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Can India re-imagine South Asia?

If New Delhi does not take the lead, the region cannot respond to various crises collectively

The Hindu

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 23 (May 19, 2022)

In this issue: Takeaways from five states’ primaries and another possible incumbent-vs.-incumbent primary in NY

Ballotpedia

Senate approves $40bn aid for Ukraine despite MAGA senators’ resistance

The aid package now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for signature

The Independent UK

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Twenty years on from independence: New Zealand in Timor-Leste

At the turn of the millennium, the Timorese people voted for independence from Indonesia. Twenty years on, The Detail talks to New Zealanders who played a part in building a new democracy.

Newsroom.co.nz

Trump claims immigrants are voting illegally. The real problem is foreign fat cats funding US campaigns

Non-Americans – whose interests don’t necessarily align with the interests of the US – assert growing influence over American politics

The Guardian - US

Biden must tell white folks the truth

Biden's Buffalo speech was remarkable — but not enough. He has a historic duty to speak directly to white America

Salon

Twitter can't get enough of Mhairi Black's brilliant speech about fascism in the UK

THE UK is “sleepwalking” towards fascism, Mhairi Black has told the House of Commons.

The National (Scotland)

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Game-changing Democracy Sausage website helps voters make crucial election decision

Not all polling places are equal when it comes to the election-day sausage sizzle tradition, and that is where the Democracy Sausage website comes in.

The New Daily

He became a hero for halting Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Will voters now punish him?

The Georgia secretary of state resisted Trump’s call to overturn the presidential election result and is now facing his ire

The Guardian - US

Ending Roe v Wade is just the beginning

Conservatives are animated by a vision of 1950s-style white Christian patriarchal dominance – it is the only order they will accept for America

The Guardian - US

Thousands respond to Australian Electoral Commission's urgent call for election workers

Despite the surge in applications, more workers are still needed on election day. Meanwhile, some Australians with COVID will be unable to vote after the postal deadline closed.

ABC News

George Bush in embarrassing gaffe as he condemns 'unjustified invasion of Iraq' in Ukraine mix-up

Speaking about the importance of democracy and the lack of it in Russia, Bush said it gave Vladimir Putin the green light to attack its neighbour.

Daily Record

George Bush blasts Vladimir Putin's 'brutal IRAQ invasion' in excruciating gaffe

Former US President George Bush was speaking about the importance of democracy when he said the "unjustified and brutal" invasion of Iraq when he meant to say Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Gunman targets Taiwanese faith with long pro-democracy link

Officials in California's Orange County are still trying to determine why a gunman opened fire in a Taiwanese Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods

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Al Jazeera

Can the independents upset Australia’s political status quo?

As trust in the major parties declines, independents hope to win over voters in Saturday’s election.

Reuters

U.S. Brazil envoy nominee sees 'free and fair election' despite Bolsonaro allegations

Brazil's democracy can support "free and fair elections" in October despite Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's statements against the country's electoral body, said Elizabeth Bagley, U.S. President Joe Biden's nominee to be ambassador in Brasilia, on Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Taiwanese church shooting suspect mailed 7-volume diary to Chinese-language newspaper

LOS ANGELES — A man charged with fatally shooting one person and injuring five others at a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods mailed seven volumes titled “Diary of an Independence-Destroying Angel” to the Los Angeles offices of the World Journal, the Chinese-language newspaper reported Wednesday.

Reuters

Brazilian jurists call on U.N. to report on Bolsonaro attacks on judiciary

Brazil's democracy and independence of its judiciary are under threat from the government of president Jair Bolsonaro as it prepares for elections in October, a group of lawyers and legal experts said on Wednesday in a petition to the United Nations.

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Reason

Bryan Caplan on "Misinformation About Misinformation"

One of the world's leading experts on public knowledge and ignorance explains why consumers of misinformation are often as much to blame as producers.

Reason

Pennsylvania Democrats Say Doug Mastriano Is a Danger to Democracy. Why Did They Help Him Win?

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro ran ads that boosted Mastriano's GOP primary campaign. There's no way this strategy could ever backfire, right?

Salon

GOP drops the flash, keeps the fascism

GOP voters still love Trump — but now realize it's easier for authoritarians to win if they put people to sleep

Reason

Biden Is Right: We Shouldn't Restrict Americans in the Name of Liberating Cuba

A new White House policy faces one of the most malignant foreign policy objections: that it's not a magic wand for regime change.

The Conversation

Public education is supposed to prepare an informed citizenry – elementary teachers have just two hours a week to teach social studies

The founders of the United States were intentionally building a nation based on the ideals of the Enlightenment, a movement centered on individual happiness, knowledge and reason. This new approach to defining a country – rather than basing it on language, ethnicity or geographic proximity – meant the new United…

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon accused of 'grotesque opportunism' over Scottish independence comments

The First Minister used an interview in Washington DC to claim independence would allow Scotland to become a "constructive voice" in the world.

Tribune News Service

Jonathan Bernstein: Biden stuck up for democracy in Buffalo

President Joe Biden spoke in Buffalo on Tuesday after visiting the families of victims of a racist mass shooting in a supermarket there on Saturday. It was a speech that’s likely to get lost in the current-events shuffle, but it shouldn’t. It was a good one, well written and well…

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