feminism is failing us (again) 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

He understood democracy but he didn’t understand the language to access it. Ilhan Omar meets Tan Dhesi: ‘We helped to break a glass ceiling' 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

Its intention is less to commemorate a bygone tragedy than to illuminate the unfinished business of justice and the endlessness of the struggle for democracy. At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

“It can be frustrating, this business of democracy,” he said then, understating the matter drastically. Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Yet the notion that democracy involves compromises resonates today. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

What distinguishes Iranian monarchy and republic, he argues, are not so much the black banners and veils that fascinate and repel the west but old-fashioned parliamentary democracy. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z

What’s more, the economic record of the totalitarian countries in the 30s was far superior to that of the liberal democracies. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z

"It reminds me of the people in the States and elsewhere who helped us in our cause for democracy," she said. Aung San Suu Kyi picks Beatles and Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs 2013-01-27T14:12:00Z

“This is a moment where we are at a crisis point in our democracy,” said Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of NAACP. “A crisis point in our democracy”: Why progressive leaders and thousands of others will risk arrest this week 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

"The problem for a democracy is how to get rid of the pitiful vanities of partisan talk and voting and the corruption of party machines without silencing opposition criticism," he muses. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z

“But capitalism and markets should be the slave of democracy and not the opposite.” Thomas Piketty Tours U.S. for His New Book 2014-04-18T21:37:26Z

“Can I tell you, the things that Joe has done and what we’re fighting for in our democracy, I will work 24/7 to keep our democracy strong.” When Jill Biden went to Africa, her comment about 2024 stole all the attention 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

“We’re seeing the challenges to democracy more and more clearly, and it’s all the more reason we have to treasure it,” Clive Gillinson, Carnegie’s executive and artistic director, said in an interview. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Nearly 25 percent of the 9,000 U.S. newspapers that were published 15 years ago are gone, leaving behind a vast news desert and signs of a weakened democracy. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“I was attracted to words like liberation, emancipation, equality, revolution, socialism. Any other word would get my pulse going more than democracy.” ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a democracy of ideas and we all have access to it to put our ideas out there. Q&A: DWTS Judge Carrie-Ann Inaba Thinks the Winner Will Be… 2013-05-16T09:45:30Z

In interwar Italy liberal governments dithered while the country slid into chaos and the two largest parties, the Socialists and Christian Democrats, were more interested in defending the interests of their particular constituencies than democracy. Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

He said this lack of trust in web reviews was “a huge problem for the democracy of the web”. Twitter campaign takes aim at fake restaurant reviews on TripAdvisor 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

In countries around the world today, things have been happening that are starting to undermine democracy. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Voter suppression, she said, “can eviscerate democracy for everyone.” For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

There has been an explosion of work on Native Americans and enslaved people, who are seen as crucially important in shaping American democracy. Clash of the Historians: Paper on Andrew Jackson and Trump Causes Turmoil 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The series — in recent years a victim of its talent-show component taking a backseat to its judges’ celebrity — was at its best all about democracy. Review: The Finale of 'American Idol' Was a Glorious Mess 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

For Italian historians, this was a glorious chapter in their country’s history, a heroic national struggle, brilliantly planned and executed, leading to the creation of a liberal democracy. Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

There’s the recent egalitarian streak in pop criticism — the death of nongeneralists — even if this specific embrace of Mr. West is merely a case of exceptionalism masking as democracy. Critic?s Notebook: An Album and Its Buzz 2011-01-02T23:09:11Z

Your essay for New York, calling Donald Trump’s rise a sign of “the fragility of our way of life and the threat late-stage democracy is beginning to pose to itself,” stirred a lot of conversation. Andrew Sullivan on His Brief Return to the Online Political Fray 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But the city of about 7 million is finally letting loose and exploring its funkier side, bolstered by a flourishing democracy, increased prosperity and stronger ties with the world beyond its borders. A savvier Santiago puts itself on travel map 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

But Guthrie’s idealistic vision of the U.S. is a call to our nation’s founding principles of equality and democracy. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

He hardly considered Labour party policy on Spain as policy at all, vacillating as it did between supporting ‘democracy’ on the one hand and the ‘Republic’ on the other: both positions entirely rhetorical. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

And until we close it, we will never see genuine multiracial democracy in this country, and we will never see genuine racial equality in this country. “Democracy in Black”: A conversation about race in America with Eddie Glaude Jr. 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

“A fighting press is the red, beating heart of democracy,” the newsman declares, near the end of his show. Perspective | Listen in as Dan Rather anchors the story of his own highly theatrical life 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

President Kennedy understood the crucial role of a vigorous free press in a democracy and liked to point out the absence of journalistic freedom in the Soviet Union. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Alamy Two hundred years ago the world's "oldest democracy", as Margaret Thatcher liked to call it, was staggeringly undemocratic. Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser – review 2013-05-03T07:00:17Z

I believe these times will pass and Iranians will earn the democracy they deserve. Hossein Khosrojerdi's first U.S. solo show opens at Tara Gallery 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

But this year he says the real impetus of the event is to keep freedom of speech high on the agenda in the movement towards democracy. New dawn 2011-04-06T09:24:25Z

It’s a show about class differences that panders to contemporary notions of democracy and equality. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z

And yet he was able to teach us about American democracy, of people's democracy. Takei discusses new book, Trump's "evil" 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

In Smart America’s families, passing achievement from one generation to the next is an obsession, and democracy is an afterthought. Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

And two of the anniversary’s most striking documentaries present Sept. 11 as an event that struck at America’s democracy and even its soul. Is 9/11 a Day, or Is It an Era? 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

In 2020, he co-wrote a book that listed four key threats to democracy: political polarization, growing executive power, high and rising economic inequality, and racial and ethnic conflict over who belongs in a society. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Each day a cross section of the populace votes on civic questions and proposed regulations — the polls, not the pols, guarantee a kind of pure democracy. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

"But really, there is a lack of democracy, that's the main point." Cannes films eye "robbery" behind banking crisis 2010-05-19T08:27:00Z

How could the grandest of all democracies have elected a man like him? 'You made this bed, America!' How House of Cards turned the tables on us 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

A telling anecdote has her conducting a discussion with a group of university graduates in 2018, in which she elected to talk not about the Rohingya, or the peace process, or democracy, but about novels. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The initial proposal for The Post’s new slogan was “In the dark, democracy trips over the sleeping cat of tyranny and bangs its shin painfully on the bedpost of complacency.” Style Invitational Week 1272: The hex files — think up creative curses 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Washington, D.C., is the capital of American power, but the small town of Selma, Alabama, is the capital of American democracy. “America’s Third World”: The marchers have gone, but Selma is still mired in poverty 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Dance isn’t a democracy, and Ms. Mearns, a native of South Carolina, is one of its casually spellbinding aristocrats. A Father-Daughter Pas de Deux 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Co-host Joy Behar wondered if the same Americans "obsessed" with the so-called "war" on Christmas were equally concerned about "the war on the press, the war on immigrants, the war on our democracy." Meghan McCain has already had a meltdown about the alleged “war on Christmas,” and it is only... 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

“We won’t defeat terrorists by ripping up our basic rights and our democracy,” he said Wednesday. After terrorist attacks, Britain prepares to vote on its political leadership 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, this was democracy, happening in public, laying bare all the sordid truths we wish we knew, but don’t, and won’t, and would probably forget anyway. Russia is messing with us, and so is Congress 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

But he noted that many people, frustrated by representative democracy, are drawn closer to authoritarianism. Murakami plays antiwar songs on radio to protest Ukraine war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Buy from Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk The culture editor of the Danish newspaper that published cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 offers a personal account of the ensuing controversy and what it means for democracy. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

In her newly astute, mature voice Marie engages in some testy discussions with her captors about the promises of democracy and the tendency for power to become concentrated even in the more liberal-minded regimes. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z

But there is the other side – this struggle for democracy which was part of his life. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

Well, because the democracy is built on their ability to serve as a check on government power. Perspective | Could reporters be hunted down if Trump goes after leakers? 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

But for actor Christopher Jackson — the original George Washington in Broadway’s “Hamilton” — performing in a virtual “ball” is a way of participating in an essential rite of American democracy. From Gaga to Garth, Miranda to Moreno: Celebs join inaugural 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

“It is the failure of those charged with preserving and protecting democracy.” Donald Trump may be the best thing that ever happened to George W. Bush 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Others defended Jefferson, citing his role as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the country's founding fathers who laid the groundwork for democracy.  Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a one-piece, lightweight cotton, shorts-and-button-down-shirt outfit designed for men, and the internet took a break from fighting over the future of democracy to scrap over whether it is awesome or disgusting. Let the wild romp-us begin! What have men in suits done for us lately? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

After World War II, Colonial Williamsburg became a patriotic shrine and “symbol of democracy in the troubled world,” as a top executive put it. Building a Better Colonial Williamsburg 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Every time that Trump rages about “fake news,” people are compelled to respond with some form of, “No, actually, reporting is real, and facts are important and essential to the functioning of democracy.” This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Is this new media undermining democracy – or grassroots democracy leading change? Social networking expert Harold Thimbleby on LOL (Lots of Love) 2011-02-13T22:15:01Z

Taylor, on the other hand, believes “in a democracy of readers who are not being told what they have to like,” he told me over the phone. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Confined to her house by banning orders, she died in 1980 without ever seeing the democracy she’d given her liberty for. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z

For months the Labyrinth board has been considering new leadership structures for the company, which long tried to operate like a democracy and had its inevitable share of rivalries and grievances. Labyrinth Theater Is Said to Seek New Leaders 2013-02-04T23:50:44Z

Social democracies—of the kind that exist in Scandinavia, for instance—have nationalized large parts of their countries’ economies, but not all. Blue States, Red Diapers, White Hair 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

At the forum, students questioned candidates in that year’s D.C. mayoral race on topics including gun violence and gentrification — and Henriquez saw democracy at work. This 19-year-old wants to become the D.C. Council’s first Latino member 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Whether democracy can be saved by vigilantes, a deus ex machina mogul and the Rock is a question for the finale. How ‘Atlanta’ and ‘The Good Fight’ Chose Chaos 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

All democracy leaders, all people who want to fight for freedom and justice, must fight for climate as well. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

What better time for what Dionne calls his “articles of conciliation” to unite the “coalition for dignity, decency, democracy and fairness”? E.J. Dionne Jr.’s Lost Hope for the Republican Party 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

“The continuing popularity of ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is a reminder,” he said via email, “of the threat to democracy posed by those with power who proclaim ‘alternative facts’ and deny objective truths. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

A singer and musician who entertained generations of Sri Lankans with captivating songs, but won their minds and hearts with his outspoken comments against social injustice, corruption, racism and suppression of democracy. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

And as Musk reminded us in this conversation he's content to pass the cost along to the people trying to live safely in those democracies. Elon Musk and "Tucker Carlson Tonight": A distracting match made in misinformation paradise 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

There are worrying parallels: Although the situation is not nearly as dire as the interwar period, Western democracy currently faces significant challenges. Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

But unlike many conductors his preparation is never a barrier to the fluidity and democracy of ideas in a rehearsal. Music: Steven Schick Brings ?Nine Rivers? to New York 2011-09-10T00:33:17Z

In these three countries, an outward-facing practice of “contemporary art” marched in step with local reform movements, engaged with free speech, economic fairness and multiparty democracy. Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

Perhaps our democracy’s built-in — and growing — flaws are intractable in nature. Can Teenagers Fix Our Government? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

“Republican policies represent a nosedive for our democracy,” she said. Marianne Williamson: A Politico or Apolitical? 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Then they will discuss the themes of freedom, service and democracy. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:58:22Z

“If you looked at the painting and thought it represented the disarray of democracy you would be right,” Ruscha said. Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here’s Why He’s Worried. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

It made me think about the nature of democracy. | Q&A: Karen Knorr?s Photography Offers an Ironic Sense of Place ? Q&A 2011-11-02T22:32:13Z

Later, she examines both small moments and current events, recalling lessons learned from her father, experiences with her son and her own consternation about living in a democracy with a violent legacy. Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Australia's National Dictionary Centre, which chooses the year's most prominent word, said 'democracy sausage' emerged victorious after it gained a large exposure on social media during the July 2 election. 'Democracy sausage' wins Australia's word of the year 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

False statements, misdirection, half-truths and outright lies: When promoted and repeated in the echo chambers of social media, they can shape attitudes, influence policy and erode democracy. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Well before the disgraceful travesty of the 2016 presidential election, David Daley became aware that something was profoundly broken in American democracy. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

The ability to distance ourselves from strong feelings — to resist appeals to fear, to hatred, to selfishness — is fundamental to a functioning democracy. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

One upside to these protests is that they promote a conversation about financial regulation, income inequality and the conditions of our democracy. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

Trump himself has no speaking part in this dark, sometimes seriocomic, take on Russia’s malevolent role in the turmoil besetting Western democracies. Review | John le Carré’s new thriller takes aim at Trump, Brexit and the Russia mess 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

One imagines what this sort of rooted, meaningful democracy might look like. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The article nicely conveys his sense that democracy as currently practised in France is a charade inimical to true rule of the people. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z

And it was these cooperatives that were the foundation stone for the huge, tolerant social democracy that now exists in contemporary Denmark. Something puzzling in the state of Denmark 2012-12-21T22:55:08Z

It is the same question that democracies face culturally, especially those whose long-standing stability and prosperity is grounded on colonial appropriation, cultural theft and genocide. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s an emerging democracy that the United States wants to showcase; more often, it’s a longtime ally. What’s a state dinner, again? Macron is back for the first one post-covid. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The lies and attacks, counter-lies and counter-attacks, that course through the election cycle epitomize the difference between the theory and practice of democracy. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z

It was a reminder that just because a girl cares about glitter Gucci loafers and floral handbags doesn’t mean she isn’t interested in the fate of the democracy as well. How women reclaimed their place in fashion’s spotlight in 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

A focus on individual leaders would ignore or disallow, she said, “a lot of the ways that change actually occurs, especially in a democracy.” American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The world now contains dozens of failed “democracies” in the midst of, or verging toward, civil war, anarchy, and/or totalitarian takeover. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The “House of Cards” actor was born in Stockholm and is an enthusiastic informal ambassador: “We are a friendly country, well-educated and strong bearers of democracy in the world.” Nordic state dinner: A warm welcome for leaders from cold climes 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

She challenges the boys’ nascent notions of manhood against the backdrop of a society getting its first taste of democracy after seven decades under the rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the P.R.I. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Maybe that’s fine for a day or two while everyone takes a few sighs of relief that democracy has survived its stress test. Perspective | The media can be glad for the Biden White House’s return to normalcy. But let’s not be lulled. 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Through a close reading of political pamphlets, Bailyn believed that the founders held sincere and reasoned ideas about democracy and profoundly objected to British claims of ultimate power to enact laws for the colonies. Eminent scholar of early U.S., Bernard Bailyn, dies at 97 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Mark Green reviews it with two other books on political topics, calling it an “interdisciplinary masterpiece” that “urges rational leaders to better deploy ‘imagery, sound and speech’ to elevate reason over emotion, democracy over reaction.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

This is the thing about our democracy, is it is always a work in progress. Valerie Jarrett's leap of faith that started her path to the Obama White House 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

In an effort to find more common ground, she underwrites Derrida's assertion that Islam is "the other of democracy" because Muslim states could retain their distinctiveness while recognising Israel and promoting democratic values. On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review 2013-05-10T11:00:03Z

In Walt’s telling, “the energetic pursuit of liberal hegemony was mostly a failure. … By 2017, in fact, democracy was in retreat in many places and under considerable strain in the United States itself.” A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

When asked in an interview about his artistic credo, Carter, who did not like talking about such things, suggested that his music was like an ideal of American democracy, with “dissenting independent voices creating harmony.” Music Review: Elliott Carter Memorial at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-01-15T22:48:02Z

The difference is, in Other Russia there were people who accepted our values out of necessity, whereas Larry Tribe and Bill Kristol don’t have a difference of opinion on what democracy is. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Placed opposite Roman in a stand-off and with Kendall between them, she thinks that reminding Ken that giving Mencken the presidency will be disastrous for democracy will be enough to appeal to his morality. Cousin Greg was the feckless joke of "Succession." Now he's the idiot who abets democracy's fall 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

What emerged was a political entity that was neither totalitarian communism nor a capitalist democracy but something in the middle—one might call it market socialism. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

The people who attacked the Capitol, like the guy in a "Camp Auschwitz" hoodie or the men in vests adorned with far-right symbols, didn't want democracy to prevail. My grandfather survived the Holocaust. Here’s what his story tells me about today 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Is it really a sign of elitism and hostility to democracy to regard invocations of “the people,” whether by right-wing nationalists or left-wing activists, as dangerous invitations to exclude the not-people? The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

It became communist after World War Two but embraced democracy in 1990 and aspires to join the European Union. Ruined Albanian churches could be tourist magnet if repaired: experts 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

And this kind of thing is allowed to continue in a democracy because Americans all feel that one day they're going to win the income lottery and join that hallowed 1%. John Oliver tackles income inequality on 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

In 1974, army officers led a nearly bloodless coup, freed the colonies and established the current democracy, but a chaotic period of adjustment followed. The rain forest destination Americans are missing out on 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Gopnik gives the examples of Belgium’s genocide in the Congo and the Cold War exploits of the United States in Latin America, where “we were exporting not liberal democracy but brutal military rule.” Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

In this moment in time, that is extraordinarily important for our democracy and our government. Téa Leoni and Madeleine Albright Discuss ‘Madam Secretary,’ Fact and Fiction 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

“He was not only very prophetic but also a very deep thinker” and a “fighter for democracy,” says Robert Rehak, cultural attache at the Czech Embassy. Mutual Inspirations Festival 2015 celebrates Czech writer Karel Capek 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

The library is, in a way, a symbol of the Whitman democracy that we embrace. A Year in Poetry at Poets House in Lower Manhattan 2010-07-08T22:25:00Z

During a time of twisted populism and rampant anti-intellectualism, it’s tempting to ask how a protest that resembles an academic Association of Writers & Writing Programs panel might serve democracy or the common good. A canon round for democracy: The literati’s power in a populist era is limited, but vital 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

A complex individual who believed in change and was troubled by the country's long military rule, he took advantage of a brief window of Nigerian democracy to run for president in 1993. 'Supreme Price' tallies the cost of seeking change in Nigeria 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

But that is so fundamentally different from, to coin a phrase, actively trying to interfere in election results and pervert our democracy. ‘They never saw this coming’: A Q&A with Kellyanne Conway 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

But democracy has poets on its side, too. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z

On the surface our findings suggest we’re buying into this normalisation, with a too negative picture of what other people think, particularly in western democracies. Why 2016 is the year the public got things wrong 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a somewhat familiar if rather elevated sentimental education, with in-class discussions about the ancient Greeks and democracy, and an outside world that seems largely defined by its stark black-and-white truths. Review: Before Barack, There Was ‘Barry’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

President Barack Obama for a Republic Day parade, a day after they held talks to deepen ties between the world's two largest democracies. India honors Bill Gates with civilian award 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The film uses the story of the rise of Trump to document the failures, weaknesses and flaws in our democracy. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Capitol a year ago and nearly thwart what had long been considered a stable democracy. Review: An imperialist repents in ‘Gangsters of Capitalism’ 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Such things should not happen in a democracy. It’s shocking, really shocking.” Whodunnit: the husband or the owl? How The Staircase invented true crime TV 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

The world is on high alert to threats against democracy, but Slobodian, a historian of ideas at Wellesley, calls attention to one of its biggest challengers: capitalism itself. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Parenting is a lot like democracy, he adds, in which the tension between order and freedom is in constant flux. In ‘Captain Fantastic,’ Viggo Mortensen found more than a modern-day ‘Mr. Mom’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

India was a "raucous democracy", the senator was told by the embassy in the Indian capital in another briefing paper, with a government that was "a true partner" of the US. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z

Nelson Mandela, who guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy and became an international icon of peace and reconciliation, died Thursday at age 95. Lady Gaga aims for 'Artpop' but falls short 2013-11-08T20:37:00Z

The first were "those who occupy positions of power and responsibility in our democracy", such as politicians, corporate heads and, possibly, the owners and editors of national newspapers. After Leveson: how the judge tried to tackle the 'murky' business of privacy 2013-03-26T13:37:22Z

“A library is democracy inside four walls, the freedom to information,” he said then. Sentencing set for New Orleans trumpeter in charity fraud 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The left had to overcome its suspicion of the free market, and accept that only by exploiting its productivity could government improve society: social democracy and neo-liberal economics were actually complementary. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z

American democracy is in danger of becoming optional. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

“I’m going to try and make people realize that in order to live the life they are living,” he said, “they need to have democracy, and it’s being threatened.” Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

