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2022: The Year the Good Guys Struck Back

After years of rising authoritarianism and xenophobic populism, democracy is strengthening. But a long struggle lies ahead.

Foreign Policy

Doyle McManus: Democracy around the world is looking a little healthier, at least next to the alternative

More than a decade ago, scholars began pointing to a troubling global trend: a "democratic recession." Dozens of countries were drifting away from democracy toward authoritarianism.

Los Angeles Times

Here are the lessons, Democrats

Democrats have an opportunity to seize the moral high ground as the party of justice. Will they take it?

Salon

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As he preps for 2024, Biden has finally found his footing as president

A week before the midterm election, President Joe Biden pitched senior advisers on his closing argument to American voters — a sweeping address in which he’d once again insist that democracy itself was on the ballot.

Tribune News Service

A knife-edge election in Fiji sees power shift – and a chance to bring back real democracy

When the final election results were announced around 4pm on Sunday, many Fijians, at home and around the world, breathed a collective sigh of relief: the government of coup-maker Frank Bainimarama looked like it had finally been defeated at the ballot box.

The Conversation

How the 20 year rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transformed Turkey

In 2002, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP), obtained a parliamentary majority in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. The seemingly unstoppable rise of political Islam throughout the turbulent 1990s had finally culminated in a much-dreaded loss for a Kemalist political establishment committed to…

The Conversation

There is pressure on the Tunisian president after election turnout was less than 9%

Tunisians on Saturday voted to elect a new parliament, to the backdrop of a soaring cost-of-living crisis and concerns of democracy backsliding in the North African country.

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Good news for the world’s autocrats – EU sleaze is a huge own goal for democracy

Qatargate scandal shows how insider corruption, influence-peddling and money-politics can erode public trust, says Observer columnist Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK

Tunisians Shun Vote for Powerless New Parliament

Tunisians on Saturday overwhelmingly boycotted an election for a new parliament, and electoral board president Farouk Bouasker said that by close of polls at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT), just 8.8 percent of the nine-million-strong electorate had cast votes. That would be the lowest participation in any poll since the revolution,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Honour models for democracy

Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as…

Bangkok Post

Turnout low so far as Tunisia votes for a ‘dummy’ parliament

After sending in tanks to shutter Tunisia’s last parliament, the leader of a nation once seen as the Arab world’s most progressive democracy is taking no chances in the vote for its successor.

Tribune News Service

SNP to hold ‘Democracy Scotland’ conference on how to secure independence

The conference will take place in Edinburgh next March 19.

The Independent UK

Tunisians vote for parliament amid economic, democracy vows

Tunisians are voting for a new parliament to the backdrop of a dire economic crisis and concerns of democracy backsliding in the North African country — the cradle of Arab Spring protests a decade ago

The Independent UK

Tunisians go to polls in election set to cement rule of strongman president

Opposition groups are boycotting vote that one prominent party leader describes as ‘a still-born farce’

The Guardian - UK

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Pat Flanagan column: Ireland celebrates 100th birthday but we can't look after our sick kids

When a nation can’t look after its sick children it might not be the best time to mark what some claim is '100 years of unbroken democracy'

Foreign Policy

A Narrow Escape, a Massacre, an Invite to Washington

U.S. officials hatched a plan to smuggle Chad’s pro-democracy leader to safety—while Washington planned to fete his tormentor.

Al Jazeera

Opposition hopes democratic ideals can return in Tunisia

As overseas voting begins, voter apathy is palpable and begs the question if the spirit of democracy in Tunisia is dead.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The ongoing threat to democracy can be found inside Mark Meadows’ phone

Republicans have been crowing about the “Twitter Files” and Hunter Biden’s laptop, but maybe it’s Mark Meadows’ texts they should have been worried about all along.

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Biden Tells Leaders US is 'All in' for Africa

US President Joe Biden threw his support Thursday behind a larger African role in the world as he also vowed to champion democracy in a continent where China and Russia have enjoyed rising clout. "The United States is all in on Africa and all in with Africa," Biden told nearly…

Chicago Sun-Times

In farewell speech, Rep. Adam Kinzinger warns GOP ‘has embraced lies and deceit’

“Our democracy is not functioning,” Adam Kinzinger, the Chicago-area Republican who has stood against the MAGA wing, warns colleagues.

Bangkok Post

Beijing has grave dearth of activists

Protesters recently took to the streets of China's cities in a rare show of political dissent. While the demonstrations are focused largely on the authorities' zero-Covid policy, they have sparked speculation that a pro-democracy movement -- and even a Taiwan-style political transition -- could come next. But this is unlikely,…

The Independent UK

Biden says he plans to visit sub-Saharan Africa soon

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he will soon make a visit to sub-Saharan Africa, announcing bare details of his travels plans as he wrapped up the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit aiming that he’s serious about increasing U.S. attention on the growing continent

WEKU

Maria Ressa's 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is a memoir and manifesto

In 2013, Ressa laid out her forward-looking vision for the future of public service journalism to me. Her book traces a humbling, harrowing journey from social media advocate to democracy defender.

The Conversation

Dear Comrade President: book highlights ANC leader Oliver Tambo’s role in preparing South Africa for democracy

More than three decades have passed since the apartheid government in South Africa unbanned the African National Congress (ANC), the country’s leading liberation movement, and released its leader, Nelson Mandela, from prison. This launched four fraught years of negotiations and violence that led to South Africa’s first-ever democratic elections.

Reuters

Tunisia's Saied unpicks 'Arab spring' democracy

President Kais Saied has dramatically reshaped Tunisian politics in his favour since mid-2021, amassing near total power in what critics see as a march to one-man rule set to culminate on Saturday, when voters will elect a largely toothless parliament.

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