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Blinken publicly hinted there is growing concern among U.S. officials about the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul plan.

JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to send a top general to Myanmar to talk to its junta leaders in the hope of showing Myanmar's military rulers how Indonesia made a successful transition to democracy, President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday.

Indonesia plans to send a top general to Myanmar to talk to its junta leaders in the hope of showing Myanmar's military rulers how Indonesia made a successful transition to democracy, President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday.

Record high spending ‘is putting our democracy at risk’, Centre for Public Integrity chair says

The prospects for peace in Myanmar, much less a return to democracy, seem dimmer than ever two years after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi

Alarmists are unfazed by the lack of evidence that "foreign influence campaigns" have affected public opinion or voting behavior.

The general public trusts businesses more than they trust governments. Public officials should leverage that.

On Feb 1, 2021, the world was shocked as the Myanmar military staged a coup, pushing the country formerly seen as a new poster-boy of democracy back to an Orwellian state.

Two years ago, on Feb 1, the day that Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy were set to sit in a new parliament, the Myanmar military shocked the world by staging a deeply unpopular coup.

George Santos is not the first politician to have lied, but the fables he told to get elected to Congress may be in a class by themselves. Historian Sean Wilentz remarked that while embellishments happen, Santos’ lies are different – “there is no example like it” in American history, Wilentz…

Shoshana Zuboff calls Musk and Zuckerberg "information oligarchs" and thinks decision-making power lying with a few top-ranked executives can threaten democracy.