At the time few, if any, journalists pointed out to Cain that the job of the president is to support the Constitution and exercise leadership in a democracy, not to be funny. Enough with “the Colbert Defense”: Why criminals, bigots and jerks cry “satire!” when exposed 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

But what liberal democracy eroded — the authority of religion, the coherence of a community, a sense of collective belonging, home, meaning and security — could prompt far more radical responses. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“But if you think about it, anonymity is key to democracy.” Illuminating the ‘Dark’ Web and Content Monitoring 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Vargas Llosa, 74, said he hoped the presidential election in Peru next year would strengthen democracy and the rule of law, and build on the peace of recent years. Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa rules out Peru presidency rerun 2010-12-06T20:07:00Z

The coming years, he writes, will be either a “pivot back to New Deal economics and forward to energized democracy, or a heartbreaking interregnum between two bouts of deepening American fascism.” Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

A glance at the morning paper confirms that a semblance of democracy is no guarantee of a just society. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

“In a way it refocuses the dinner . . . on the role we want the press to play in a democracy.” The rise and fall — or maybe rebirth? — of the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

George Lucas said he created the original Star Wars in response to Nixon and the Vietnam War–a story of teenage rebellion to save democracy. Rogue One Rewinds-and Rewrites-the Star Wars Legacy 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

At the other end of the list is a highly developed western democracy whose citizens with children report being significantly less content than citizens without. Many Parents Are Happier Than Non-Parents — But Not in the U.S. 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Through the centuries, Chernow said, the press has been a bulwark of democracy, and presidential attempts to undermine it have invariably failed. Trump wasn’t at the White House correspondents’ dinner — again — but his presence was felt 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

“Today’s tyranny, an effort to subjugate America’s democracy by mob rule, was fomented and directed by Mr. Trump,” said Jim Mattis, Trump’s first secretary of defense. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

It is more accurate to describe the United States, which collected a significantly smaller share of income in taxes than most developed democracies, as a nation unwilling to pay for Johnson’s dreams. An Argument That Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Wasn’t So Great 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Leadership in all its forms is a sacred trust in a democracy, almost like an anointed priesthood. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

It’s also more important to the functioning of democracy than whether journalists are willing to talk honestly and forthrightly about how they do their job. Why journalists need to practice what they preach 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Preserving Iraq’s fledgling democracy will not only offer stability, but it will honor the sacrifice of our soldiers who fought and died for the cause of freedom. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

We have been kind of raised with the assumption that everything is always forward, with the assumption that democracy is just in our DNA, and certain things are just never going to happen. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

“When we condemn by instinct our democracy is on a slippery slope.” Can Woody Allen Work in Hollywood Again? 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

In the film you say there's "too much democracy in the culture, not enough democracy in the society." Q&A: Fran Lebowitz on Public Speaking 2010-11-22T18:45:00Z

Those kicked life into the studio audience, but at a cost: the comedown diverts some of the vitality away from the poignant conversation that followed about how dictatorships rise out of democracies. "The Problem with Jon Stewart" has a few issues, but nothing that a little tough love can't fix 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The scariest part of Holder’s book is the “note” inserted between the introduction and Chapter 1, a five-page “case for democracy.” Steps in the Left Direction 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Magna Carta, authorised on 15 June 1215, is considered one of the first steps towards parliamentary democracy. Churchill Magna Carta plan revealed 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

While he was recognized abroad with a Nobel Peace Prize, his reputation in Poland's boisterous new democracy waned. Walesa, Poland's flawed hero, given redemption in film 2013-08-14T16:08:54Z

"Gay couples, you can expect this card from him at your wedding: You guys are perfect for each other and a cancer on our democracy." Stephen Colbert cheers the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

In short, to save American democracy we must live our politics like we mean it. Cut Trump supporters off: The horror of migrant kids taken from parents demands personal action 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is a strange way to regard the judiciary, a pillar of the representative democracy she wants so much to restore to health. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Social democracy, if it is about anything, surely, is about constantly striving to get that tricky balance right. Can Scandinavian crime fiction teach us something about socialism? 2011-02-24T09:00:03Z

And I think that obsession with the irretrievability of youth is very much a phenomenon in all secular, prosperous, consumerist democracies, where grown men have collections like Abe's and are very worshipful of things. Director Todd Solondz looks for lightness in new "Dark Horse" 2012-07-26T18:21:08Z

But irony is something that gets lost in translation from the satirists in a democracy to the enforcers in a theocracy. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Everything old can be made new again. Like democracy.” Review: To Shill a Mockingjay - Part 1 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Asked about the Neilsons' impact on the philanthropic strategy she has formed with her husband, Moore replied, "I think we have a true democracy." Trevor Neilson: Stars' adviser on giving big bucks 2010-12-04T04:38:00Z

There are a number of tensions inherent in the relationship between philanthropy and democracy. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

One director lasted five months, suddenly resigning to pursue what he described as a commitment to “the fate of humanism and democracy.” Design Museum Hopes 11th Director’s the Charm 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Roosevelt wrote this children’s primer on democracy in 1932, the same year her husband was elected president. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

One friend who grew up in the 70s told me that her father’s favorite line when she argued with him was: “This is not a democracy.” “Your child probably won’t get into the Ivy League”: How I learned to parent average kids 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

To say this killing of black bodies by the state, without accountability, is unsustainable to our democracy. With Tamir Rice decision, Americans must get off the sidelines 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

But Boot insisted it was not a laughing matter and rather, “an insult in our democracy.” Tucker Carlson, Max Boot get into petty exchange over who is more wrong on foreign policy 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

The system is imperfect, but then, so is democracy. In ‘By the People,’ Designing for the Underserved and Overlooked 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“If both teams’ starting five were all White or all Black, that is not a story,” says Theodore R. Johnson, a senior fellow at New America focusing on race, democracy and American identity. Analysis | Jill Biden’s gaffe about women’s basketball and its endless fallout 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Baime instead presents White’s life as a struggle to fulfill what Langston Hughes termed the “basic truths of American democracy” and to support a “new idea of patriotism.” Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Despite the Norwegian government’s support of the arts, Mr. Kristensen chose to focus his 50-minute opera and fresco on what he sees as the pitfalls of the country’s “representative democracy.” Steinar Haga Kristensen Is One of a Wave of New Artists Reviving the Norwegian Capital 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

“I fear our democracy was nothing but a short-lived dream,” she says. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

From January to May, Carnegie will host “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice,” an exploration of creative expression during the fragile democracy in Germany from 1919 to 1933. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Despite her distance from the film, festival organizers did receive a statement from the democracy leader. Film on Myanmar activist opens festival 2011-10-27T20:15:17Z

France then was no democracy, its king no democrat. Book Review Podcast: 'The French Intifada' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

It is recognised as an expression of freedom of thought and democracy in opposition. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z

And inequality undermines the workings of our democracy, which is a problem since we need a functioning democracy to solve big problems – like climate change and even inequality itself. Social inequity vs. the environment is a false choice 2014-03-16T21:00:00Z

“Shared beliefs: a belief in democracy, liberty, security and, above all, a mutual belief in freedom.” At the state dinner for South Korea, two nations toast an anniversary 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Liberty, equality, pursuit of happiness for everyone, a true democracy. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Are you going to allow the dialogue between art and democracy to come to an end?” Lincoln Center Turns Away Woman Wearing Anti-Trump Sign 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Such is the state of fear — Freedom House declares democracy to be facing “its most serious crisis in decades” — that even economists are leaping across customary academic boundaries into political science in order to opine. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

"If we want human rights, freedom and democracy, we have to be outspoken and tell the world about our problems," Geramifard says. A chance to hear Iran's Voices of the Unheard | Rachel Aspden 2010-03-19T10:24:00Z

For an American writer constantly inundated with headlines about techno-terrorists using lines of Cyrillic code to destabilize democracy, the objection to Herzog’s line of thinking is clear. Werner Herzog: 'I'm not a pundit. Don't push me into that corner' 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Rather, and this is only restating Frase’s position, I would argue that the answer is better work, not less — a solution which, of course, can only be achieved through winning more income, equality, democracy, etc. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z

In this “lucid and essential” guide, two political scientists write about the norms that have sustained American democracy, and argue that President Trump has tried to eviscerate more than one of those norms. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

After all, the U.S. is a country that has — at least until recently — had a much more religious population than other Western industrialized democracies. "Imagine" at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

A question about her last visit to Brooklyn elicited a rumination on democracy and truth. Barbra Streisand Can’t Get Trump Out of Her Head. So She Sang About Him. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Indeed, so entwined is capitalism with American society that, to many, it is almost synonymous with democracy. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

As the world's largest democracy grows in economic and consumer power, so does the appetite for information about modern India. 'India: A Portrait': Patrick French's new history of India since 1947 2011-07-27T19:39:04Z

There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

But of course this kind of democracy is as mediated by money, hierarchy and access as its political counterpart. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Dhillon says his concerns were dismissed by his boss; according to him, she said the newsroom is "not a democracy." Sam Bee's "Full Frontal" moral compass: Why her brand of comedy is more important than ever 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

The “Sketches” announced the author’s distinctly “Western” — as opposed to Russian — belief in “moral progress, freedom and democracy,” and earned him an ardent international following. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Thinking about the relationship between history, memory, wound and democracy, and trying to find a form to write about it all at once. Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

And when that happens, and the path is demonstrated to lead back to or through Twitter, how easily will Musk deny culpability instead of taking steps to prevent future violence or assaults on democracy? "Elon Musk's Crash Course" warns of the danger of a billionaire's love of being unreasonable 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Stewart is in a much more stable environment, a much more established democracy. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z

The crushing of democracy that Jan witnessed in Chile ensured that she would spend the rest of her life championing human rights and refugee organisations. Jan Fairley obituary 2012-06-14T12:56:13Z

William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator – the nation’s most important anti-slavery and anti-death penalty magazine — was dedicated to the uncompromising and revolutionary promises of the Enlightenment, modernity and democracy. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z

Northern Ireland was a small but significant fissure in the historical narrative that led from the Allied victory in World War II to the global victory of capitalism and liberal democracy in the Cold War. Inside the Troubles of “’71″: This Belfast war thriller is (almost) an Iraq war movie in disguise 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Cornish puts it down to the democracy of the genre movie. SXSW 2011: Joe Cornish on aliens, hoodies and Attack the Block 2011-03-14T01:24:49Z

People need to learn about the principles of democracy, freedom of expression, human rights and humanism. Taslima Nasrin attacks 'cancer' of censorship in Indian society 2012-02-10T17:29:24Z

We came so close to losing our democracy due to some real dolts. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z

He is a billionaire spending his money to save democracy for the populace, but especially for his children. Perspective | For his first debate, Mike Bloomberg wore a nice suit and a look of boredom 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

And in a contemporary setting, this question of democracy, this question of who has a voice, who has the right to have a voice, is prevalent. From masculinity to race, Apple's basketball series "Swagger" addresses "so much more than sports" 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

The square has become an official place to gather and protest now, but will this trend continue in to the future, even after democracy has been achieved in Egypt ? When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z

Sometimes the proponents of access are merely dressing up greed in the garb of democracy; gift shops and hotels are less about the people than the proceeds. The Grand Canyon Needs to Be Saved By Every Generation 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

However flawed our democracy may be otherwise, popular culture is understood to be perfectly democratic. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

"Art is always like this," she says, referring to the way the tales' themes of democracy and the abuse of power came to resonate with world events. One Thousand and One Nights: Dangerous liaisons 2011-08-09T20:30:02Z

Is it any surprise that their take on American democracy is often despairing? When Political Theater Ditches the Disguises of Fiction 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

“I think that democracy should not be underestimated,” he says, before a rousing final speech about the artist’s role in society. Jake Gyllenhaal: ‘I would love to not talk about my personal life’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

What matters next is how the media and democracy responds. Fox News: 25 years of making everyone's lives progressively crappier 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

South Korea may look like a lovely place to live these days, but its transition to democracy was not a smooth one. Slash and earn: the blood-soaked rise of South Korean cinema 2011-03-31T09:33:47Z

“He is destroying our democracy,” said Andi Drimmer, a retired computer analyst, at a rally in Gaithersburg, Md. “If he gets reelected, I don’t know if we can recover from it.” ‘THIS IS AN ASSAULT’: History collides with Trump 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

In Spain's newly emerging democracy, Miró's art felt symbolic, both of resistance to Franco's state and of the new freedoms that were coming into being. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z

The plan by Putin and Medvedev to swap jobs after the presidential election is viewed by opposition supporters as openly flouting democracy. Russians stage rival protests over Putin 2012-02-04T11:52:00Z

A careful center-left technocrat, Hudak writes of trends in cannabis legislation and production, praising cannabis “entrepreneurs” who “have invested in development and become more innovative,” demonstrating “the laboratories of democracy at work.” Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

We've come to realise that democracy requires potential leaders to make us false promises; naturally they then fail to fulfil them. What's The King's Speech's secret weapon of mass adulation? 2011-02-22T16:45:41Z

"Let us all unite against those seeking to undermine our hard-won democracy and our democratic institutions, but above all, the people of South Africa." Jacob Zuma goes to court to ban penis painting 2012-05-24T06:39:48Z

The privilege becomes evident as the book unleashes its vision of interlocking corruptions among the spectacularly decadent elite presiding over Asia’s oldest democracy. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

The war on sex is how the religious right and cynical politicians are using the issue of sexual regulation for undermining secular democracy. A night at the vibrator museum 2012-05-20T00:00:00Z

His belief in the democracy of music and the sheer wonder of discovery always underpinned his work. Martin Read obituary 2012-11-12T15:01:14Z

All the Wallander books are basically a discussion on the relationship between democracy and the system of justice.” Henning Mankell, literary master of ‘Nordic noir,’ dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

I think it often gets hyperbolic and people will talk about the fall of democracy and imagine perhaps there's a militarized state and an overthrow. Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The discussion morphs into a debate on whether the Internet is a boon or a burden to democracy. Trump’s presidency has prompted a new, nationwide college course on why democracies collapse 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

Both men were awarded their Nobels in December, and Vargas Llosa called Liu "a Chinese fighter, who is a champion of democracy in his country." In China, Vargas Llosa criticizes authoritarianism 2011-06-15T05:58:08Z

His primary focus shifted from the threat posed by the Soviet Union to Western democracies to the one posed by China. Lev Navrozov, Literary Translator and Soviet Dissident, Dies at 88 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

So how did the United States settle into a two-party system in contrast to multiparty democracies such as France, Germany and Canada? In a presidential election, it’s almost always about two parties 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Because American democracy is again under threat, coming apart with chaos and bloodshed, I urge you to read what Bly said the night he won the award. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

“I liked the fact that they were comparing their democracy and comparing it to what we have in the United States. I thought that was kind of cute.” Is ‘Holmes & Watson’ So Bad It’s Good? 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Having survived such a harsh history, Armenia has emerged as a democracy that cherishes the many layers of its past. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Trump used this scheme to undermine our democracy and manipulate voters into supporting policies that favor the wealthy while avoiding any substantive conversation about the real issues facing our country. Books for the Trump years: For when your heart aches and you can’t leave the bed 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z

In a wonderful demonstration of democracy in action, Dorries has taken part in half of the trials so far. Nadine Dorries proves a vote-winner in I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! 2012-11-16T12:54:30Z

“But I’ve noticed your democracy being threatened. Do not be complacent. Decide what side of history you’d like to be on.” Adult film actress claims she was escorted from flight after making speech about George Floyd protests 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

In other democracies, the popular vote is called “the vote.” Fran Lebowitz on Trump: "No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker" 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z

If ever there was a case that an information democracy, even a very messy one, is preferable to an information oligarchy, then the history of nutrition advice is it. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

We have a thriving democracy here in our small country and what is under discussion is the welfare of our children and their rights to grow and develop in a non-violent environment. Can Iceland lead the way towards a ban on violent online pornography? 2013-02-16T22:46:28Z

“As communicators, we were remarkably terrible at communicating our role in this democracy,” he said. Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

“To me the justice system is a starting point to look at how democracy functions,” says the film-maker, who studied both law and journalism. Whodunnit: the husband or the owl? How The Staircase invented true crime TV 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Inviting citizens to vote on such an enormous policy change was a simple enactment of direct democracy. In ‘The People vs. Democracy,’ Trump Is Just One Populist Among Many 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

"She cared most deeply about South Africa, its culture, its people and its ongoing struggle to realize its new democracy." South African anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Gordimer dies 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Many people, at least in Western democracies on most days, can live their whole lives without encountering extreme violence. Why Parents Worry More About Sex than Violence in the Movies 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

It changed the course of democracy in this country and ultimately for the entire world. Manchester Sound: the Massacre – a new play talks raves and revolutions 2013-06-07T13:42:29Z

“The reason there’s an emphasis on the word ‘imagination’ is that I think that usually when we say the word ‘democracy,’ we’re referring to a known set of electoral mechanisms or constitutional institutions, etc.,” 2018 Festival Albertine to Explore Democracy and Its Future 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

“That’s highly alarming. The way this is being pursued against scholars and educators of all kinds is an attack on democracy.” Scholarly Groups Condemn Laws Limiting Teaching on Race 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Enola Holmes” converges around the stakes of democracy, including the work of suffragists fighting for widespread representation. ‘Enola Holmes’ Review: She’s Beyond Elementary, and Not Your Dear 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

The idea is that elections are so vital to democracy that even though political speech has a higher standard of First Amendment protection, false information about voting should be removed from the big platforms. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

We are in a unique moment in our democracy, in a post-Parkland moment. "Voting is important but insufficient": Scott Warren on youth power in politics 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

But the rollback of interracial democracy and the creation of Jim Crow, the show emphasizes, arrived not with any single stroke from above, but through many actions at all levels over decades. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Comedian Joy Behar, a co-host of "The View" who also has veterans in her family, wondered if America's democracy, which was fervently defended in past world wars, was now at risk. Meghan McCain slams Putin summit: Trump “acted like a pathetic puppy who was completely neutere... 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

Symbolically, this record marked the dawn of democracy in South Africa, and its inherent rhetorics. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Of course, not only can names and speech hurt people, but as we have seen, they can also threaten democracy. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Whenever it focuses on Sydney’s dash through the minefields of democracy, “Kings” is entertaining and informative, if not surprising theatrically. Review: In ‘Kings,’ Washington Is Where Idealism Goes to Die 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

They were there, they said, to protect an important symbol of our democracy. Perspective | The Capitol mob images shouldn’t surprise you. Open insurrection was always where we were headed. 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

As a portrait of hacker culture, Alif the Unseen also tackles both the central threat to and hope for democracy in our near future. Alif the Unseen: speculative fiction meets the Arab spring 2012-12-13T09:58:14Z

Without those bonds and a commitment to establishing fact-based arguments and critiques of power, democracy itself is at risk. One easy New Year's resolution to help save democracy in 2019: Go to the library 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

We can't really maintain our democracy when so much money is at the top infecting our democracy. Economic disparity docs occupy Sundance fest 2013-01-23T17:24:17Z

So that was a lesson learned, but it was not a good lesson for democracy. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

A vibrant democracy needs more editorial diversity representing a broader range of tastes and interests. Perspective | Penguin Random House is buying Simon & Schuster. That’s bad for readers. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

One key scene in “Millennium Approaches,” in which Louis disgorges a sprawling coffee-shop rant about democracy, liberalism, tolerance, race, power and human rights is probably the hardest stretch of the two plays for an actor. Career Zigzag, Changing Coasts And Galaxies 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

That this is the bread and butter of democracy, the ability to actually get to the polls and cast a meaningful ballot in a genuinely competitive election. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

If globalization will not save us, then there are no big, all-inclusive answers — not technology or democracy or spiritual rebirth or anything that happens to everyone everywhere. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

On “Africa Mon Afrique,” a song written before the recent military coup in Mali, the duo urge Africans to embrace multiparty democracy. Amadou & Mariam Aim to Expand Audience With ?Folila? 2012-04-13T21:05:13Z

Plato, it should be noted, hated democracy, considering it to be a system good for training people to win election and little else. How do we make America great? 'Necessary Trouble' and 'Against Democracy' take contrasting views 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

"We find year after year that life satisfaction is reported to be happiest in the social democracies of northern Europe," report co-author Jeffrey Sachs told The Associated Press. This country is the happiest in the world, even during the coronavirus pandemic 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

Camp residents are fluent in concepts such as democracy and "gender balance." Dadaab refugee camp, detailed in 'City of Thorns,' is a world ripped from the world 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

And last, but certainly not least: That opposition is at the heart of our democracy, especially when you really believe the Constitution is violated or there are moral and ethical issues at stake. Barbara Lee doesn’t feel vindicated for voting against Afghan war: ‘I almost wish ... I had been wrong’ 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

