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Democracy in US ‘under assault’ by MAGA Republicans, Joe Biden says

President sounds alarm over Donald Trump

Wales Online

Biden warns ‘extremist’ Trump Republicans threaten US democracy

US President sharpens attacks on predecessor with just eight weeks to go before bitterly contested midterm elections.

Al Jazeera

In Philly, Biden warns ‘MAGA Republicans’ are threatening democracy

PHILADELPHIA — Standing in Philadelphia in front of Independence Hall, President Joe Biden warned Thursday night that the democracy born there faces an existential threat from former President Donald Trump and his allies, seeking to reframe the stakes and consequences of this fall’s midterm elections.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Biden’s stern warning on extremism shows the rose-colored glasses are off

The president’s primetime speech named Trump and ‘Maga Republicans’ as a threat facing American democracy

The Guardian - US

Democracy, political violence and disputed elections: Five takeaways from Biden’s primetime speech

In primetime address, President Biden makes his clearest case against Trump

The Independent UK

Biden takes aim at Trump, 'MAGA Republicans' in prime-time speech

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden delivered an urgent call to the country Thursday night, asserting in a prime-time speech that American democracy remains in great peril and bluntly singling out the person he sees as the biggest threat to the system: former President Donald Trump.

Los Angeles Times

Biden is making defence of democracy itself a major campaign issue

Many Americans fear US democracy is in crisis. Biden’s speech is a response, writes Eric Garcia

The Independent UK

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In Philly speech, Biden says Trump and MAGA Republicans threaten ‘the foundations of our very republic’

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Biden says democracy ‘cannot survive’ if Trump supporters believe ‘either they win, or they were cheated’

President called election denial an attack on America’s ‘most fundamental freedom’ of voting

The Independent UK

Not Everything Bad is "Anti-Democratic" - and that which is Democratic isn't Always Good

Tyler Cowen explains why it's a mistake to conflate democracy with what is good and just.

Reason

Biden speech: ‘Democracy is under assault’ from election deniers and political violence, president warns - as it happened

The president called out Maga forces as a threat ‘to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the very soul of this country’

The Guardian - US

Kevin McCarthy backs Trump hoarding top secret papers, calling FBI search an ‘assault on democracy’

Republican leader in House frames the FBI raid as a partisan attack

The Independent UK

Biden attacks Trump, saying his wing of the Republican party is a threat to democracy

Biden says a faction of the Republican party tied to former President Donald Trump is "determined to take this country backwards." Republicans say he's being divisive.

WEKU

Trump and "MAGA forces" represent extremism, Biden says in primetime speech

"For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not."

Axios

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Bangkok Post

Judging by the cover

We first published A History Of Thailand in 2005, 17 years ago. We have just prepared a fourth edition, adding a new chapter on the extraordinary events since 2005, and over 200 other changes based on new research, mostly by Thai historians. We needed a new cover to signal that…

The Independent UK

‘A threat to the country’: Biden warns of Trump and GOP extremism threatening ‘the very foundations of our republic’

‘For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not’

The Guardian - US

Biden warns US democracy imperiled by Trump and Maga extremists

In a primetime address, the president further said the Republican party was ‘dominated, driven and intimidated’ by Trump

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Biden to speak on democracy amid renewed fight against ‘MAGA Republicans’

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden will deliver a speech in Philadelphia on Thursday as part of a newly aggressive swing hammering “MAGA Republicans” as he argues that democracy is at stake, again, in the upcoming midterm elections.

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Roll Call

Biden asks Americans to defend democracy in elections, politics - Roll Call

President Joe Biden warned of dire threats to American democracy from some Republicans at a prime-time address in Philadelphia on Thursday.

The Guardian - US

Biden’s speech will deliver a hard truth: American democracy is under grave threat

The essential political choice is no longer Democrat or Republican, left or right, liberal or conservative. It is democracy or authoritarian fascism

The Independent UK

Biden's prime-time speech to call out Trump, his loyalists

The November elections are less than 10 weeks away, and President Joe Biden plans to use a prime-time speech Thursday night at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to frame them as part of an ongoing battle for what he's calling the “soul of the nation.”

Salon

Don't celebrate too soon, Democrats

Republican hubris and overreach is leading toward dramatic payback — but Democrats' sugar high could be fleeting

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taiwan Sees Record 446 Air Incursions by China in August

Taiwan saw a record number of Chinese military air incursions in August, with more than 440 warplanes entering its air defense zone as Beijing raged against visits to the democratic island by United States lawmakers. Taiwan's 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by China, which sees…

The Independent UK

Biden news – live: President to warn ‘MAGA forces’ want to take US ‘backwards’ in primetime address

President Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania remarks will address antidemocratic agendas

Reuters

Taiwan president says she looks forward to producing 'democracy chips' with U.S

Taiwan looks forward to producing "democracy chips" with the United States, President Tsai Ing-wen told the visiting governor of the U.S. state of Arizona, Doug Ducey, on Thursday, the latest in a string of senior officials from the county to visit.

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