You empathize on this occasion with Jennings’s wholly embraceable Mark, but even more so with a playwright struggling to contain all of her thoughts about this utterly confounding juncture for our democracy. Review | It was a dark and stormy night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, as the talk turned to Trump . . . 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The Dalai Lama applauded efforts to strengthen the U.S.-India relationship, adding it was "logical and essential" for the two greatest democracies to collaborate closely. US embassy cables: Dalai Lama says prioritise climate change over politics in Tibet 2010-12-16T21:30:22Z

By denying the casual, commonplace quality of racial prejudice, and peering into the saddest values of the greatest generation, Hollywood perpetuates an ahistorical vision of how democracy and white supremacy comfortably co-existed. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

One side was a despotic empire that suppressed the most basic human needs and desires; the other was a collection of democracies that, however corrupt and imperfect, sought to enhance human freedom. Perspective | John le Carré didn’t just invent the characters in the foreground of the spy world. He designed the entire set. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

It's terrible because we're seeing the erosion of democracy from the inside out -- the press, the rule of law, all of these things are being eroded. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

When elections were called in 1932, the purpose was not to confirm democracy but to bring down the republic. How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

So it seems are bribery, deceit and the subversion of democracy. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z

As a result, the orchestra's example of democracy became the unexpected glue to hold together a messy opera while still conveying the opera's message of democracy. Beethoven's messy opera 'Fidelio' is in fine hands in San Francisco 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Thebes is presented as an African country emerging from civil war into democracy under the leadership of a president, Eurydice, with a definite feminist agenda. Welcome to Thebes 2010-06-22T23:43:00Z

This spiritual democracy inherent in Reformation Protestantism prepared the ground from which ideas of political democracy would one day grow. The political Bible, part 3: how Christian Britain came to accept democracy 2011-08-22T07:00:01Z

Deep in the wheat fields of southern Idaho, the storage facility of democracy lies in wait. On Constitution Day, putting We the People in your pocket

And I find that to be unworkable in terms of democracy. David Simon: 'I don't want anybody in jail for using drugs' 2013-05-11T17:00:10Z

It’s ostensibly a history of the Korean War, but delves into the meaning of an army in a democracy to a greater degree than any other book. Brad Taylor Has a Theory About What Makes for Good Thrillers 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

In Independence Square it added a note of hope as I witnessed the struggle for democracy. The evocative music that inspired my travels: readers' tips 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Hitler’s totalitarianism, strongly supported by his insanely enthusiastic base, made democracy seem lax and messy. Review | Nazi Germany as a travel destination: A new book explores how Hitler duped tourists 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Political violence was claiming close to 100 lives a week, even as negotiators were guiding the country into post-apartheid democracy. Time of death 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

But like our messy democracy, “they’re what we have,” Shrum said — best illuminated by an understanding of strategy and sincerity alike. What should you look for in the Democratic debates? Ask the man who prepped Gore and Kerry. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

But recycling the old punchlines won’t cut it when dealing with a president threatening to degrade the foundations of our democracy. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Which is not exactly the same as defending democracy. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The goal, he said, “would be to engage people in defense of democracy and our Constitution, which means engaging with Congress and their leaders to advance things or to stop things, or whatever.” Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

But it was fought, Ms. Freeman said, out of Hamilton’s belief that he needed to preserve his honor so he could lead the country through what he foresaw as an impending crisis of American democracy. Up From the Family Basement, a Little-Seen Hamilton Trove 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

"You don't get democracy by silencing the voice of the public interest," Stein said. Doctor poised for Green Party nod for president 2012-07-14T07:55:08Z

And in America and Europe this is exactly what Social democracy did. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

It isn’t enough; as Xue instructs her — and as circumstances subsequently bear out — democracy is a degrading and unreliable system. Review: In the Musical ‘Soft Power,’ China Whistles the Tune 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Many said “that democracy really didn’t matter to them very much — they didn’t really care whether they lived in democracy or not. And those numbers seem to be rising.” At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

"Any country in a leading democracy must set an example," she said. Jolie: US must lead against torture 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

In any case, the bailout sends a powerful message about the centrality of the arts in a modern democracy. Hoping for a Theater Bailout? Better Head to London 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

I understand the value of freedom and democracy, the freedom to speak one's language and the freedom of worship. The legendary Lidia Bastianich on the deep importance and myriad contributions of immigrants 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

And democracy needs news consumers — let’s call them patriotic citizens — who stay informed and act accordingly. Perspective | ‘I don’t know what to believe’ is an unpatriotic cop-out. Do better, Americans. 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

A lone song suddenly released by Maxwell, as yet unconnected to an album, arrives like a threnody for liberal democracy. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

I've said it before: If our democracy is a horror film, the call is coming from inside of this house. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Despite its proud history as a stable constitutional democracy, the US has, for 10 years, been affected by post-traumatic shock, following the horrific events of 11 September 2001. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z

He started seeking ways to furnish more green space to more neighborhoods, fostering more mixing of people and more democracy. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z

Still, during a down moment backstage, he sighs: “Saving democracy is not an easy business.” Prophets of Rage Bring Their Anger to the Republican Convention 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Laxman's Common Man character, often described as holding up a mirror to India's democracy, spawned a television sitcom, was the mascot for an airline and featured on a postage stamp. India's 'Common Man' cartoonist RK Laxman dead at 93 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

“A lot of us are disappointed,” Coyne said of the dream of democracy. What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

But you certainly can’t make the argument from history that democracy is the source of economic growth. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

And debates are underway about the causes and symptoms of a condition afflicting many of the world’s democracies. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

It is democracy in action, with the funding following the wishes of the people. Letters: Gift aid allows funding to follow the wishes of the people 2010-05-18T23:05:00Z

And while we’re at it, it was the Greeks, not the Jews, who invented democracy. The Persistence of the Oldest Hatred 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Fake news may be bedeviling our democracy, but fiction fabricates for a higher purpose, and audiences have embraced a flawed protagonist who helps us empathetically understand his brokenness. Critic's analysis: Tonys spread the love in a year of innovation and risk-taking on Broadway 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The other argues for dismantling the corporations and ideals that he believes harm the environment, small-town life, democracy and the economy. Neil Young's in protest mode on 'The Monsanto Years' 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

He has this speech about what it means and how it stands in for democracy and the points he makes are just so lovely. Jesse Tyler Ferguson pivots to baseball in a Broadway play 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

An ardent champion of democracy, Beethoven was the first notable composer to take a daring public stance politically in his music. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

I think our democracy is stronger than ever. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

I said quite directly to them that the strength of a democracy is its ability to absorb such criticism. Film: Conducting Documentary Diplomacy 2011-01-16T02:43:01Z

In our own time, that generational plunge in the numbers regarding democracy as “essential” suggests a troubling echo. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

It’s been important to look at what it means for Rio and Brazil to think about racial democracy, or what it means to look at race in the context of Latin America and Mexico. Milton Curry, USC's new architecture dean, on educating the 'citizen architect' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

When forerunners of Western democracy began emerging four hundred years ago, the philosophers Hobbes and Vico predicted they would inevitably lead to chaos and a return to all-powerful central control. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Another classic: Orson Welles in “The Third Man” reflects on how “500 years of democracy and peace” in Switzerland produced only “the cuckoo clock.” 24 Hours Inside the Christian Marclay Installation ‘The Clock’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.” For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

“It embodies the idea of transparent democracy,” he said. Looking at Where Chicago Works 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Fanciful or not, being a threat to democracy would suggest it’s never too late to break typecasting. Olivia de Havilland, 101, on suing Feud: TV show 'put false words in my mouth' 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Basically, her conceptualization is that democracy depends on our understanding of the state apparatus,” Mr. Mokgosi explained. Meleko Mokgosi Wants You to See the Politics of Everyday Life 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

News of secret courts being introduced in the world's oldest democracy should scare any rational human. Future tech: Big Brother, big data or creator culture? 2013-03-14T10:26:52Z

“And what they achieve is to destroy democracy in the Western hemisphere for two thousand years.” The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

If Brutalism is loved once more today for its heft and material honesty, it is also so closely associated with social democracy that to be nostalgic for one is to be nostalgic for the other. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

But this is a democracy, and the government is the community.” Justice Stephen G. Breyer Talks About the Pritzker Jury 2011-10-06T09:02:25Z

It wasn’t always a seamless process, and some professors complained that Mr. Marx was arrogant and talked too much about democracy when his management style was fairly autocratic. Tony Marx’s Challenges Running the New York Public Library 2012-10-10T22:41:42Z

It’s a sentiment that dates back centuries but was most famously summed up by the 18th-century French writer Joseph de Maistre, who said, “In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.” Neil deGrasse Tyson gets democracy all wrong: We don’t deserve the one we get — we get the one elites gives us 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

As for Israel’s nature, labeling it an “ethnic democracy” captures only one facet of its being. Is There a Double Standard for Survivors of Boko Haram? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Kissinger and his kindred spirits may be right to alert us to the shortcomings of faith, hope and democracy. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Owen’s dealings with the shipping company introduce some hefty topics — capitalism, nepotism, corruption, democracy — that vibrate throughout the story without ever developing into an argument. Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea,’ It’s Man vs. Leviathan 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

At Rock the Bells words were central; performers would stop the backup and rhyme a cappella, the better to show off their ideas: “Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous,” Immortal Technique rapped. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z

We need to rethink the state, and rearticulate the language of social democracy. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

On this national live tour, he will explore American democracy and the coming presidential election. Comedy Listings for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Or think of it this way: the contest — from early on an essential part of American life — between democracy and empire seems to be ending with empire the victor. Three failing experiments? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Perhaps what you meant to assert was that Israeli and democracy are not terms that you would use together. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Vote “No,” and machinery would be set in motion to permit a free presidential election and a return to democracy. ‘No’: The power of one word against tyranny 2013-03-28T21:43:19Z

I think it's important to stand up to censorship because I think intellectual freedom is a cornerstone for any democracy. Campaigners defend 'celebrated novels' from US censors 2010-09-27T10:55:00Z

Society goes through some rough spots, but it learns from its mistakes and prioritizes democracy and human rights over military panic. China's most popular science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, brings his spectacular trilogy to an end 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Back in London, Look Left Look Right's Counted?, which focuses on ballot-box democracy is at County Hall until the end of the week, and looks more pertinent than ever. What to see 2010-05-14T16:14:00Z

Black and brown folks, especially African-Americans, have saved this country and its democracy many times. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Is the debate over how vigorously to regulate Wall Street about the ground rules of democracy or a policy on which Democrats and Republicans may reasonably disagree? Robert B. Reich’s Recipe for a Just Society 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

They were willing to fight for democracy abroad, while being denied democratic rights at home in the U.S. African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

He tells me that both Carnival and Kolsch are linked to the same traditions of sociability and democracy. Dusseldorf vs. Cologne: A rivalry you can grin and beer 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Earnest, now an NBC analyst, said it’s “valuable for our democracy” to have a senior official explaining and defending the president on a daily basis. A Beltway tradition is on life support. Will we miss the White House briefing if it dies? 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Is the world’s greatest democracy and economy broken?” The Cry of the Centrist: In ‘Tailspin,’ Steven Brill Bemoans a Polarized America 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Their lives depend on the denial of freedom of speech and democracy. Ai Weiwei: 'Every day in China, we put the state on trial' 2013-04-15T14:00:00Z

In 1948, Josip Broz Tito broke with the Soviet leadership and steered Yugoslavia to a unique hybrid status that rejected both Stalinism and liberal democracy. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

On a certain level that might be defensible as a portrait of moral or political reality, but its effect is to disempower the public and suggest that democracy is pointless. From James Bond to Edward Snowden: How the dangerous fantasies of spy fiction shaped our “Mission: Impossible” world 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Public libraries invoke images of our freedom to learn, a cornerstone of our democracy,” Deanna Hanashiro, a retired teacher, said at the most recent city council meeting. Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries 2010-09-26T22:49:00Z

You have these extremely misleading information campaigns that displace the kind of robust conversation of democracy that used to keep us on track. Al Gore still thinks the Internet might save us yet 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Has the project made her reconsider or alter her feelings about the great American democracy experiment? ‘Liberty Bell’ Tolls for Sites Where History Is Alive and Kicking 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

But its 408 properties nationwide still do not include a single site dedicated to the postwar struggle to build a racially equal democracy. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Now it took the form of liberal democracy. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“I think we judge presidents on outcomes,” said Chertoff, “but more important than any particular policy outcome is the fundamental process question: Do presidents promote our constitutional democracy, or do they try to undermine it?” Perspective | George W. Bush’s wars are now over. He retreated a while ago. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Whatever difficulties Czechoslovakia then faced, it was the only parliamentary democracy in Eastern Europe. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

The uncertainties that remain, Mr. Haefliger said, are inevitable, given that Switzerland is a direct democracy, and any such venture would need approval in a referendum. Donation for a Lucerne Opera House Is in Dispute 2011-04-28T21:05:39Z

Even as he embraced the opportunities available to an American academic, he deplored the country's reluctance to imagine, let alone implement, the basic tenets of social democracy. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

They said in unison: “We the people demand a democracy free from the corruption influence of big money and voter suppression. We demand a democracy where every vote is counted and every voice is heard.” Rosario Dawson arrested during pro-democracy sit-in at US Capitol 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

He recommended a “wait and see” policy toward democracy and the opening up of new markets. Special Report: Fashion: Luxury and Unrest 2011-02-25T19:01:18Z

He said the United States spoke about fighting for democracy but wanted to impose its values on others. Putin ally lambasts Western values embodied by Conchita Wurst 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

She read Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child-Rearing, about a British school run like a democracy, and from there she moved to Freud. Esther Perel: 'Fix the sex and your relationship will transform' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

They were all selected because of their experience producing work about democracy and public memory, said Paul Farber, the director of the nonprofit Monument Lab. National Mall Commissions 6 Artists for Monument Exhibition 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

And a stake in the Public, he urged, “is just a metaphor for a stake in New York City, and a stake in America, and a stake in democracy.” The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The fact is, we know an effective democracy demands a populace ready, willing and able to get riled enough to pressure its elected officials into doing their duty in spite of themselves. We can’t forget John F. Kennedy’s assassination 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

His simple questions concerning problems with the intelligence reports about the weapons lead him down a hall of mirrors, into conflicts far more tangled than the simple, black-and-white battle between democracy and tyranny. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z

The administration had no understanding of the damaging effect of digital disinformation on our democracy. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

It has lost none of its vehemence and, with a slight change in ethnic type, could have protested the 2003 invasion of Iraq to uncover weapons of mass destruction while spreading democracy. Review: Tomi Ungerer, Bad Boy of Art, in a Reappraisal 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Politicians, in a democracy, must understand that holding elected office means not only maintaining that direct connection to the people, but also incurring some inevitable measure of risk. In potential new security measures around White House, an unnecessary intrusion

"She cared most deeply about South Africa, its culture, its people and its on-going struggle to realize its new democracy," the statement said.   South African anti-apartheid author, Nobel winner Gordimer dies 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

And yet here you are, moving to D.C. with your boyfriend, to participate more fully in the heroic adventure of capitalist democracy and the governing of a falling empire. My BF’s BF is a cruddy lout 2012-07-23T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s a dark and twisted idea of democracy that everybody is as interesting as everybody else,” he says. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

The second is the scene where Moore screens a 1950s/'60s-era educational short on the difference between a democracy and an authoritarian regime. Lessons from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Establishment Democrats sold out the voters 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Quote: “African Americans were not only fighting for that single victory against an enemy abroad. They were also fighting for justice, equality and democracy back home.” Krewasky Salter 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

This is fatal for democracy and human rights, which depend not only on public engagement, but also the crucial constitutional principle that no one – including the state – is above the law. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z

“Black people do not live under a democracy,” he told the Associated Press at a demonstration following the Rodney King beating in 1992. Americans want justice for George Floyd. Keith Ellison is in charge of getting it. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Because that’s the thing about democracy: We get the leaders that we, as a populace, elect. F**k it, I’m rooting for Donald Trump: It’s what the GOP deserves, and what we all deserve if we don’t mobilize 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Full democracy will not happen overnight, it will happen slowly. Burma activists say hands up for democracy 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

Renly, if not exactly preaching democracy, believes that it’s more complicated, and says that he has the supporters across Westeros to prove it. Game of Thrones Watch: Smoke Monster 2012-04-23T10:07:39Z

The effect was startling: The fabric of American democracy was disintegrating. William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

For this memoir, her focus is on her father’s death in 2001 and what she calls “the democracy of loss.” Review | Actress Alexandra Silber reflects on loss and solace in ‘White Hot Grief Parade’ 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Thank the Internet, on which sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Ain’t it Cool News exert a populist influence greater than that of the old elites and equivalent to the grass-roots democracy of “American Idol.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Defy the Elite! Wait, Which Elite? 2011-01-14T19:33:01Z

Rather, the book is a study in narrative democracy: Everybody gets a turn being the protagonist. This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. Then Things Get Really Interesting. 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The issue is especially timely, given the challenges to democracy around the globe. At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Until a few years ago, Palestine was the only democracy in the Arab world. After Tunisia: Don't forget Palestine 2011-02-04T12:09:42Z

Should it defend fellow democracies and reassure allies, or cede authority to other powers, even if that means some outcomes it might not like? New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

But Israel can’t emulate America because it’s not a liberal democracy. Why Are American Jews Falling Out of Love With Israel? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The way society actually works is there’s some mechanism of basic stability so that the majority of people can outspend the elite so we can have a democracy. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z

“Whatever the shortcomings are of a liberal democracy, you have to live with the shortcomings and not use them as a reason to grab the steering wheel and just go somewhere else,” he said. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Instead, he is forced to turn to the contradictory work of praising recent expansions in democracy even as he works to denigrate them. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Post: Can we be civil enough to save democracy? Style Invitational Week 1222: Foaling around 23 times over 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Such a struggle is not an act of incivility, but a call to civic courage and to start organizing to safeguard the promise of democracy for the generations ahead. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

It's something that I'm concerned with the same way I'm concerned with democracy. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Others are “getting away” from the media onslaught by immersing themselves in the minutiae of democracy. They remember the heartbreak of 2016. And they don’t want to spend this election night alone. 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Disenfranchised, first by the elites’ disregard for the poor, then by the 1964-85 military junta’s disregard for democracy, the shanty-dwellers’ pleas for public services went unanswered. Single-handed 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Then when Trump cast CNN as the "Fake News" villain early in his presidency, Zucker responded to that slander by encouraging his anchors and journalists to vociferously battle in defense of small "d" democracy. After Chris Licht, people are wondering where CNN goes from here. Here's a wild suggestion 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

"That's right: the criminal goon that we know for a fact is being investigated for trying to overthrow our democracy for his idiot emperor was yukkin' it up on a reality show!" "The Masked Singer" may not normalize Rudy Giuliani, but its a crime to even try to make him cuddly 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

If anything, the growth of democracy made this worse, because it threatened to undermine the elite's exclusive control over politically sensitive knowledge. Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain by Christopher Moran – review 2013-01-10T08:00:01Z

Empowering the oppressed — “this is what we think good art in a moment of crisis, such as the one that Western democracies are living through, should be doing,” he said. A Director Asks, Would Jesus Stand With Today’s Migrants? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

At the end of the day – Nov. 8, to be precise – it will be white women who determine whether our democracy holds or fails. "The Good Fight" differentiates between who has the luxury of tuning out our political troubles 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

If he does understand the role that journalists must play in a democracy — as public-spirited watchdogs, not sycophants like his friends at Fox News — he shows no indication of it. Perspective | Trump’s press attacks didn’t cause the Annapolis tragedy. But there is a connection. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

The entire museum space — walls, floor, escalator sides — is wrapped in text on vinyl by the artist, immersing visitors in halls of voices that address conflicting perceptions of democracy, power and belief. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction

The song Slave to the System looks at democracy and economics. Sly and Reggie: sound of the suburbs 2010-11-24T20:59:00Z

This indirect filtering of information is dangerous and leads into McChesney’s key point about the Internet’s potential to undermine democracy. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

Part of the problem is that systemic threats to democracy are too often overshadowed by horse race media coverage and relegated to the purview of good-government groups. Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

And this particular cause is good, because it’s not pointedly left-right political, but it’s just basically promoting the honor of democracy. “It’s when their hearts and spirits are open”: Ben Cohen explains why he’s taking the fight for campaign finance reform on tour 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

That it is still a throbbing, raw nerve in the gladitorial pit of our democracy is surprising. 13 Hours: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie and 'the American Way' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

It’s been a long time since music had the whiff of danger, and longer still since it carried the beat of political change, at least in democracies. Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest 2012-08-22T12:00:25Z

The political message of the "Egmont" Overture, for instance, is an unflinchingly ferocious demand for democracy. Beethoven sounds a defiant tone at the Bowl 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

“At some level, the inauguration of a president is an affirmation of democracy. On a larger scale, it’s not even about a particular person, but about an ideal — a philosophical project.” Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

To experience Hungary’s transformation from totalitarianism to free democracy in the late ’80s and early ’90s, he said, was a wonderful thing. Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

The teenager inside me would tell you with absolute certainty that the only election to ever cause this much damage to our democracy was the 1860 contest. Bullied, autistic and obsessed with presidents: How the 2000 presidential election changed my life 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

Mr Doyle turns outward to show how important America’s civil war was to the rest of the world: liberty and democracy defeated slavery and the landed gentry. The whole family of man 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

In the same spirit of democracy in art that Kinkade spoke of, we asked people around the country to tackle those questions. Kinkade: Home decorator, kitsch-master, or artist? 2012-04-14T16:50:10Z

Truth is a basic part of a functioning democracy. Perspective | Fact-checking President Trump isn’t enough 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

"The glory of American democracy is that every one of our citizens decides who his or her personal heroes are," Beschloss said. Trump's unhinged, tone-deaf list of "American heroes" is a fitting emblem of his presidency 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Creativity is a form of expertise,” something a nation that keeps insisting on its status as a democracy has never been entirely comfortable with. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

“The number-one obstacle is all of this work is our broken democracy,” she said, especially on climate solutions. “A crisis point in our democracy”: Why progressive leaders and thousands of others will risk arrest this week 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

“And I drank it to celebrate that democracy had lasted another year.” Freshman blues: Inside the new House Democrats’ unsettling first year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Black and brown people are also on the frontlines of saving American democracy from the fascism and authoritarianism of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. What fuels “white anxiety”? The baffling hypocrisies behind white paranoia politics 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Today, when the very threads of American democracy feel like they are unraveling, poking fun at the state of the world feels inadequate. How late-night political comedy needs to evolve: Be more subversive 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Rather than urging Arab despots to ride out the whirlwind of revolution coming from Tunisia, it's high time you supported the Arab people's efforts to foster grassroots democracy. After Tunisia: Nouri Gana on Tunisia 2011-01-28T13:00:04Z

Fast-forward to the present where in the United States we have recently inaugurated the Donald Trump administration in what is ostensibly a democracy but that increasingly feels like an authoritarian regime. Hitting Trump where it hurts: The satire troops take up comedy arms against Donald Trump 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

For her, democracy was a word imperial America used to sell free markets and push its agenda. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The last three hundred years have proved democracy to be the best of governments when it works well, the worst when bedeviled by divisiveness, disorganization, chaos, and corruption. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

In the final pages, he insists that complaining about the “burgeoning security state” is not enough; we must instead “build the tools of a new democracy.” Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z

"I continue to cherish hopes to see this country continue its progress toward peace and democracy and to be able to return soon," the Malaysian star said in her statement. Yeoh 'saddened' by deportation from Myanmar 2011-06-30T08:55:08Z

“Trump and Zuckerberg, though they probably agree on nothing, are the two blades of a pair of scissors,” destroying democracy at home and leadership abroad. New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

It is a formidable, respected instrument of democracy, and a trusted source of information and opinion in one of the most powerful cities in the world. This is how much we care about bringing you the annual Post Hunt 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The differences persisted on the issues of slavery, treatment of Native Americans and the merits of democracy. 'Prairie Fever': the highborn British and the American West 2012-06-06T21:19:18Z

This time, it’s not so much about accessorizing a specific candidate as democracy itself. Politics Is Back in Fashion 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

The deep corruption of democracy does not get much attention, nor does the alliance of plutocracy with aspiring autocracy. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

They say that it does not incite violence, contrary to Posobiec's statement, but rather explores the consequences of using totalitarian methods to protect democracy. Pro-Trump Protesters Interrupted 'Shakespeare in the Park' Show in New York 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

In Bernays’ view, humans were irrational and highly manipulable, making true democracy dangerous. The beautiful Airstream myth and painful RV reality of life on the road 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Spatially restricted yet ideologically free-ranging, this thoroughly absorbing documentary, shot mainly inside the apartment, details the family’s rich history within the fluctuating fortunes of Serbian democracy. Review: In ‘The Other Side of Everything,’ a Belgrade Apartment Symbolizes Upheaval 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

He also addresses some common and contentious questions such as whether Israel can be both a Jewish state and a democracy and if its rule over the Palestinians is akin to apartheid. Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“It represents a moment when democracy was unable to handle the conflict of the country.” The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Ireland is a parliamentary democracy. During the February election no party achieved a majority within the multi-party House of Representatives, the body that elects the prime minister and other executive branch officials.  Finally, an LGBT contingent in New York’s St. Patrick’s Day parade — but that’s not the only reason to celebrate 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

In Egypt's nascent democracy, to poke fun at politicians is to do more than discomfort the ignorant. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z

"Because of the BBC I never lost touch with my people, with the movement for democracy in Burma and with the rest of the world," she said. Aung San Suu Kyi pays BBC tribute 2012-06-19T15:38:16Z

During a visit to Australia last month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for democracy to be restored in Fiji and for political freedoms to advance. After Australia tour, Winfrey vacations in Fiji 2010-12-19T13:31:05Z

And the prospect of a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict diminishes daily, threatening the future of Israel as a Jewish democracy. The Carpetbagger: A Muted Reaction 2013-01-29T15:10:51Z

Not to replicate what’s on cable news, but to help to define, through theater, what democracy means today. How imperiled is our democracy? ‘The Race’ wants you to weigh in. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

The former Times Cairo bureau chief offers an eyewitness account of the upheavals of 2011-13 that began with hopes for democracy, moved through counterrevolution and ended in a renewal of military dictatorship. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

In one instance, Russia was replaced with Hungary as a country that is experimenting with new types of non-liberal democracy and dictatorship. You Can Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Book in Russian, Except for the Parts About Russia 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

It is fighting for its right to critique our would-be democracy. Don’t give up on poetry! 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

I know that some readers are offended by the mere use of “narrative” or “story” to describe crucial information about an attack on democracy. The Jan. 6 Hearing Put a True-Crime Drama on Prime-Time TV 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

Of course I have to convince the politicians, who tend to be deaf and don’t understand that making music together is a great metaphor for democracy. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

Indeed, liberal democracy at its best can be a great safeguard of the freedom to create such art. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“The future of our democracy depends on correcting all that is wrong with our elections process, including the insidious practice of voter suppression,” Abrams said in a statement. Stacey Abrams book on voting rights to be published in June 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

In that sense, the battle for moderate conservatism is now inextricable from a battle for liberal democracy itself. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

A telegram from President Woodrow Wilson said the gift “serves democracy.” Revisiting 1917, a Year That Reverberates for Jews Around the World 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Would I be able to persuade readers that the United States had suffered a coup that had transformed an erstwhile liberal democracy into a literal-minded theocratic dictatorship? Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

“We were looking at the backdrop of climate change, the integration of our aging process, Peggy saying it was going to be her last show, the last gasp of democracy, maybe,” Weaver said. A Theater Duo’s ‘Last Gasp’ Doesn’t Look Like the End 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

Wilson, Beschloss notes, for all his rhetoric about liberal democracy, seized authority as a war president with the “passion of an autocrat,” running roughshod over civil liberties. Waging War From the Oval Office 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Many prisoners, when they are released, are disenfranchised — essentially voiceless in a democracy. In ‘Us,’ the Tethered Lives That Prisoners Would Recognize 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Chanting "Hell No, DNC, we won't vote for Hillary" and "This is what democracy looks like," the marchers headed from City Hall down Broad Street. The Latest: Hollywood stars hold climate rally ahead of DNC 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

“It is indisputable that our democracy is better off thanks to Snowden,” said American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero in a statement this week. As a source — and a patriot — Edward Snowden deserves a presidential pardon 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Voting is an important part of a democracy, but it wasn’t something the Founding Fathers included in the Constitution. To win a presidential election, getting the most votes isn’t always enough 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

As director, Farmiga is a strong believer in cinematic democracy, allowing the other actors to seize the center of the action and the frame. Higher Ground: When God Doesn't Talk Back 2011-08-25T07:05:00Z

Not only has the BJP eroded India’s democracy and systematically discriminated against minorities, it has incited violence and murder. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z

A democracy of taste remains a thought experiment. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z

But his general pessimism about the world that lay in wait in the 21st century now looks remarkably prescient, at least next to the Pollyannaish forecasts of techno-optimists, democracy promoters and globalization enthusiasts. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

From there, it opens into a more female-centric view of early America, highlighting the flesh-and-blood women who helped define liberty, freedom, democracy and other concepts so often depicted by allegorical female figures. Dolley Madison and Her Peers Ran Their Own ‘Pussy-Hat’ Brigade 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

And in a democracy power comes from being elected, from our votes at a ballot box. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

It urges young people to revive the ideal of resistance to the Nazis by peacefully resisting the “international dictatorship of the financial markets” and defending the “values of modern democracy.” At 93, Former Resistance Fighter Goads France to Outrage 2011-03-09T10:30:05Z

He added that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who called the marriage decision “a threat to American democracy” in his dissent, “sent his regrets.” On Love: Glenn Hennessey & Steve Kogut 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Like the Founding Fathers he wrote about, David McCullough stood for reason, enlightenment, education and incorruptible democracy. Perspective | David McCullough helped America understand itself 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

Germany, on the other hand, increasingly appears to be the strongest remaining bastion of liberal democracy. The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

And, rather more fundamentally, we do – kind of – live in a democracy. Actually, Mr Cameron, happiness is not being asked if we are happy 2010-11-21T00:08:00Z

We have our democracy, and the settlers are a certain percentage of the country. American Evangelicals, Israeli Settlers and a Skeptical Filmmaker 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy,” said Lyndon Johnson, in his nationally televised address to a joint session of Congress on March 15, 1965. REVIEW: 'Selma': The Film of the Year — But 1965 or 2014? 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

“The only way a diverse democracy can work is through both acknowledging and honoring our differences.” Onstage in ‘An American Tail,’ a Family’s Jewishness Comes to the Fore 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

“But I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.” Clooneys to attend a VIP fundraiser for Clinton – and Sanders fans are outraged 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Here’s what I experienced when I jumped into the trenches of our democracy a few weeks ago to register voters in Pennsylvania. What I experienced when I went out to register voters in Pennsylvania 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

In many ways, the system is the same as it has always been in America: technically flawed, often unjust, and essential to the country’s precarious claim to democracy. This Is What Democracy Looked Like 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

They are essential to the preservation of American democracy. First Person: Why Department Stores Are Vital – First Person 2012-11-23T22:09:35Z

This is a triumph of open democracy, but for the government it feels like fodder for racists who wish to see them fail. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

But Toobin’s larger argument is that Trump’s attacks on democracy will grow only more extreme in the months to come. Why the Mueller Investigation Failed 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

She encourages everyone else to find “their” national park – what she calls “the open spaces of our democracy” -- to take part in the celebration. Terry Tempest Williams thinks, breathes and writes deeply in our national parks 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The idea is to provide a dark commentary on power and the illusion of democracy. Massive Attack v Adam Curtis – review 2013-07-05T00:48:25Z

After Spain’s return to democracy, Mr. de Lucía increasingly spent time outside the country, often teaming up with leading American jazz players. Paco de Lucía, Flamenco Guitarist, Dies at 66 2014-02-26T15:51:58Z

This is democracy in action, and we should probably lower the voting age to 4½ . Perspective | ‘Old Town Road’ is a smash. Will it mutate into ‘Baby Shark’? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

We’re living in a time when democracy is in retreat, but I go back a step. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Still, he hopes that even those whose dissident credentials are less than sterling might learn a thing or two about democracy by attending his meetings. A Chinese Revolutionary, Reinventing Himself in American Exile 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

In lively fashion, the book surveyed the history and examined the mechanisms of a system the authors described as “one of the occupational hazards of democracy.” Susan Tolchin, Political Scientist Who Foresaw Tide of Voter Anger, Dies at 75 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

That idea of “deep democracy” is in “Tao of Glass.” An ‘Obsession’ With Philip Glass Inspires a Director’s Memory Play 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Greenspan shows him becoming a militant and dedicated Communist once he perceived the threat to democracy posed by Adolf Hitler and his storm troopers. The Spy Who Handed America’s Nuclear Secrets to the Soviets 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

But he was not wrong to worry over democracy’s tendency to enlist art for its own ends, and he was not wrong to call for artists themselves to resist it. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Mary says that American democracy will not if he gets a second term. All in the Family Dynamics: Donald Trump’s Niece on the President’s Clan 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

In its own gory way, the piece takes the viewer back to the birth of modern democracy, to the French Revolution, where thousands died under the blade of the guillotine in the name of freedom. Daniel Joseph Martinez offers a front-row seat to a famous artistic murder -- starring himself 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Its repeal laid the foundation for what we're now seeing, which is the crumbling of liberal democracy. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

It’s really about the destruction of the middle class over these last 30 years or however long, and, as Robert Reich has said, if you destroy the middle class you destroy the democracy. 'Laughter is the great unifier' – behind the incredible life of Molly Ivins 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

“I believe all of us, in the work that we do, have a role to play in the continuation of our great democracy,” he wrote in that email. Publishers are reeling from Trump's win, but the news is not all bad 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The history is told through the eyes of their daughter Hafsat Abiola, a Harvard-educated crusader for human rights and democracy who now leads a movement to dismantle the country’s patriarchal structure. Human Rights Watch Film Festival, the 25th Edition 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

“Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” I marched with my daughter and got arrested — and I’m proud 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

With the rise of fascism, Mann’s ambivalent acceptance of democracy became full-throated support. Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

We often forget that a modern, pluralist, liberal democracy like America is “not a fate but a project.” What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

In an era rife with disinformation — and American democracy teetering on a precipice — that’s the wrong place to be. Perspective | It’s high time for media to enter the No Kellyanne Zone — and stay there 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Last October, he gave a public lecture on the history of the race concept and its problematic connections to "democracy" and "human rights" in the West. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

“She tells the students, ‘Here’s democracy and here’s communism. Don't tape our teachers: Why surreptitious recording in the classroom isn't OK 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

For a guy whose leadership philosophy is rooted in the idea of every individual’s contribution being vital, it seems appropriate he would become immersed in a project so intrinsically about democracy. ‘Hamilton’ director Thomas Kail, at the height of his powers 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

I think over the last few years, a lot of us have felt that we're losing our country, have felt like we're witnessing the demise of democracy. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

Each of these books sees disinformation as poison in the well of democracy. Misdirection, Fake News and Lies: The Best Books to Read on Disinformation 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

“An inauguration is a tribute to the people and democracy, not a person,” he says. Trump inaugural chairman promises a celebration of ‘harmony, inclusion and democracy’ 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

The 77-year-old Moyers said his upcoming show will feature interviews with diverse voices and the goal of contributing "to the conversation of democracy." Bill Moyers returning to weekly TV in January 2011-08-23T14:28:08Z

The first season is about negotiating that line between a military dictatorship or a democracy, which is relevant today.” Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z

We did nothing as democracy was tugged from under the feet of those in the Middle East and north Africa, arguably because we saw ourselves as the beneficiaries of these crimes. Alif the Unseen: speculative fiction meets the Arab spring 2012-12-13T09:58:14Z

By the time we finished the film, these ideas of whether there are limits to democracy were everywhere, in the States and with Brexit. From ‘The Lion King’ to Angelina Jolie, Chiwetel Ejiofor Has a Lot to Talk About 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

This was democracy’s version of a reality competition’s audition rounds, except with few opportunities for solo riffs and lots more mic battling. Hot mics, yikes: NBC's first Democratic debate became a reality TV audition round gone sideways 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

The questions that Mann pondered during his California exile—What is the future of democracy? At Thomas Mann’s House, the German President Defends Democracy 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The tracking of the fight at points segues into a commentary on the state of journalism – and the threat to democracy that the increasing closure of news organizations presents. Dark Money: how a documentary became a political thriller 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

The wonderful thing about democracy is that everyone counts, everybody has a voice. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

I spent Christmas with a group of Syrian activists, CCSD, who desperately tried to convey the message that the original values of the revolution – freedom, democracy, equality – are still very much alive for most Syrians. Cycling the Middle East: the kindness of strangers and the desperation of refugee camps 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

If you’ve ever groped a crowd-surfer, you don’t deserve to live in a democracy, let alone attend a concert in one. How not to be a jerk at a concert 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to imagine a political institution less suited to a 21st-century liberal democracy than the Electoral College. Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Past and present marginalization, slavery and violence to particular minority communities remain central to institutions of American democracy – whether universities or federally funded historical archives. How the “guerrilla archivists” saved history – and are doing it again under Trump 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

“When I talk about my ’80s, I’m talking about democracy, but when I’m talking about now, Spanish people are very disappointed,” he said. Pedro Almodóvar Explains His Connection to the Panama Papers 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Everything that I wanted to do with the country is gone, so freedom and democracy are not synonymous with capitalism. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

And I am grateful for those who serve in our armed forces and diplomatic missions at home and abroad – brave men and women defending liberty, advancing democracy, combating evil, and keeping good people safe. Here's What John Kerry Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Anonymous comments once embodied the promise of the Internet, the supposed democracy of the place, and their defenders say that privacy is what we must prize the most. Internet trolls can’t help themselves 2012-08-01T21:00:00Z

To those interested in forms of direct democracy or the commons, Yugoslavia remains an interesting outlier. The Unrepeatable Architectural Moment of Yugoslavia’s “Concrete Utopia” 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

"But I adamantly try to believe that we live in a healthy democracy," says Voss. The comedian making South Africa's World Cup a laughing matter 2010-06-07T12:42:00Z

On Jan. 21, the day of the Women’s March, democracy looked like it was shuddering at the sight of itself. Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Real and lasting democracy emerges from within the singular context of each Arab country and cannot be imposed by outside intervention or manipulation. After Tunisia: Nouri Gana on Tunisia 2011-01-28T13:00:04Z

Well, I think Americans lack imagination as to what can happen to our own democracy. Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

A strong investment in science communication should be key to the running of any modern democracy. Cuts at the Science Museum Group: what should be done? 2013-06-06T09:48:08Z

And that’s happening geopolitically — 2019 was the first year in a hundred with cumulative GDP of the autocracies greater than that of the democracies. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

The festival, she continued, “tempts the cynical observer to get all misty-eyed about the artistic fruits of democracy in America, even as the works critique the maladies of society.” John Reilly, 74, a Champion of Documentary Video, Dies 2013-08-12T02:12:58Z

By swiftly moving from city to city and between moments that portray our politics in action, "American Selfie" becomes a depiction of capitalism strangling democracy. Alexandra Pelosi's unfiltered "American Selfie" gives a complex picture of how we look to each other 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

By contrast, ethnic democracies don’t assimilate, homogenize or try to enforce the neutrality of the public domain. Why Are American Jews Falling Out of Love With Israel? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Autocrats and their supporters exploited the populist backlash against weak liberal democracies. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

I would like countries to become democracies, not plutocracies. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Internal shake-ups eventually followed as Denmark shifted its form of government from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

In Western democracies in the 20th century, the creative class has tended to lean to the left and to find its outraged voice when conservatives are in power. Riff: Riff: The Iron Lady as Anti-Muse 2011-09-25T04:33:02Z

America’s mission was to push other states to protect human rights and to help them transition to democracy. A Foreign Policy Realist Challenges America’s Zeal for Intervention 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

In fact, there were all sorts of issues — women’s rights, workers’ rights, and across Europe, democracy and the legitimacy of monarchy – all pulsing away. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes Overcomes His Scruples and Looks Back at Season 2 of 'Downton Abbey' 2012-02-20T04:47:01Z

Pinochet's removal paved the way for the country's return to democracy and more than two decades of economic prosperity. Garcia Bernal feels Chile's pain in latest film 2012-07-31T03:32:11Z

They championed a democracy meant to be, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “applicable to all men and all times.” Why Are American Jews Falling Out of Love With Israel? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The pieces here do much more than rehash statements about the press as a defender of democracy. Two New Audiobooks Inspire Teenagers to Make Real Change 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Tillmans runs many of these campaigns through Between Bridges, a foundation he grounded in 2017 to promote “humanism, solidarity and the advancement of democracy.” Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

This week's announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy only further throws into question whether the law will be able to protect our democracy. Forget civility: On “The Good Fight,” “Luke Cage” and “Dietland,” resistance means go... 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Good Enemy” is a mélange of a play — about oppression and democracy, cowardice and bravery, love and loneliness. ‘Good Enemy’ Review: Finding Second Chances 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

My goodness, it is: There's a demand for democracy. Review: Bway's 'Cinderella' filled with freshness 2013-03-04T02:33:11Z

But what is going on right now, he also said, is a fight not just for democracy — it's "a fight for religious freedom as well." Ukrainian-American pastor in VA shares haunting image of people huddled in Ukraine basement 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Detroit of course represents America’s vanished industrial past; it was where Henry Ford built his empire and where the “arsenal of democracy” that defeated fascism was forged. “Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved? 2012-09-07T17:45:00Z

Whereas “Surviving Autocracy” places Trump in the context of contemporary attacks on democracy in other countries, another recent book assesses his danger to the Republic in the light of American history. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Morrison died only days after two mass shootings, which are not only a regular fixture of American life, but also a recurring reminder of our political paralysis and the corruption of our democracy. Perspective | Obituaries are the only redemptive news anymore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Masciotra’s words stymie the very conversation he wants on our democracy and associated role of the military. Our militaristic leaders are the problem: “Railing against vets in the face of this madness is cowardice” 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

The compromise reached by the Constitution helped to preserve the Union, but at an egregious cost to democracy. How the Census Changed America 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

The democracy Mr. Eggleston has in mind is the equivalence of all objects before the camera. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

She was starting a fellowship with Open Society Foundations, a group dedicated to civil rights, democracy and government accountability. For Two Frequent Fliers, a Trip Down the Matrimonial Runway 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Highlights include "Rouge Parole," set in the tumult of revolutionary Tunisia, which charts the expulsion of its president and the country's first steps toward democracy. Arab films showcase turbulent, redemptive year 2011-10-24T15:37:51Z

Even liberation from Europe didn't lead to democracy, and land is still the big issue in much of Latin America today. TV review: Christopher and His Kind 2011-03-20T21:04:00Z

The people have spoken and not on behalf of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights. ‘R.M.N.’ Review: A Bleak Diagnosis for Romania 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

It is sure to captivate readers seeking a deeper understanding of how public opinion gradually shifted as America moved from bystander to combatant in the war to preserve democracy. Book tells of fight over intervention 2013-03-25T15:52:08Z

“She is a leader on so many issues — fighting for our democracy, passing common-sense gun reform, and ensuring racial justice,” the statement continued. An underwhelming end to Oprah’s Dr. Oz drama 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

All of this behind the benign mask of democracy. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

The 44th president says he wants it to serve not as a monument to himself but to bigger ideals — democracy, citizenship, civic engagement. Barack Obama is building a library — and grappling again with Chicago politics 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

A labor lawyer and former congressional candidate reflects on his hilariously failed run for Chicago’s Fifth District in 2008 and shares invigorating ideas on how to rebuild America’s fractured democracy. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“It was one of the many contributions of Iraq to the world, and in this case, to democracy itself,” she added. Visa Ban Leaves Artists in Limbo, and Institutions Perplexed 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

But, overrun by its enemies, starving, and with the ideology of democracy itself in question, the Athenians took a more fundamentalist view. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z

The French Revolution ended in a dictatorship, but the Haitian Revolution ended in a pure democracy. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

Identity Puzzles From U.S. and Iran More than ever, tension among forces of cosmopolitan democracy, religious traditionalism and militaristic order roil the Middle East. | Art: Identity Puzzles From U.S. and Iran 2013-08-30T21:29:09Z

It teaches me humility, the great democracy of each time having to start over. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

They cannot comprehend that in a democracy it's a two-way street, buddy! "South Park": The controversy continues 2010-04-29T00:20:00Z

Yet Taylor, a lifelong activist, says that she also always felt there was “a contradiction” inherent in democracy that puzzled her. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

"It's not a democracy ... Barbara Broccoli decides who is going to be the next Bond, end of story," he said. Sam Mendes: It's time for a new James Bond director 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

In “Freedom Club,” a new play at the Live Arts Festival here in the city in which American democracy took shape, the darker underpinnings of human liberty are considered with a grim cackle. Critic?s Notebook: Nothing Left to Lose, or Too Dark to Contemplate 2010-09-07T22:17:00Z

“It is a metaphor for democracy; it wants you to walk around it and check it out.” Looking at Where Chicago Works 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Any democracy coupled with unfettered capitalism will not, by definition, be a healthy one; the mechanisms of this democracy will invariably be corrupted by the forces of power and information asymmetry. Neil deGrasse Tyson gets democracy all wrong: We don’t deserve the one we get — we get the one elites gives us 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z

“And the ideas of democracy that are discussed in this show are the ones that are discussed in this country.” ‘Camelot,’ Beloved but Befuddling, Gets the Aaron Sorkin Treatment 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

The ostensible reason Gritty memes and jokes flew across the internet, of course, was the lengthy fight over vote-counting came down, as many predicted it would, to the city where American democracy was invented. Thank you, Gritty, for rallying with us to save our democracy 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

“His work has helped fortify American democracy for decades.” Bob Woodward to Receive PEN Literary Service Award 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Privilege handed on by the accident of birth just doesn’t seem to fit,” with the idea of democracy, he notes. 10 Questions for Ian McKellen, The Hobbit‘s Gandalf the Grey 2012-12-13T13:06:06Z

It is in a democracy that overthrows these implicitly natural hierarchies, Sullivan warns, that “the would-be tyrant would often seize his moment.” Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

“I think you can boil it all down, actually, to sort of a quality, like a democracy in all things … We’re all interdependent.” Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

The new film's title is a reference to a comment made in 1990 by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who described the PRI's 71-year grip on power as "the perfect dictatorship" camouflaged as democracy. Mexican filmmaker Luis Estrada's satirical agenda hits home 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The six-part series, premiering Sunday at 10 p.m., arrives at a time when the conflict between major belief systems is impacting not only American politics but the fundamentals upon which our democracy is founded. Failed conversion: “Believer with Reza Aslan” wants to touch faith, but embraces sensationalism instead 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Contrary to popular opinion, our democracy hasn't gotten close to hitting rock bottom yet. Recommended reading for April: New must-read books to liven up long shutdown days 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a departure from the rhetoric that typically surrounds any mingling of jazz and state, a story of democracy, improvisation and American exceptionalism. Global Flavors and Asides to Obamas at White House Jazz Gala 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

In a normal democracy, he says, the response would be to send someone from the pension fund administration to debate the allegations, instead of suing an “ordinary citizen.” Singapore blogger loses everything for criticizing prime minister 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

Its failure to embrace arming the disparate rebel movement may reflect doubts in Washington and elsewhere about the makeup of the insurgent forces and their commitment to democracy. Hillary Clinton says Syrian military may oust President Assad 2012-02-25T03:47:00Z

And what is your guidance on the topic, especially given the precarious state of our democracy and the rampant spread of mis- and disinformation? Perspective | Miss Manners: Rules about difficult topics exist for a reason 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Davies, a political economist, argues that democracy is in peril because crowd-driven emotions have displaced rational thinking in an age dominated by the internet and social media. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

If Reagan was so interested in seeing democracy flourish in the Caribbean, Lorde wondered, why did the U.S. government support Haiti’s Jean-Claude Duvalier and his repressive regime? Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

It was the Amazonian democracy sequences, where female leaders conducted authoritative, intelligent discussions of politics and strategy. Perspective | A lot of women just won their elections, and hopefully someday this will stop being remarkable 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

That doesn’t serve the public or the democracy. Obama promised transparency. But his administration is one of the most secretive 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Poll workers are praised for their contribution to democracy; voter suppression is condemned as treason; the election is eventually celebrated as a sacred cornerstone of the nation. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 8: Priorities and Principles 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Still, Hannah-Jones said the backlash to her work is evidence that the U.S. is approaching a make-or-break crossroads on its global standing as a democracy. The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ warning on democracy 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Even today, said Maya Jasanoff, a professor of history at Harvard University, constitutional monarchy may sometimes provide a more durable framework for the protection of multiethnic rights than republican democracy. Amid Diamond Jubilee Fever, Scholars Reflect on Monarchy 2012-05-28T16:54:59Z

When mainstream magazines and book authors now broach a possible end to American democracy, this show returns to its dawn — and evokes the achievement of American self-governance through astonished, worshipful European eyes. A George Washington Monument, Rediscovered in Fragile Plaster 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

As members of the military, our spouses, our children, and in some cases our own selves, sign up in support of this great democracy. Don’t speak for my military family: A veteran’s wife on Colin Kaepernick and the Nike boycott 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Few people in the midst of the post-Civil War Gilded Age had a better feel for American democracy than Adams. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

What kind of democracy would we be if we hadn't figured out a way around that inconvenient prerequisite? "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan does the robot 2010-04-27T12:28:00Z

Fresh exiles from the Taliban’s takeover two years ago, the violent end to a brief dance with democracy. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

Images of the riot showed chaos, but there is also evidence of coordinated attacks on American democracy. My grandfather was a Nazi. Our family's story of complicity shows where the road to extremism leads 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Distinguishing between fact and opinion, as well as between fact and fiction, is a crucial skill that allows democracy to work, Adams said. Worried you can’t tell real news from fake? Slow down and be skeptical. 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

These are undoubtedly dark days in our democracy. Parkland survivors give us hope: Youth activism can save us 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

“In a healthy functioning democracy, it’s the job of politicians to seek out opinions from every side,” he said. Perspective | Trump’s White House doesn’t support the arts. Nancy Pelosi is rallying the cause instead. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

The Tripods Trilogy makes the case that sustaining democracy is not so simple. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The lyrics wonder if democracy is facing an “extinction event”: “A big mouth says the people they don’t want to be free.” U2 Releases ‘Songs of Experience.’ Cynicism Not Included. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

The fragmented world of the cold war was more resilient to shocks, and also more hospitable to social democracy, than the world that ensued. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z

He rises early each morning to row the Potomac past misty symbols of democracy, and works late each night to ferret out the encrypted international banking transactions of overseas terrorists. Review | The blandly reassuring ‘Jack Ryan’ gets better when there’s less Jack Ryan in it 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

How, she questioned, could America promote democracy abroad while stifling minorities at home? Ahead of her time 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

It's easy to be cynical, and I do think that our democracy and politics are at some sort of precipice right now. "Voting is important but insufficient": Scott Warren on youth power in politics 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

In a democracy, especially in the phase of democracy where we are now, that’s interesting material.” A Machiavellian Opera for Trump-Era Issues of Truth and Lies 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Jihadists developed a dubious doctrine of vicarious liability: democracy, which they declare is an abomination for Muslims, taints all citizens of Western countries with the sins of their rulers because they vote them into office. Men of war 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

"The reality is your access to democracy shouldn't depend on your county of residence," Abrams said. Meghan McCain’s legacy at “The View” exposes real-life problems with across-the-aisle "friendships" 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

If “communism” is too laden with historical failures and semantic difficulties, are “socialism” or “social democracy” better alternatives? Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

“When season one came out people called it ‘the end of democracy.’ 'South Park' Creators: We Came Up With Pokemon Go First 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

Extolling the play as a masterpiece about power and political violence, director Oskar Eustis persuasively defended his interpretation as a warning about “what happens when you try to preserve democracy by nondemocratic means.” Julius Caesar in our times 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The desserts continued to suffer, from American occupation and through dictatorship masked as democracy. How this ancient Korean dessert is making a comeback 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Touching on issues of race and class, democracy and civil rights, and much more,” said Obama, “we believe each of these productions won’t just entertain, but will educate, connect and inspire us all.” Hillary and Chelsea Clinton to form film and TV production company 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Archbishop Borys Gudziak says Ukrainians are keeping their faith in religion and democracy alive as the country continues to battle the Russian invasion. Ukrainian bishop says Ukraine is keeping faith in religion and freedom 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

India and Japan in promoting democracy and good governance in Afghanistan. US embassy cables: How India can help stabilise Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:33Z

He saw it as a period in which we could break away from supporting authoritarian regimes to actually create a functioning democracy in the heart of the Arab world. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z

It became communist after World War Two but embraced democracy in 1990 and aspires to join the European Union. Ruined Albanian churches could be tourist magnet if repaired: experts 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Does establishing a film culture really matter in a precarious new democracy with so many other pressing needs? Lights, camera, revolution: the birth of Libyan cinema after Gaddafi's fall 2012-10-01T18:01:01Z

In our democracy, which is far from ideal, we need to hold the justices accountable. "Deadlocked" director Dawn Porter: "This very radical conservative Supreme Court is not an accident" 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z

I liked the idea of the conventions of democracy that we take for granted just no longer being present. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Its top temple rivals the Parthenon — not a surprise since Agrigento was one of the richest Greek colonies and a thriving democracy 2,500 years ago. Celebrating Sicily: Italy at its most extreme 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

A certain amount of friction – in the bedroom as in a democracy – is a good thing, a beneficial thing. Getting off (line): I’m giving up online porn, and so should you 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

That would be okay under normal circumstances, he told me, but “this situation is not normal — you have a sustained attack on the democracy and the news media.” Perspective | Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The third warning sign, and it’s a necessary companion of the second, is a growing impatience with the rule of law and with democracy. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

They express a rejection of his agenda and of what they see as his degradation of our democracy. Lessons in resistance from MLK, the “conservative militant” 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

“And it’s a rough one. It’s not a question of whether the storm will end but when it will end. How much of our democracy will be saved?” Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Thomas Jefferson, a more democratic thinker, called information the “currency of democracy.” We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Candles glow from recesses in the walls of this elegant, clean-lined set — a classically contemplative monument to democracy, and the shell for Mr. Nelson’s memorial to Socrates. Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The workout—first of all, because it funded a statewide organization for economic democracy in California—was well worth it. Jane Fonda Is Paying Close Attention 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

And all the way down, David, I was thinking, Everything you’ve been doing is basically baloney, because underlying everything that you do on politics is the belief that we live in a democracy. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

If the definition of democracy is that it can spring ballot-box surprises, then Iran has a democracy. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy – review 2013-03-01T17:30:02Z

Lewis frequently makes the call for Good Trouble but admits, in the film, to a deep fear: that one day he will wake up, and American democracy will be gone. 'We've made too much progress to slow down': tracking John Lewis's long fight 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Still, at the first meeting of his American Revolution class after the 2016 election, Parkinson found himself pivoting to talk about Enlightenment values, and the fragility of democracy. The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

Big corporations are threatening democracy and homogenizing culture. Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z

To some of the obvious ones, add this: In November the United States was added to a list of “backsliding democracies” by a Swedish institute. America slouches into a new pandemic year 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

I mean the idea that, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western-style liberal democracy was going to triumph everywhere and ideology would give way to technocratic solutions to all our problems and so on. Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Frederick Wiseman, one of America’s greatest, most generous chroniclers, brings you into Boston’s City Hall, where men and women help make a city — and democracy — work. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Writing a book was not a democracy, or else he noted that Joffrey would’ve died a lot earlier in the series. George R.R. Martin: I’m not going to write gay sex scenes just for the sake of doing it 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

So the quote on the back of the poster is to remind us about the roots of democracy. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

At its best, in a democracy the Fourth Estate provides a check on power by holding elected officials and others accountable to the people. Philosopher Susan Neiman: "The president of our country is evil" 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

As Orwell taught, it isn't the labels – Christianity, socialism, Islam, democracy, two legs bad, four legs good, the works – that are definitive, but the acts done in their names. My hero: George Orwell by Margaret Atwood 2013-01-18T20:00:04Z

Now he has retreated to a place chiefly concerned not with democracy or planetary survival but what he calls “joy”: attending virtual concerts, playing virtual chess and head-nodding at colleagues in virtual offices. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

A marionette Socrates, aided by his wife and students, uses abstract parables, paradoxes and, of course, the Socratic method and Socratic irony to examine epistemological and moral topics like justice, democracy and liberty. Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z

He’s not diagnostic—he doesn’t rise to the issue of whether democracy or its perversion is at fault. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

An extended visit to a diverse, complicated neighborhood in Queens, the film is an immersive celebration of democracy, which they used to say in the ’60s was “one long meeting.” New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

I think an open democracy empowers us to simultaneously believe what we see on the news, and in things they're maybe not telling us. Preview: ACT Theatre to stage Steven Dietz's 'Yankee Tavern' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

This country needs unified leadership behind our values of tolerance, democracy and mutual respect — and of course we need to stop gun violence. Gabrielle Giffords on standing up and speaking up for what’s right 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

“I love democracy more than I hate the drum circle,” read one sign in the park. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

You cannot go on pretending that you're the only harbingers of democracy. After Tunisia: Nouri Gana on Tunisia 2011-01-28T13:00:04Z

No. I understood him as a man who believed in promoting democracy in other countries, and I played him as somebody who thought he was doing the right thing. Eddie Marsan: ‘My wife says Twitter is my midlife crisis’ 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z

To me, it was also a reassurance that, in certain quarters, participatory democracy is alive and well. Review: The Joys of a Conductorless Chamber Performance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

The true culture war of our age is the war for democracy, and Ukrainian culture, past and present, has become a vital line of defense for the whole liberal order. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

I think we should be in favor of democracy for its own sake, whether or not it promotes economic growth. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

With restrictions on voting, we are undermining our democracy. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

The survival of a moderate conservatism, a conservatism that accepts and is comfortable with modernity and liberal democracy, is indispensable to the stability of our polity as a whole. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Political behavior includes voting and social movements, which together impact the levers of power and decision-making in a democracy. Philosopher Susan Neiman: "The president of our country is evil" 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Is that an honorable contribution to society, as most of the family members believe, or is doing harm always unacceptable, even when fascists threaten democracy? The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

But as we now know from our own real-life version, the Russians are still villainous, and may not have required a complicated plot with a brainwashed assassin to undo American democracy. The Manchurian President: A classic Hollywood thriller tells us more about America than any history book 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

"So whether I'm losing money or not, that is a secondary issue compared to ensuring the strength of democracy." Elon Musk and "Tucker Carlson Tonight": A distracting match made in misinformation paradise 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

The Commune's savage suppression in May 1871 by France's fledgling Third Republic buttressed the international socialist movement's contention that bourgeois democracies were as hostile to workers' rights as any monarch. 'Massacre' a sobering chronicle of the Paris Commune 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps sharing their grandfather's low opinion of democracy, the Caton sisters crossed the Atlantic to Regency England to infiltrate the aristocracy. Sisters of Fortune by Jehanne Wake - review 2011-08-19T21:55:03Z

"And it's `Go back to your second-class citizen status, democracy is not here for you, you are not civilized and you are not ready for it." TV host's black war posters focus of Pa. exhibit 2013-06-01T15:36:11Z

On Monday evening, Caesar was offstage; and yet questions about the status of democracy were the production’s omnipresent theme. The Public Theatre at Fifty: “A Machine for Making Community” 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The event focused on Rwanda, Congo and Nigeria, and speakers debated issues of democracy, economics, the environment and regional cooperation. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

Liberal grammarians would tell us we live in a democracy, not a kingdom of antiquated rules. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

This cozy, old-boy arrangement is not explicitly endorsed, but the logic of “The Front Runner” identifies it with the finest traditions of American democracy itself. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Writers are analysing the political proceedings to see how the outcome will affect the arts, and wondering whether the theatre can have any effect on our democracy. Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z

Our current media climate, Reiner believes is indicative of the diseased state of our democracy. “We’re seeing a creeping rise of autocracy”: Rob Reiner sounds the warning on Trump and truth 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

She interviews parliamentarians who for the most part are feudal landowners with an interest in perpetuating the status quo rather developing a real democracy. Books of The Times: Conflicts and Contradictions of Pakistan 2011-08-08T12:00:00Z

She was a girl situated on the threshold of a new era, one defined by extremes—the nadir of democracy and the onset of the Progressive Era. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

"We expect a little bit more from Brazil, it being a democracy," Cameron said. 'Avatar' director lauds ruling on Brazilian dam 2010-04-15T16:14:00Z

Disarming enemy militaries was the start; consolidating democracy abroad was the goal. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

"I wanted to show the world the people who sacrificed their life for democracy," said Loznitsa over coffee at the Majestic Hotel. At Cannes, real-world events take stage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Putin no doubt sees it as payback, since the West promoted dangerous ideas about democracy and human rights in his own country. Are We Traveling the ‘Road to Unfreedom’? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

At a time when many are questioning the future of democracy, it is worth remembering how important and precious these things are. Why Constitutions Are the Safeguards of Freedom 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

But more democracy does not necessarily lead to more respect for human rights. Is Globalization Drawing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart? 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

“The End of History” proposed that markets and democracy were part-and-parcel of a single triumphant formula. The end of harmony 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Investment in higher education has always paid off for the United States as it does in the social democracies. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z

At a time when protest is once again a spark for reform, it’s worth seeing it in the light of “Selma,” which offers crucial lessons in democracy. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

“In a month of harrowing news, this development is still almost incalculably bad for American democracy,” Pepinsky said. Perspective | The media’s eagerness to discount the ‘blue wave’ feeds a dangerous problem 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

In that sense, television’s court jesters are helping to keep the blood of democracy circulating. John Oliver: ‘Maybe Brexit is a great idea. There’s absolutely nothing to suggest that’ 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

"When the minority is silenced, justice cannot prevail and democracy suffers." Silenced Mich. lawmaker to do 'Vagina Monologues' 2012-06-18T20:52:07Z

With the midterm elections and the fall movie season looming on the horizon, our chief film critics ponder the complicated relationship between cinema and democracy and wonder about the future of both. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Suharto was overthrown 15 years ago after three decades of tight-fisted rule, and memories of the killings were quietly buried in a country still new to freedom of expression and democracy. Film Gives Indonesia View of Bloody, Obscured Past 2013-10-04T13:50:53Z

"Infotainment news programs help to condition a public to yell a lot, but spend the weekend drinking and watching games," Saltzman told Reuters, saying the trend is bad for democracy. Fox News Channel marks 15 years, still the underdog 2011-10-03T18:54:26Z

He calls McConnell “the most destructive force in American democracy,” a conniver at personal destruction and a night porter furiously intent on making the rich richer. ‘Mitch, Please!’ Tours Kentucky and Roasts a Senator 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

It takes me a moment to digest the fact that he is saying that, in our supposedly mature democracy, the chancellor's wife's views have been a factor in England's arts budget. Why politicians fight shy of campaigning on the arts 2010-04-28T05:00:00Z

I know it's not, it's not 50 percent, it's not a democracy, because hurt feelings and offense outweigh not being offended. “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss: “The Trump years have been a shot in the arm for the show” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

However, in a democracy, we get the politicians—and the government—we deserve. Combativeness Doesn't Equal Seriousness about Entitlement Reform 2012-01-26T04:17:11Z

“In China, words like ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ are given negative undertones,” she said. In “One Child Nation,” Nanfu Wang Confronts China’s History, and Her Own 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Because every page in this book gainsays his claim in the most forceful fashion imaginable that democracy is now decisive in defining Russia's political direction. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

Now, as the Capitol’s security gave way, the bitter reality of America’s civic tragedy finally materialized in the “citadel” of democracy, as Biden referred to it in a brief, somber statement. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

This is an ancient institution operating at the heart of a supposed democracy - not drawing attention to these contradictions is central to its survival. Meghan and Harry’s Oprah interview: why "royal confessionals" threaten the monarchy 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

It’s certainly true that censorship is damaging to democracy, but the damage is taking place in the opposite direction. A normalization of violence: how cyberbullying began and how to fight it 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

It’s also a moment where you teach the meaning of democracy. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

If people recognize now what this has to do with January 6, if they recognize now what this has to do with the deterioration of our democracy, then it will have been a good thing. An architect of critical race theory: ‘We cannot allow all of the lessons from the civil rights movement forward to be packed up and put away for storage’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Tomorrow night, the adversaries will battle under the Capitol Dome for the soul of democracy. Style Invitational Week 1425: Picture this — a cartoon caption contest 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

“The new generation, born after the fall of the Soviet Union, is playing a big role in the new democracy,” Ms. Ashakharoyan said. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Klepper warned of "Americans' lack of imagination as to what can happen to our own democracy." Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Vice President Harris’s swearing in was a Bechdel test of American democracy, and after nearly 250 years, we finally passed it. Perspective | American democracy finally passes the Bechdel test 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

And I think the basis of our democracy is to have an educated electorate, right? Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z

He insisted on a “shared destiny” with people in Western democracies, presenting his fate as “a warning, a challenge, a danger, or a lesson” for them. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

So I’m going to remind people that without participation in our democracy, our rule of law, our government, our Constitution will remain in peril. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

"I don't think that participating in democracy is a joke." Comedian Colbert lampoons campaign finance laws 2011-06-30T20:18:31Z

The channel's election night coverage was titled "Fox News Democracy 2020" – not "election," not "vote," democracy. Fox News was in a "purple haze" on election night until Trump's wild claims gave them clarity 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

That history, lending romance to traditions of participatory democracy, was one reason Ms. Gang inclined toward cordwood masonry, along with the beauty and performance of the wood, which, unprocessed, retains and collects carbon. The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Next to the poisoning of American democracy, the loss of handwritten letters seems like a negligible effect of social media, but it’s not. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

I worry about what the climate of scarcity and economic crisis is going to do to our culture and the fabric of our democracy. A new economic austerity could be ‘as life-threatening as the virus itself,’ says head of the National Domestic Workers Alliance 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

Until that point, “I never felt that the most powerful person in the world was going to be seeking to subvert the role of the free press in this democracy,” Baron said. Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Online commenting should have been the Internet generation’s contribution to democracy. This Life: Online Anonymity Breeds Contempt (and Meanness) 2010-04-22T00:03:00Z

Those two cities are seats of power in what Ruff calls the United Arab States, a prosperous bastion of democracy. 'The Mirage': Matt Ruff's novel of 9/11 role reversal 2012-02-02T21:03:04Z

To Mr. Graeber, the key is replacing what currently passes for democracy with a genuinely participatory system of the sort prefigured by the Occupy movement. Peter Thiel and David Graeber Debate Technology’s Future 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

These were all moments when he stepped outside of his role as host and worked to make our democracy stronger. Trevor Noah gives Fox News a free pass: The new “Daily Show” could be great for Ailes and Hannity, bad for America 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

“Equality of opportunity, fairness in democracy and justice in society.” ‘The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America,’ by Michael Eric Dyson 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

The best art is born from democracy | Jonathan Jones 3. Photographer Dorothy Bohm's best shot 2010-04-07T21:05:00Z

MacLehose took care not to antagonize China, promoting administrative efficiency and civic campaigns as a substitute for democracy. A Deeply Personal Look at the Past, Present and Future of Hong Kong 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The majestic Elgin Marbles, emblems of democracy, crowned a Greek temple built by a slave-owning culture. Can Art Ever Be Innocent? 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

In the intervening period, the western project in Afghanistan was something much more ambitious, involving the creation of a prosperous, stable democracy with significantly improved human rights for women and minorities. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan by Rajiv Chandrasekaran – review 2012-07-06T10:00:02Z

In the end, restoring the antislavery intent of the Constitution leaves a more perplexing question at the heart of American democracy. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

“What makes American business distinctive? On a national level, it’s the interplay of capitalism and democracy. On the personal level, it’s how do you balance your ambition and goals with the common good?” What can an old wooden cart teach us about American ingenuity? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

There is no way the Greek people will accept an austerity programme that renders democracy meaningless and condemns them to decades of poverty. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z

The army has been confined to military and strategic matters, as it should be in any true democracy. London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey's progress 2013-04-12T15:00:02Z

Genuine democracy enables ordinary people to break free from the conventions that limit their capacity to lead fulfilling lives. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z

As Egyptians saw themselves embarking on a new era of representative democracy, the ageing generals eased Mubarak from power in February 2011, subsequently styling themselves as the custodians of Egypt’s fledgling democracy. New early pregnancy blood tests can accurately tell paternity 2012-06-20T14:03:00Z

“Churchill made terrible mistakes as well as achieving great triumphs, but central to it all was a sense of doubt, and doubt is an important and vital factor of leadership, and democracy itself.” Winston Churchill of Darkest Hour a rebuke to Trump, says film's director 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

They were going to try to force a Western-style democracy into the Middle East that they would hope would magically proliferate and protect Israel. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Stay for the listless yet vital lesson in democracy. Review: Trumbo Is a Vital Lesson in Democracy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

In his Americans for the Arts lecture in 2017, Walker connected the arts directly to the vitality of American democracy. Perspective | A voice for the arts, and social justice, joins the National Gallery of Art board 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

"The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy," fumed the celebrity mogul. Donald Trump deletes parts of Twitter tirade 2012-11-07T17:33:33Z

As Doris wrote in “The Bully Pulpit,” our democracy unofficially depends on two major parties that can carry their own weight. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

Müller begins by acknowledging the widespread fear that “democracy is in crisis” before pointing out that few people who aren’t political philosophers have given any sustained thought to what democracy actually is. Democracy Is for Losers (and Why That’s a Good Thing) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

He is not willing to defend my way of life, my country, my Constitution, my democracy. Khizr Khan has more to say about Trump, the Constitution and our democracy 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

The gathering is open to anyone with something to strike, shake or scrape, but there’s a fine line between individuality and democracy. The rhythm of the city: The Meridian Hill Park drum circle evolves

So, his offer to step in and help with the election, the most important vehicle in our democracy, seems noble to me. Should I Let My Boyfriend Be a Poll Worker on Election Day? 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

“In 100 years from now they’ll think, ‘Wow, these people thought they lived in a democracy when it was controlled by the minority gender.’ Michael Moore: Meryl Streep should run for president 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

An unanswered question hangs over Larsson's writings here: what does a democratic society do with those who espouse the destruction of democracy? The Expo Files by Stieg Larsson? review 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z

The proposal aims to help pupils learn about the Bible's impact "on our history, language, literature and democracy" and will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the authorised version's publication, Gove said earlier this year. Richard Dawkins the arch-atheist backs Michael Gove's free Bible plan 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z

“Star Wars” --particularly the prequels--teaches us that that democracy is not a spectator sport. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Other parliamentary democracies tend to see it the same way. How the presidential campaign looks through the eyes of a foreign journalist 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

Taylor’s experience did get her thinking more about democracy. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

The State Department issued a strong rebuke to Turkey: Freedom of expression, including for speech and the media, strengthens democracy and needs to be protected, it said. Perspective | Trump’s threats against the press may be toothless. But they’re far from harmless. 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Images of the tangerine hairball became shorthand for Philly dragging Joe Biden across the line to victory, a fun joke about how democracy was saved by one of the proudly goofier cities in the country. Thank you, Gritty, for rallying with us to save our democracy 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

He devoured it, decided that "to be a poet was freedom itself" and went on to become his nation's preeminent living bard, a singer of democracy and reunification with North Korea. 2010-02-17T14:05:00Z

Or are they a distraction concocted by Luthor to discredit the man of steel by painting him as a threat to democracy and the rule of law? Five things we learned from the new Batman v Superman trailer 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

As James Wood wrote in a New Yorker review, 'Sometimes, the soft literary citizens of liberal democracy long for prohibition. Top 10 books on the ancient world 2010-09-29T12:08:00Z

In a democracy like ours the military is inexorably intertwined with society, and the military culture is a direct reflection of America writ large. Brad Taylor Has a Theory About What Makes for Good Thrillers 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

In recent years, Sheremeta said Ukrainians have mostly moved away from having a "Soviet mentality" as the country has seen more success with democracy and its market economy. Ukrainian professor recalls country's Independence Day in light of war: 'Ukraine will win' 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

My film is about the relationship of an individual to his or her democracy, and the trauma of losing that. 20 must-see documentaries to explain the world in 2020 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

“What I discovered as a child was that, God, democracy is fragile,” he told The Calgary Herald in 1992. Raymond Moriyama, Designer of Humane Public Spaces, Dies at 93 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

I fervently hope that’s correct, and that we still have a functioning democracy and a free press to show for this faith in the tried and true. Perspective | Instead of Trump’s propaganda, how about a nice ‘truth sandwich’? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

"Mursi was using the tools of democracy to basically create another dictatorship, this time a dictatorship that relied on manipulating people through religion," said Noujaim. Protesters, filmmaker traverse Egypt's transition in 'The Square' 2014-01-08T12:07:24Z

But in fact it speaks to many of the problems in our democracy. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Alexis de Tocqueville, commenting on Americans’ propensity to form associations, called this “art of joining” the “fundamental science” of democracy. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Rodrigues’s father was an antifascist activist, and “Catarina” is preoccupied with weighty political questions: When fascist forces are on the rise in a democracy, what are the best means of countering them? Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

“The Greatest Generation deserves every bit of credit for protecting democracy when it was threatened; but Baby Boomers deserve even more credit for enriching democracy and fulfilling its promise,” he wrote in the book. He wrote the book on boomers, and he thinks the Gen Z rap against them isn’t quite OK 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

That picture strikes me as idealized if not downright ideological, a fantasy of film democracy that has rarely been realized. How Much Do You Really Miss Going to the Movies? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

This dangerous and radical movement views multiracial cosmopolitan democracy as an existential threat. "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

One could make the argument that Black voters understand the precariousness of American democracy better than their White fellow citizens. Black voters in West Virginia are tired of being invisible 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Fawcett sees this as the core conflict within the right, always present, forever waxing or waning, and central to the future of Western democracy. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

“There are so many questions left unanswered. Would Andrew have lost if his dad didn’t try to overthrow democracy from a landscaping store, or sweat gravy during a press conference? We’ll never know.” Seth Meyers Calls Out Fox News Hosts for Falling Speechless 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

In this period of renewed populism and nationalism, he concedes, “it sounds crazy to develop a new transnational European democracy.” Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

The French have their revolution, the English the Empire, being the first democracy and Magna Carta, the Americans have their war of independence. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

The ongoing displacement of broadcasting technology by the Internet brings the possibility to restoring the role of individual citizens in representative democracy, but it has not done so yet. Al Gore still thinks the Internet might save us yet 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

As an experiment in literary democracy, the Not the Booker prize has a lot going for it. Recount! The Not the Booker prize goes back to the jury 2010-09-07T14:58:00Z

Could America soon become a failed democracy, like Chile or Indonesia? Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Koreans have continually experienced a very tumultuous history—Japanese colonialism, the Korean War, the democracy movements,” he told me. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

If you’ve been distracted lately by the presidential impeachment trial, you may have missed this tertiary symptom of the collapse of our democracy. Perspective | Threats against the author of ‘American Dirt’ threaten us all 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

"Do you feel satisfaction in that you warned the country, essentially, that he was going to try to end democracy?" the host asked Clinton, to which she replied no. CNN adds diversity, but still needs strategy to reclaim its status as the go-to breaking news source 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z

“There is a real sense that democracy isn’t delivering what it promises, and that’s disillusioning,” she said. Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

But Ms Sengupta calls India “a democracy that makes promises it has no intention of keeping”. We’re not gonna take it 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The ancient Greeks, who lived in the world’s first militarized democracy, at one point faced war on six fronts. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Francis Henry Taylor, a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1940s and ’50s, described the museum as no less than “the midwife of democracy.” Anti-Trump Protest Pushed Its Way Into a Minneapolis Museum 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Capitol that threatened the nation's democracy at its core. From Biden to "Bridgerton," how our stuttering heroes bring a restoration of democracy 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

“Liberal democracy in the West today is not endangered by Russian machinations or resurgent fascism,” Lind writes, describing a world I would love to live in. Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Each episode centers on one issue — veterans’ health, gun violence, threats to democracy — and brings on panels of “stakeholders” affected by it. Review: How Do You Solve ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

That more significant reality is that New Orleans, for all its exceptionalism -- its Hubig pies and Carnival -- is the canary in the coal mine of American democracy. "Treme" feels like home to me 2010-04-18T15:01:00Z

Those are the words of StormIsUponUs, who posted on Parler on Wednesday encouraging the hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who earlier that day had laid siege to the sanctum sanctorum of American democracy. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

One theory holds that democracies seldom war against each other. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z

Disraeli is in fact the architect not just of modern Toryism, but British democracy. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z

For a long time the internet was perceived and presented as a neutral but also progressive platform that would nurture democracy, interconnectedness and egalitarianism. The Turkish Novelist Elif Shafak Wants You to Read More Women 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The ideological opposites struck up a correspondence, bonded by their mutual resolve that Trump is a threat to democracy, Tribe says. A conservative judge helped stop Trump on Jan. 6. He wants to finish the job. 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Activism in support of what Laurie called the “global democracy movement”—which comprises any number of grassroots social consciousness causes—was part of the impetus to found the group. Exclusive First Listen: New Flobots Single “Sides” 2012-08-13T12:00:15Z

As discouraging as these times may be for fans of liberal democracy, the mood among liberal friends of Israel — including most American Jews — is more like severe heartbreak. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Berlusconi is taking one step after another to become a dictator in passing laws which are in conflict with democracy. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z

Symbolically, inaugurations on the Mall are especially powerful; they’re a reminder of the peaceful transition of power and the principles of democracy. A nation divided: Comparing Trump’s inauguration to those of the past 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Liberals are too worried about the survival of democracy in the United States to focus on its survival in the Jewish state. No Light at the End of This Tunnel 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

He said Israel is "luring" international artists to the Tel Aviv Opera House to advance its "fallacious claim to being a 'civilized democracy.'" S.African opera rejects call to cancel Israel tour 2010-10-27T11:26:00Z

We cherish our democracy, but this fundamental right is defined by its almost total absence in literary high fantasy, which has achieved its apotheosis in “Game of Thrones.” Our “Game of Thrones” fantasy: Democracy is almost nonexistent in Westeros—and we like it that way 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

On Friday, after French police stormed the kosher market filled with hostages, Araud tweeted: “Jews and journalists, the usual victims when the target is democracy, tolerance and enlightment.” In Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the French ambassador finds his place in Washington 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The performance, and three more over the weekend, were meant to be a grand experiment in democracy, a way for ballet to break free from its rarefied, elitist image. Beer. Nachos. Arena. Ballet? 2011-06-19T21:57:50Z

But he doesn’t cling to the dream of a two-state solution and the belief that Israel is, or at least can become, a Jewish state and a liberal democracy. Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

“How’re you doing,” a character asks in “Spring,” Ali Smith’s new novel, “apart from the end of liberal capitalist democracy?” In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

We see the destruction of democracy and the rise of a cruel dictator who tries to eliminate all opposition. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

He pondered if America, under a second Trump term, would “become a democracy in name only, similar to a Turkish democracy or a Russian democracy?” Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

Their subject matter is often wrenching, their mode is naturalistic and they seem devoted to probing the dark underbelly of human behavior as well as the weak spots in Europe's decaying social democracy. Cannes: A heart-rending take on a movie classic 2011-05-15T17:21:00Z

I was startled to find how frequently we were accused of deliberately conspiring to squelch democracy. Running the Park Slope Food Coop newsletter taught me not to believe in conspiracy theories 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

But if and when Putinism collapses, we would do well to learn from the past and not treat the country simply as a blank canvas on which to project Western-style democracy. The Myths That Made, and Still Make, Russia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

But the stories still quicken the conscience, especially in cases where democracy is still just around the corner. Movie Review: ‘A Whisper to a Roar,’ Directed by Ben Moses‘ 2012-10-12T01:09:55Z

He regards liberal, consumer- oriented capitalist democracy as the best of all possible political worlds. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

But at the same time I agree with Karajan, who said there are only two places where democracy is impossible: music and the army. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

It was like watching the live abortion of democracy. Sky leaders' debate spin room: the live abortion of democracy 2010-04-22T22:28:00Z

And just by engaging public attention it could be providing a service to democracy. Political satire 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z

The spread of populism and retreat of democracy worldwide. What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Carr himself uses the phrase "New York Times exceptionalism," meaning a sort of religious faith that the paper is too important to the future of democracy, or whatever, to fail. "Page One": Will the New York Times survive? 2011-06-14T21:30:00Z

We also like to look backward, to hash over the conflicts and contradictions of democracy at a historical remove. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Likewise, it is too soon to tell whether American democracy can survive Trump’s attack on it. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Both Nasser and Jawaharlal Nehru were anti-imperialist, but Nehru pursued egalitarianism with democracy, while Nasser imposed a military regime. Did the Crusade for Human Rights Lead to More Inequality? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

In fact, in a self-avowed democracy like the United States, such softer forms are often more effective because they seem so much less insidious, so much less dangerous. Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

George Washington University President Steven Knapp said the Civil War transformed American history, culture and industry - even the concept of American democracy by redefining equality. Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays 2013-02-28T07:16:06Z

A. Europe is worse than anything because there isn’t even the parody of representative democracy. The ‘Submission’ of Michel Houellebecq: Interview Excerpts 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

America’s enduring liberal traditions were, he claimed, profoundly antimilitary, seeing large armed forces as threats to liberty, democracy and peace. Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

I think a democracy works only if people are engaged politically and if they know what's going on. Maggie Gyllenhaal on playing “starving” women: “The way many women are feeling right now” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Eighteen constitutional amendments are being proposed to transform the country from a parliamentary democracy to a presidential system. ‘Art is my weapon’: meet the Turkish artist taking on Erdoğan 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

I did say that, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the reprisal attack against the al-Qaida-Taliban axis was justifiable, not to 'bring democracy', but to respond to an act of war. Salman Rushdie defends his right to call Mo Yan a 'patsy' 2012-12-17T13:20:34Z

He isolates the problem with American democracy to one word: “unrepresentativeness.” Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Call her the poster girl for media coverage of Iowa, a carnival of democracy that was fun and bewildering to watch. For media, Iowa is a confusing carnival of democracy 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Moreover, the institutions of American democracy are beginning to check and counterbalance ominous actions and attitudes emitting from the Oval Office. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The core principle of democracy is freedom of choice, in who you vote for, and in whether you decide to vote at all. Hear this, Sanders supporters — you don’t need to back Hillary: You have every right to say “Bernie or bust” 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Spain’s royal house is going through its most difficult moment since the restoration of democracy in the late 1970s due to the alleged financial improprieties of Felipe’s father, former King Juan Carlos I. Spain’s Princess Leonor presides 1st event without parents 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

The United States has stood for democracy and freedom since the time of its founding. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Who better to address these questions than Albright, whose life was shaped by fascism and whose contribution to the cultivation of democracy as a stateswoman and private citizen is unparalleled? Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

While there has been plenty of bad news for democracy in recent years, there is no doubt that politics is changing. ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

During the 19th century, it referred to the Philippines' European-educated literati, whose revolutionary ideas helped establish the foundations for Asia's first democracy. Q&A: Filipino Author Miguel Syjuco 2010-05-11T06:00:00Z

For a year or so, Denmark is run as a royal democracy and the people are grateful. A Royal Affair: The Enlightenment Brings Sexy Back 2012-11-08T15:00:36Z

Where we see generation and generation of people who have grown up with democracy and take it for granted? From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Can it be committed to sharia and modern democracy? The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power by Alison Pargeter – review 2013-03-22T17:20:01Z

For Americans who believe the president is a raging threat to democracy, purity tests are out. The Lincoln Project’s plan for preserving the union: Drive Trump out of office by driving him nuts 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s not a political comic, really, but it was definitely with the thought that we were going to have a sane democracy continuing in place and not what’s going on. Daniel Clowes: 'Trump's America is like the cynical comics I drew back in the 90s' 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

This persistence and expansion of the culture wars is in some respects evidence of a thriving democracy and a vibrant public square. They’ll always lose the culture wars: The right loves fighting lost causes– but liberals keep winning 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

Yet each anniversary sees renewed soul-searching about the assault on Spain's fledgling democracy during the still bitterly contested post-Franco period known as the transition. Javier Cercas: A life in books 2011-04-04T07:00:01Z

When an elite begins to abandon democracy, both in its rhetoric and tactics, Election Day becomes just another box on the calendar. What Keeps America Divided? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Yahalom’s request seems to confirm Y’s darkest suspicions about Israel’s drift away from democracy and cultural vitality, a brooding, passionate pessimism that will be familiar to anyone who has seen Lapid’s previous films. ‘Ahed’s Knee’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Agony in the Desert 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Instead of the artist, democracy has the Zivilizationsliterat — an unwieldy German compound noun translated as “civilization’s literary man.” Thomas Mann on the Artist vs. the State 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

And we're in that moment where, do we have the patience and the temperament to govern ourselves properly as a democracy? "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ukrainian democracy, seemingly victorious after the Maidan “revolution of dignity,” has since faced internal and external threats, most recently from Vladimir Putin’s army. ‘My Imaginary Country’ Review: Chile in Revolt 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

Taiwan transitioned from authoritarian state under martial law into a democracy and with that there's been a major shift in how Taiwanese people perceive their food. "Taiwanese food is an underdog": In her new cookbook, Clarissa Wei writes a love letter to Taiwan 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface, dispassionately predicting the fall of democracy, the American empire's decline or the destruction of the environment. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z

Elizabeth Kolbert discovers how gerrymandering is undermining democracy in “Drawing the Line.” Sunday Reading: Voting in America 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z

I was left feeling hopeful, sort of like the beginnings of democracy in Westeros. After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Nathalie Emmanuel Is Ready to Take the Lead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

The press criticism, from all sides, reminds me of the oft-quoted quip about democracy: “the worst form of government except for all the others.” Perspective | Press coverage of Kavanaugh is imperfect. But imagine if we didn’t have it. 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It is how art gains social value in a democracy, and it’s why having an opinion on Beyoncé has become one of America’s most vigorous online sports. The better we understand Beyoncé, the more there is to know 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

In his poetry and his prose, Whitman was exploring novel forms of writing in a new democracy — a language of access, of one body witnessing another in shared space. A Traveler to Troubled Lands, Called to Bear Witness 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Wednesday morning, the Open Markets Institute condemned the Penguin Random House deal, saying it “poses multiple dangers to American democracy and to the interests of America’s authors and readers.” Perspective | Penguin Random House is buying Simon & Schuster. That’s bad for readers. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Of the bans and restrictions he is seeing on books in America, he said, “That is dangerous. It’s unimaginable. And it is very urgent, and it ties into the future of our democracy.” Publishing C.E.O. Donates $500,000 to Fight Book Bans 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

"Although punk's democracy stands in opposition to fashion's autocracy, designers continue to appropriate punk's aesthetic vocabulary to capture its youthful rebelliousness and aggressive forcefulness," said Bolton. Punk fashion celebrated at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-02-11T19:42:30Z

In the show's final episode, as those who survived Dany's burning of King's Landing aim to rebuild society, Sam's meek suggestion of extending democracy to everyone regardless of noble birth is laughed out of consideration. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

But even if the highest notes on “land of the free” are difficult to reach, the anthem’s hot-blooded history elevates it to the level of American iconography — a reminder that partisanship is crucial to democracy. ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ Has Changed a Lot in 200 Years 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Thomas Jefferson always taught that a well informed citizenry was the bedrock of our democracy which means the very foundation of our freedom is being undermined with fear mongering and demagoguery. “Fear kills freedom”: New study shows political rhetoric fuels bigotry against Muslims 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

It's a quote by Bill Morris, which basically says that "If you do not have a free and independent press, you will not have democracy." Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

But I am so far more comfortable with a messy democracy. Documentary Directors See Flaws in New Rules for Oscar 2012-10-03T21:58:31Z

But for a show enamored with retail democracy in all its absurdity, it’s too much to resist. ‘The West Wing’ and David Byrne Stage America 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

He welcomed rap as “mass-based poetry,” but worried that corporate power was turning performers away from the mission of “struggle and democracy and political consciousness.” Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

Rather, bourgeois democracy had marginalized them for failing to measure up economically. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who starts his second term on New Year's Day, said he wants to help ensure and sustain the moves toward democracy that protesters sought in the Arab Spring. Fireworks, worry as 2012 rolls in 2011-12-31T16:43:00Z

I don’t know, just as I don’t know whether the Web has been “good for democracy,” as some assert or deny. The Medium: Art-Theft Blogs 2010-06-04T16:35:00Z

Their are few real democracies in the world. How to Be a Jew in the Age of Trump? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Because “Dave” has something moving to say, possibly something we desperately need to hear, about leadership in a democracy, when it is in danger of being stamped out for lack of it. Review | Despite top-notch cast and crew, ‘Dave’ dissolves into camp by second act 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

He did not like the new democracy of the United States. Bolívar by Marie Arana – review 2013-06-15T15:00:01Z

While some artists treat art as an opportunity for moralizing, morality belongs on Kulendran Thomas’s list of humanist fictions, along with democracy, creativity and individuality. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The White House Correspondents’ Association struggled to find the right tone, balancing edgy comics with somber lectures on journalism and democracy by the likes of Ron Chernow and Woodward and Bernstein. The golden age of the White House correspondents’ dinner (yes, there was one) 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

America is a beacon of hope for democracy and freedom for millions of people across the globe. A struggle for identity amid the terror: Feeling like a “weird American” after 9/11 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

This witty civics lesson by the longtime host of “The Daily Show” tackles all the trappings of American democracy covered in your grade-school curriculum. Just Foolin’ Around: 7 Books From Comics and Humorists 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

I feel like, without exaggeration, that’s a real through line to everything that’s happening right now, with California on fire, democracy toppling, the pandemic. Q&A: Adam McKay on the lessons of the 2000 recount 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

"There is no expression of our democracy that is more important or more integral than voting, so how fitting is it that the 'Hamilton' cast encourages all folks to vote," Seller said. 'Hamilton' creator Lin-Manuel Miranda urges people to vote 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

The image of George Washington shouldering with grave dignity his responsibilities as leader of the burgeoning democracy stands in stark contrast to the partisan shenanigans going on in Washington today. Even without Lin-Manuel, 'Hamilton' opens in San Francisco as vital as ever 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

Q: Your characters want to change journalism's crumbling role in a functioning democracy and responsibility to inform the public. A Minute With: Aaron Sorkin on "The Newsroom" 2012-06-20T18:38:07Z

Progressive politics aims to establish the genuine meritocracy and democracy Jackson delineates with his sports metaphor. My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Later, amid criticism in the West that he had forsaken freedom, the phrase was recast as “sovereign democracy,” with the emphasis on the sovereign. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The islands are a self-governing parliamentary democracy but coordinate with New Zealand in international affairs. On the way to New Zealand, a Cook Islands sojourn is an unexpected delight 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

A professor of history makes a connection between the Confederacy and modern-day conservatives, arguing that democracy has always thrived on inequality. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

President Donald J. Trump is just one result; a profound and polarizing distortion of American democracy is another. Whose Votes Really Count? 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Along with a discussion of why public apologies are so vital to a healthy democracy, our conversation touched on public apologies from Hill, Mel Gibson, Bill Clinton and others. Behind the celebrity apology: Why so many are so bad 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

It’s been said that one reason the band stayed together for so long was because there was this sense of partnership and democracy that other bands didn’t necessarily have. R.E.M.?s Mike Mills on Saying Goodbye After Three Decades 2011-11-14T12:00:31Z

She said the first lady believes “we need to protect our democracy with complete transparency, and that is the focus at this time. ” Vegas may be betting on a post-presidential divorce, but Melania Trump seems all in for her husband. 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

And, for essays I’ve written in the last few months, I’ve got stacks of books on pandemics and loneliness and policing and race relations commissions and Kent State and the history of democracy. The Best Book Jill Lepore Ever Got as a Present Is One She Hates 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Salon spoke to Griffin by phone recently her about the album, writing process, inspirations, both political and literary, and democracy. “We are at emergency levels all over the globe”: Patty Griffin on human trafficking, John Crawford’s death and women in the future of democracy 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

In Fukuyama’s view, successful liberal democracy combines three essential elements: the state, rule of law and accountability. 50 notable works of nonfiction

If he loses, it simply proves what you always feared, that democracy can be bought, and that the country is owned by the rich. Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z

The question of course is what constitutes "reasonable," a dilemma with a different shape in the United States than in other Western democracies. David K. Shipler's 'Freedom of Speech' reflects our fractured times 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

He aptly noted that the backsliding of democracy happens slowly. Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

"Stop corporate sponsored democracy," and simply "Tax the rich." Protesters rally in downtown Chicago 2011-10-08T22:29:00Z

Of course, the crowd’s choices gave Letterman a chance to sarcastically marvel about the wonders of democracy. Stand-Up Sets Where You Can Choose Your Own Adventure 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

“The way this film confronts the fragility of democracy and the ever-looming possibility of violence hit home for this American viewer in a way that was both harrowing and humbling,” A.O. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

If Americans remain faithful to the principles of their national paterfamilias, Trump can be thwarted should he actually make a move against democracy. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

“This is what democracy looks like!” people chanted. Scenes from the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Landsman said they were also inspired by Plato’s idea that democracies lack requirements for public office, meaning that anyone — no matter how smart or dumb, sane or insane — can govern. ‘City Council Meeting,’ Locally Tailored, From Here 2013-05-08T21:40:41Z

On the one hand the nytimes reports on the dubious racial profiling of Muslim women who opt to dress in the fashion of their faith - without noting It is optional in western democracies. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But insistent politeness is one of the reasons our democracy and fractured relationship with the facts teeters on the precipice. It's the most wonderful time of year ... to not make your loved ones of color visit a sundown town 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

And those are the basis for a functioning democracy. Perspective | The Seth Rich lie, and how the corrosion of reality should worry every American 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

WC England's history, Michael Wood's latest visit to Kibworth reminds us, is not a smooth progression towards democracy and freedom in which the great and good graciously give ground when confronted with reasonable arguments. Tonight's TV highlights: Midsomer Murders 2010-10-12T23:04:00Z

In the pushback against a history of prejudices, prescription represented authority and tradition, and description represented democracy and progress. Prevailing winds 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s so funny because America tries to be the referee of democracy around the world and not so long ago we treated fellow human beings like animals.” Salmon Oscars and five gallons of hot fudge: catering for the Academy Awards 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

For the mainstream media that is pushing out a different narrative, very hard to crack into that 40 percent, and the question that comes out of that is whether or not our democracy will survive. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The climate debate is about that, and so is the fight for democracy. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

That’s the courage and beauty of what Mozart was trying to do at a moment in history where again, there were no examples of democracy for Mozart to point to in Europe. Remember When ‘Figaro’ Was Set in Trump Tower? 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

He's not against democracy, per se, he just thinks our democratic institutions are no longer capable of controlling global capitalism. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z

The remorse is palpable, as is their determination to preserve whatever is left of democracy. Analysis | Seven bleak takeaways from Showtime’s ‘The Lincoln Project’ miniseries 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

She had gone to enormous effort to promote women’s empowerment and democracy in Namibia and highlight food insecurity in Kenya. When Jill Biden went to Africa, her comment about 2024 stole all the attention 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

“What accounts for the rise of American democracy? The field of explanation—even the phrase itself—is littered with metaphors.” Sunday Reading: Democracy 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Unlike documentaries that tie things up in a tidy bow, "Supreme Price" wants viewers to understand that the status of democracy in Nigeria remains very much in flux. 'Supreme Price' tallies the cost of seeking change in Nigeria 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

We’ve not seen a president this hostile to core values that have defined the workings and the strength of our democracy.A free and open press has become “enemies of the people.” ‘We the people’ means all of us, ACLU director says 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Such gloom is symptomatic of what they call in their subtitle a “citizenless democracy,” overseen by a “web of corporate-funded think tanks, policy networks, political action committees and media.” What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

In this clear-eyed chronicle of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Saddam Hussein, Davis asks important questions about the development of democracy and its flip side, autocracy. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Washington followed a strict code of honor, learned from his mistakes, deeply believed in the cause of democracy and sacrificed greatly to advance it. Washington would have hated Trump 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

Earlier she stressed the "importance of the rule of law" in democracy, at a London School of Economics debate. Aung San Suu Kyi pays BBC tribute 2012-06-19T15:38:16Z

Other people have paid a deeper price for democracy than you, because they died for it in foreign theaters of war, and they died trying to pursue it at home as well. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

With the army’s removal of the polarizing Morsi, Egypt segues from Islamization to militarization, and democracy advocates face a new adversary. Activists love and lose in the Cairo novel, 'The City Always Wins' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Invading the church, he warns the fearful citizens that America “has long equated democracy with capitalism and capitalism with God” and that by resisting his unfriendly takeover they are engaged in blasphemy. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

In the name of spreading democracy abroad, they were willing to countenance its degradation at home. Why the United States Invaded Iraq 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

At its idealistic peak, as in recent large-ensemble works by the composer and bandleader Anthony Braxton, improvisation can represent a vision of collaborative democracy. Music Review: Jazz Meets Classical at the Miller Theater 2010-07-25T23:55:00Z

Never mind the pundits so worried by the threat Trump poses to democracy that they can’t stop writing columns about him and don’t miss a chance to deplore him on television. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

Christopher Alden of Plymouth Meeting, Pa., also found himself overwhelmed last year, “fretting over how to get toilet paper, masks, mail-in voting and presidential attacks on our democracy.” Perspective | Conquer ‘Moby-Dick,’ finish ‘Infinite Jest’: Avid readers share their resolutions for 2021 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

It's kind of a democracy, Doves, so everyone's got a valid opinion. New bands' tour funds 'drying up' 2010-04-06T14:44:00Z

“It’s the first time we’ve had a real sense of how fragile democracy is.” This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

He falls in with others drawn to the war and its borderless churn: Syrian fighters and democracy activists, foreign humanitarian workers and journalists and a striking number of American veterans. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

So Terrence in the Digital Era, with all this hatred and rancor coming at us from all directions, and with democracy itself spinning and wobbling like an expiring top, what is our job as educators? "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

“I invite you to meet me in person to discuss Israel, its achievements and its role as the only democracy in the Middle East,” Gerberg said on the Embassy of Israel’s Facebook page. Israel ambassador asks to meet New Zealand pop star Lorde over cancele 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

For every stone monument to democracy, an enslaved person forced to build a monument to democracy. Perspective | The fantasy of repudiating Trumpism is dead 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

“I can’t see any democracy having the desire or capacity to mandate vaccines.” Perspective | Summer travelers grapple with a vaccine gap 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Indeed,” he writes, “I believe universities can play a unique role in rebuilding the kind of discourse on which participatory democracy depends.” The Professor and the Adjunct 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

But it's tough to look at what's happening to our democracy and society, and not be disheartened. "Last Man Standing" bids farewell, while Tim Allen keeps on truckin' with his right-wing shade 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Every time we did something kind of extreme, we looked at all the images of Gaddafi, of anybody in power in all the democracies we live in. Actresses bond over playing dress up, tattoos and aging on screen 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

The music directorship of any major orchestra entails a delicate counterpoint of democracy and despotism. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Even the best watchdog journalism won’t preserve democracy as the Founders intended without engaged citizens and responsible elected officials, all living in the same truth-based reality. As Trump era nears, is the media ready for the challenge? 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Zelenskyy's satire is in this same family of using ironic wit to foster political change and using the charisma of comedy to help defend and advance democracy. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

They’re emerging from a period of nondemocracy, and you can see why you might be worried that someone who questions democracy could end up undermining respect for the institutions. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

What shapes the kind of person who declares, as Robinson does, “democracy is my aesthetics and my ethics and more or less my religion”? Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Sofia, a Sunni Iraqi leader who has returned from a lifetime in exile to participate in her country’s new democracy. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Most of these organizations have opted for short chains of command — “an org chart in landscape mode, not portrait mode,” as Gibney put it — rather than simple democracy. Dance’s Communal Ethos Is Moving Into the Office and Boardroom 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

But we need in a democracy to prevent abuse of power by any group: Government, labor, capital or management. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

The right, in other words, to be an American in a functioning democracy. The audience, under fire: Why survival of culture depends on protection from guns 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

If freedom, democracy, creativity or culture were being celebrated, the non-joiners would have no such rationale for dissent. The Queen's jubilee should be a time of rejoicing for our spoilsports 2012-06-02T23:05:41Z

After opening her segment devoted to the debate between Trump and Hillary Clinton by describing the clash as “American democracy playing Russian roulette”, Bee swiftly laid into Trump for his consistent interruptions of Clinton. Samantha Bee: Trump's real problem is 'every woman who's ever been called fat' 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“In spite of the overload of perspectives, it’s quite clear that the war was a very bad experience, an assault on democracy and plurality.” Nuance Is Difficult When It Involves Nazis, a Museum Finds 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

But maybe today, of all days, it would help to think of democracy not just as the result of casting a vote, but as an organism that’s constantly expanding, contracting, pushing back. Donald Trump, Dante and the End of Your Elitist Tastes 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

A history of Native American people and the development of American democracy. Here Are the Finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z

Ostlund told The New York Times that he planned to have “a very Swedish approach when it comes to running the jury,” adding, “It will be a democracy.” Meet this year’s Cannes jury. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

The recognition of the distinctiveness of individual experiences—and of the experiences of members of particular cultures within a country at large—is democracy at work, both politically and artistically. A Few Thoughts About British Actors Playing American (and African-American) Roles 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

For the sake of sanity, civility and democracy, somebody needs to show some discipline and break this thing off. If Trump loses, the news media should break the addiction. But can they? 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Boys Alma's age are expected to be sex-obsessed, but a girl who yearns for action is relentlessly stigmatized, even in the context of a supposedly nurturing and tolerant social democracy. Tribeca: Teen horniness -- in Norway! 2011-04-27T20:30:00Z

There isn’t much agreement on the nature of the crisis of democracy or its dimensions — are we talking terminal decline, or a troubling but temporary downturn? Is Trump really building a fascist regime — or is it all just showmanship? Either way the threat to democracy is real 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

In Trump’s history of saying dangerous, inflammatory things about any number of groups, including Muslims and Latinos, perhaps none is as destructive as his recent attack on democracy itself. The limits of “we go high”: Ignoring Donald Trump’s trolling won’t make it go away 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Johnson sought to restore white supremacy in the South; Congress meant to build a biracial democracy. Letters to the Editor 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The organization and its allies seemed to be on the vanguard of a global movement toward openness and democracy, enabled by digital technology and fueled by the idealism and skepticism of an army of hackers. Review: Revisiting the Mystery of Julian Assange, in ‘Risk’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

“I invite you to meet me in person to discuss Israel, its achievements and its role as the only democracy in the Middle East,” Gerberg said on the Embassy of Israel’s Facebook page. Israel ambassador asks to meet New Zealand pop star Lorde over cancele 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

At a moment when questions about the efficacy of democracy are on everyone’s lips, this book eerily reflects some of today’s key issues. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s how we create a healthy democracy where everyone’s voice is heard.” Kept home by COVID-19, U.S. politics goes virtual with digital dance parties and avatars 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

This would be a vigilant democracy, one that is aware of the political ambiguity of communications technologies and the complicity of big business and corporate media in eliminating legal protections on privacy. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z

It underestimates the great harm that Trump’s election has done to basic assumptions about democracy, governance and normal politics in the United States. Van Jones: “There was only one white guy in Hillary Clinton’s ad — and it was Donald Trump” 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

The big, lively crowds of disparate people talking to each other about their struggles was the whole point: it showed that real democracy can break out almost anywhere given the chance. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z

American muscle-flexing around the world — from World War I through the Cold War — was justified in terms of the global good, with “national exceptionalism” transformed into an “unimpeachably noble” crusade for democracy. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

The cornerstone’s exact location is now unknown; during the insurrection, the symbolic cornerstone of American democracy — the peaceful transfer of power — was also momentarily lost. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

This time he visits the home of democracy, replicating his formula of chirpy travelogue and local recipes. The British Soap Awards 2010 2010-05-19T06:00:00Z

But India's apparently vibrant democracy shows a greater strain of urban-oriented economic growth and growing inequality. Advice for a new government 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

And pirates were a surprisingly multiracial lot, as escaped slaves and free blacks alike were drawn to the relative freedom and democracy they were afforded. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z

“This is what democracy looks like!” they answered. Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

As a result, the rich democracies find themselves lurching between extremes of left and right, vulnerable to charismatic populists offering the false promise of a return to an unrecoverable past. Saving Local Communities in a Globalized World 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

These men have a double legacy: They not only helped save the free world but they advanced the cause of racial justice in a democracy still struggling to live up to its highest ideals. 'Fly' smartly and briskly tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen at Pasadena Playhouse 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

It’s simple and fun, and it’s what democracy looks like. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

Anyway, I was forced to do away with democracy roughly a thousand years ago because it was endangering my empire. From Civilization to Big Brother: how a game recreated Orwell's 1984 2012-06-13T11:55:34Z

But when Ghajar pastes an “I Voted” sticker where a mouth should be, he doesn’t seem to be extolling the mechanisms of Western democracy. In the galleries: Watercolors reveal a forceful vision at Touchstone 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

As a "true democracy," public opinion defined the limits of India's forebearance, but Menon stressed that India did not wish to play into the hands of the terrorists by shunning dialogue. US embassy cables: Indian concern over security in Afghanistan 2010-12-16T21:30:34Z

“It Can’t Happen Here” is an argument for journalism as a basic pillar of democracy. Getting Close to Fascism with Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here” 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Populism is a kind of heresy of democracy. The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

You just need to care about secular democracy, free speech and the separation of church and state. A night at the vibrator museum 2012-05-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Trump has a conscious intent to vandalize liberal democracy — he doesn’t even understand what it is. Can Donald Trump Be Impeached? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

His message is “Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or Communism.” Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

But honestly, how many depressing books on the decline of democracy can one read? Letters to the Editor 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

It isn’t just like now, but the analogies are enough to get you thinking about what happens in a democracy when state power confronts popular dissent. ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Most folks who worry that cynicism will ruin our democracy conflate cynicism with apathy. Don’t worry, be cynical: Why the fear of a nation of critical skeptics is overblown 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

You also believe in other things: science, or the value of literature, or democracy. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

It is a new way of seeing democracy, and of obscuring it. United We Stan 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

I say to them, my life is not a democracy. Sam Mendes: life is sweet 2013-04-19T22:00:00Z

I told him to fall back — even though we supposedly live in a form of democracy, this is still way out of our control. If Donald Trump wants to get his war on with Syria, have him send his own kids first 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

He’s given to utterances like “democracy doesn’t really work anymore.” Boom, Bust and a Berkshires Interloper in ‘The Locals’ 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

There are several problems with this model from the perspective of both efficacy and, more importantly, democracy. When public schools answer to markets 2012-07-29T18:00:00Z

But the truth is, democracy is really fragile. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Why this happened to red velvet is at the core of the culture’s spirit of democracy and innovation,” said the Canadian author David Sax. Red velvet cake’s path from gimmick to marketing craze 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

Levels of poverty are likely to increase in the next two years – a sad fact for our wealthy and sophisticated democracy. Guardian Films on poverty in the north of England 2011-07-22T08:00:04Z

The stage is one of the few places left in our democracy where citizens turn off their phones to collectively confront the thorniest issues of the day. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Give us all, childed or childless, our democracy and our rights while we’re still alive, not decades from now when it does us no good. Insidious political cliché alert: Stop saying it’s all about the kids 2014-04-21T22:59:00Z

The film is set in the run up to Portugal’s 1974 “Carnation” revolution that ended a four-decade-long dictatorship and led the country to democracy. Portuguese drama 'A Herdade' chronicles one landowner's tale amid... 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“I think we have to ask ourselves … the narrators, the storytellers, the journalists: Are we ringing the alarm in the right way? Are we doing our jobs to try to uphold our democracy?” The AP Interview: Nikole Hannah-Jones’ warning on democracy 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The first and last rooms of the show are full of bold, noisy, challenging work, prints that capture both the raucous nature of democracy and the inherently freewheeling nature of the medium itself. A free-wheeling medium for a free-wheeling country 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

As expected, he warned democracy advocates not to cross the “red line” of pressing for independence. A Hong Kong hangout for journalists stands up for press freedom amid protests and pandemic 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

My personal favorite in this regard, ignoring his many other flaws, Ben Franklin was as supportive of democracy and ending slavery as anyone. ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They In Sync? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

What anyone thought was "democracy" was considered rule of the mob, and held in intellectual contempt. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z

"I've got a very strong trust in South Africa's democracy," he says. The comedian making South Africa's World Cup a laughing matter 2010-06-07T12:42:00Z

“Touching on issues of race and class, democracy and civil rights, and much more, we believe each of these productions won’t just entertain, but will educate, connect, and inspire us all,” Barack Obama said. Barack and Michelle Obama announce first slate of Netflix projects 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Now his appeal would be addressed to the decaying and lying Western democracies.” Music: Musicians Sound Out for Russian Prisoners 2011-07-07T11:00:05Z

This benevolence is an expression of the Dardennes’ stubborn humanist faith, and also of their commitment to the battered and resilient ideals of European social democracy. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Peddling “democracy” as if it were a popularity contest is what “American Idol” does. Critic’s Notebook: Norman Foster’s Public Library Will Need Structural Magic 2013-01-29T23:35:04Z

By doubling and tripling down on a more homogeneous group, Republicans have become more cultlike and resistant to compromise or moderation; Democrats, in contrast, have “an immune system of diversity and democracy.” Why America’s Political Divisions Will Only Get Worse 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

When democracy arrived, Roger was among the first to apply for a distilling license. In Cape Town, forget the wine and go for the brandy instead

According to Oliver, while surely the “worst thing to happen to our democracy,” is Trump’s next Cinco de Mayo tweet, he notes that gerrymandering is “a real problem.” WATCH: John Oliver says gerrymandering threatens the “foundation of democracy” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The exhibition features a photograph of U Win Tin, the elder statesman of Burma's democracy movement, unbowed by 19 years in jail. Burma activists say hands up for democracy 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

They, too, now worked to form a broad antifascist “Popular Front” and a “cultural front” to promote the causes of labor and democracy. FDR’s most important lesson: Liberal causes could still inspire activism on a grand scale 2014-04-27T13:00:00Z

How did the U.S. increasingly come to reject diplomacy and democracy for militarism and proto-autocracy? Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

In a secular, democratic society, they argue, cool is a sign of cultural democracy, a status that has to be earned, rather than passed down by an aristocratic elite. Museums Special Section: In Washington, 100 Examples of the Epitome of Cool 2014-03-19T20:36:17Z

But the difference is, we practice democracy in the way of a bunch of self-interested groups, battling for supremacy. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

The compromise they've reached – to let a small riot happen while hospitalising the occasional protester – is probably, like democracy, the worst option except for all of the other ones. Is a catchy title really the best means of safeguarding nuclear security? 2010-12-19T00:06:14Z

Nor are these just the concerns of the past: the coding of Jews as illicitly wealthy and conspiring against democracy is again a feature of European politics. Ezra Pound wrote the world’s single greatest poem, but is it wrong to love a fascist? | Ash Sarkar 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

He said 16 is the perfect age to start a lifelong voting habit, because that’s when students are studying U.S. history and government and are ready “to start shaping our democracy.” More cities consider letting 16-year-olds vote in local elections 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Susan’s got this big reputation for being firm and fierce and direct,” says Gayle Smith, former National Security Council senior director for development and democracy. Susan Rice has spent her career fighting off detractors: ‘I inadvertently intimidate some people, especially certain men’ 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Baron will explore his eight years with the paper and look into larger issues of the press and its role in democracy. Retired Washington Post editor Martin Baron has book deal 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

He felt powerless in “a so-called democracy that is waging wars in the name of protecting me and my country and my way of life.” Dan Deacon explores 'America' 2012-08-30T04:59:00Z

The findings of the special counsel, of course, concern dead-serious questions about the integrity of American democracy. Review: ‘The Investigation’ Makes the Mueller Report a Dark-Comic Indictment 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Most of his book builds a brick-by-brick case for this thesis, with chapters on education, campaign finance, democracy, workers, corporations and criminal justice. A Supreme Court for the Rich 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The answer, your film advances is to find the capacity to resist, get involved, and demand a new brand of democracy. Democracy, not consumption is "how we will amass power to challenge the corporate behemoth" 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

I think we have started to equate democracy with some symbols of it that don’t really get to the issues, whether that’s in the referendum vote on Brexit or whatever. Hillary Clinton meets Mary Beard: ‘I would love to have told Trump: “Back off, you creep”’ 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z

It’s the step that you cross over to, where suddenly what was going wrong in democracy becomes state-sanctioned authoritarian violence. What everyone gets wrong about Hunter S. Thompson 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

But it is possible that, while the Obama administration upholds Athenian ideals of democracy, the outlook of much of the electorate has more in common with Sparta. Ben Rhodes: ‘Obama has a serenity that I don't. I get more exercised’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

“He wants to bring his people at least a taste of freedom and democracy,” Mr. Scott says. ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Lawrence of Arabia' 2011-06-06T23:38:09Z

Its followers, Foner writes, believed that “blacks lacked the capacity to participate intelligently in political democracy,” thus providing the intellectual rationale for the South to overthrow Reconstruction and the North to disown it. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

The democracy beat shouldn’t be some kind of specialized innovation, but a widespread rethinking across the mainstream media. Perspective | Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Will agrees to stay connected with his friends and to fight, now, toward the never-ending goals of democracy and peace. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

In part, that was enforced by censorship, which began under South Korea's former military dictatorship and continued through the first decade of democracy. New film shows struggles of North Koreans in South 2011-04-17T16:01:05Z

With her tongue firmly in cheek, Ms. Ewing said the lesson of this debate was that democracy was “terrifying.” Documentary Directors See Flaws in New Rules for Oscar 2012-10-03T21:58:31Z

The letter says "dissent is a right in any democracy." Top British rockers seek release of Russian band 2012-08-02T11:16:04Z

“If there’s any measure of wealth in our democracy or the progress of our societies, it is through the status of the poor, of the people who are really at the bottom,” she said. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

And what about Robert Blair, the professor whose concerns about American democracy launched the course? Trump’s presidency has prompted a new, nationwide college course on why democracies collapse 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

These grizzled watchdogs of our democracy take so many boneheaded risks they wouldn’t make it past the first chapter in a “Choose Your Own Adventure” paperback. ‘House of Cards’ Season 2: More delicious ruthlessness 2014-02-11T21:21:09Z

Where there were once the founding fathers of democracy, there are now startup founders, he argued. Clooneys to attend a VIP fundraiser for Clinton – and Sanders fans are outraged 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

In democracy, citizens are free to think for themselves and explore, and are motivated by very real—not phantom—intrinsic forces, including curiosity and a desire for justice, community, and solidarity. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z

I mean, before we began to suspect that it was harvesting our data, destroying our privacy and undermining our democracy. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

This sentimental survey of the Queen’s relationships with nearly a dozen prime ministers deals only in the most glancing way with politics, or questions about the relevance of a monarchy in a modern democracy. Scalia and his audience 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

That may be bad for Russian democracy, the West and more imminently Ukraine, but Mr. Putin deserves credit as a muse for American entertainment. On ‘The Americans’ and Other Shows, Russian Spies Invade 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

That democracy is a precipice is not new. "Voting is important but insufficient": Scott Warren on youth power in politics 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

Bill Clinton, in 1997: “I thank you and come here to honor your indispensable part in our lively, two-hundred-and-twenty-five-year-old experiment in democracy.” Why Donald Trump Is Skipping the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Yes, people that we don't like might get in, but that's democracy. Glastonbury 2013: views from Leftfield 2013-06-30T16:00:02Z

“Democratic Intuition” examines democracy in relation to the daily lives of southern Africans, most often with political imagery like campaign posters as a subtle presence. Meleko Mokgosi Wants You to See the Politics of Everyday Life 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

US diplomats make it clear they would prefer India to be less friendly towards the ruling junta and work to encourage democracy. WikiLeaks cables show warming relationship between India and US 2010-12-16T21:30:23Z

Now in an ideal democracy, what should happen when a justice takes gifts and gives favors and is unethical? "Deadlocked" director Dawn Porter: "This very radical conservative Supreme Court is not an accident" 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z

Historian Martha S. Jones illuminates the stories of those whose activism laid the groundwork for change and paints a more complete picture of the forces that shaped our democracy. December paperback releases: 7 books to read now 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

"Although punk's democracy stands in opposition to fashion's autocracy, designers continue to appropriate punk's aesthetic vocabulary to capture its youthful rebelliousness and aggressive forcefulness," Bolton said. New York's Met Museum celebrates punk's influence on fashion 2013-05-07T05:30:27Z

And they all get that, fundamentally, “Hamilton” is a show about collective energy and cooperation — the hard work of democracy — rather than showboating. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

And I heartily agree with his emphasis on local journalism and the way rampant misinformation is damaging our democracy. Perspective | What Obama gets right — and very wrong — about the media 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

While an important argument in the development of freedom of speech, Kant's general position is obviously out of place for contemporary democracies. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

Jefferson played a key role in shaping the new democracy. 'The Art of Power': Thomas Jefferson shapes the republic 2012-11-20T21:35:18Z

That situation led to the formation of a committee to draft a constitution that would push the country’s government closer to a Western-style democracy. Review: ‘Democrats,’ Chronicling Politics in Zimbabwe 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

But there are also growing grumbles over the economy and what critics call a backward slide on democracy and persecution of opponents, although the Kremlin denies the accusations. Art, songs - and a few worries - as Putin turns 62 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

You know, many Americans just take democracy as a whole for granted. Trevor Noah talks to Salon about worrying less about Trump’s spelling and more about democracy 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

In truth, the real killer app in the city where Hollis and I are both domiciled is the light fiscal touch – insignificant local tax-raising powers – and the sham it makes of a true local democracy. Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z

They take place under the menacing shadow of Russia’s escalating attacks on Western liberal democracy and the revisionist mythologizing of right-wing leaders across the continent. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Two years ago even family members didn’t know what our work entailed; now we’re getting thanked by strangers for upholding the foundations of liberal democracy. Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

After Prop 13, democracy in California got knocked off its axis. The Tea Party’s inspiration: A tax revolt that destroyed California 2013-09-15T13:30:00Z

“With refreshing transparency and candor, Stacey Abrams never conceals her ambition and dedication to transforming the system from within. As our democracy faces unprecedented peril, her time is now.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

I understand the concern that social media algorithms have fragmented society, and that as well as showing you slightly too many kitten gifs they might be destroying democracy. Get out of my echo chamber. It's cosy in here 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

Ancient Athens, a proud democracy, never recovered from the plague. Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

However, social democracy cannot just be about preserving worthy institutions as a defence against worse options. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

His second-term Inaugural Address making democracy promotion his major goal “must rank as one of the most ill-considered of all time.” Review: ‘Bush,’ a Biography as Scathing Indictment 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

"I think it's just essential to a thriving democracy and the future of America," she also said. Young conservatives at CPAC share what they love most about America 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Durrenmatt’s play is, among other things, a satire of bourgeois democracy. A Dark Swiss Comedy, Transported to Rural Senegal 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

In a bloody episode, thousands of protesters take to the streets demanding democracy, known as the June days. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z

Despite his own fervent feelings about his country’s “young democracy,” Mr. Mendonca Filho said he was intent on giving viewers a chance to process “Aquarius” for themselves. A Brazilian Filmmaker Travels Through Time, With Sonia Braga 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

She is now the director of the Republican Accountability Project, an anti-Trump organization focused on defending democracy and holding those who tried to overturn the 2020 election accountable. Former Trump aide said she was told not to play Taylor Swift at the White House 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

So to break their grip on American democracy, the government needs to break them up in turn. A Look at Competition in Business Urges Us to Think Small 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

If Arnold was under any grandiose illusions that he was a white knight for American democracy, it helped that he was getting calls from serious journalists. Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

He knew the right to vote is the heart of democracy and did not hesitate to defend it, a legacy today’s Supreme Court and Republicans in Washington and across the country should embrace, not abandon. President Clinton Looks Back at President Grant 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

"I was reading about the shining ideals of our democracy — 'All men are created equal' — and I couldn't reconcile that with what I knew to be my childhood imprisonment." Actor-activist George Takei takes command in cyberspace and beyond 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

His lawyer Matthew Buckland had told Kingston crown court the case raised issues of private personal encounters and "how we view them in an inclusive democracy". Former Boris Johnson aide cleared of possession of 'extreme pornography' 2012-08-08T14:58:48Z

To write a poem that could honor democracy without necessarily honoring a man, that could provide an “alternate vision” of what America could or should look like. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

"Because there's no democracy left in Barking," he replied. True Stories: The Battle for Barking 2010-12-01T08:00:00Z

We can never forget that, in the case of Russia, we are not dealing with a democracy. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

IN 1989 the movement for democracy brought the Chinese Communist Party to within days of extinction. To have and to hold 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“But we need a democracy more right now.” Freshman blues: Inside the new House Democrats’ unsettling first year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

The subject is the struggle for democracy in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, under a brutal military dictatorship. Amar Kanwar at Marian Goodman, Lyle Ashton Harris at CRG 2010-04-01T22:40:00Z

Most have attempted to do so by giving a sense of the extraordinary scale of the changes transforming the world's largest democracy. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-22T10:00:01Z

The new “Macbeth” takes place circa 1970, not in a kingdom but in a nominal democracy with a tendency to elect strongmen. Review | Jo Nesbo puts a Nordic chill on ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

But the end of neoliberalism also creates an opening for “a new era of democracy,” in which political reform, economic equality and social solidarity are interconnected. Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

“One thing about living in a democracy is people also get to listen and talk and don’t talk over one another,” Power said. At RiseUp summit, Code Pink protesters give a real-time lesson in activism

Every year, millions of tourists come to Washington to seek inspiration — in marble monuments to the nation’s heroes and leaders, in temples of democracy and civic power. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Silvestre has fun with the murder mystery, but his real subject is Brazil, "a country capable of advancing 50 years in only five of full democracy", as it lurches out of the developing world. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-05-24T10:01:00Z

Furet's heirs are derided for focusing attention on the liberal constitutional aspirations of 1789, instead of the dark days of the Terror, which surely played a part in the founding of our western democracies. In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich – review 2012-08-17T21:55:02Z

That vision was of a full realization of democracy, complete with equal resources and opportunity. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Gautier Stephane/Sagaphoto.com/Alamy Our experiment in literary democracy is about to end. Not the Booker prize: Judgment day 2010-10-11T09:08:00Z

“It’s a systemic problem baked into the structure of our democracy,” said Hamam, who has noted that the current conservative majority was largely appointed by presidents who originally took office without winning the popular vote. The Hosts of ‘5-4’ Never Trusted the Supreme Court 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

But it ends up being a relatively small part of what police are tasked to do every day in a democracy, Jenkins says. The deeper meaning in Sandra Bland video that has so many deflated 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Outwardly, Youssef is sanguine about what he says are the natural growing pains of a country growing used to democracy. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z

That self-government, and by extension democracy or even a republic as we have in America, is hard. "Democracy is never perfected": David Simon on his new HBO series and the 2020 "s**tshow" election 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Uncertainty manifested itself in a complicated stance, sometimes fostering democracy and at others sticking to the letter of the Constitution. Lincoln Served Six Ways: Reframing a President 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

The number referred to the restoration of democracy in Greece in 1974, following a seven-year military dictatorship, after which the government hired thousands of state workers, leading to today’s debt woes. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z

Trump's assault on the free press has found allies among publishers and editors who support his assault on democracy. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

His skepticism for American democracy has only increased. Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

No category of voters in a democracy is especially virtuous, none immune from evil. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

One telling, human illustration came in recent global polling for the Journal of Democracy, which showed an alarming decline in the number of people who believed it was “essential” to live in a democracy. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Pressley told the Root: “I was missing her. I was mourning my hair. I was mourning the state of our democracy. I was mourning my mentor, Chairman Elijah Cummings.” Ayanna Pressley reveals bald look and alopecia diagnosis in powerful video 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z