Could Donald Trump delay the US presidential election? ~news usa politics Article 1508 words 10 votes
Republicans are trying to kick thousands of voters off the US electoral rolls during a pandemic ~society politics Article 3600 words, published Apr 14 2020 12 votes
If the US postal service dies, so does democracy — Republicans are now trying to kill the post office and mail-in voting ~society politics Article 839 words 4 votes
Modern Venezuela shows the eerie conclusion of illiberal politics ~society politics Article 4172 words, published Feb 27 2020 5 votes
2020 elections: an expert on why you should be worried about your vote in 2020 ~society politics Article 1968 words, published Jan 30 2020 4 votes
The alarming scope of Presidential power during an emergency ~society politics Article 5574 words 4 votes
How the US has changed to become gradually more democratic over time ~society politics Video 25:00, published Mar 8 2019 4 votes
France turns to citizen-legislators to craft climate reforms ~enviro climate change Article 1715 words 4 votes
Why the Republican party turned undemocratic ~society politics Article 921 words, published Jul 24 2018 3 votes
“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy ~society politics Article 2228 words, published Jan 16 2020 13 votes
Pack the union: A proposal to admit new states for the purpose of amending the constitution to ensure equal representation ~society politics Article 6169 words, published Jan 10 2020 11 votes
How to fail at democracy 101: The Weimar Republic ~humanities.history Video 7:53, published Oct 22 2017 6 votes
Rhode Island lawsuit: Students sue for the right to learn civics ~humanities education Article 1576 words, published Dec 12 2019 16 votes
The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy ~tech internet Article 934 words 8 votes
Australia’s democracy has been downgraded from ‘open’ to ‘narrowed’ in the 2019 CIVICUS Monitor report ~news australia politics Article 396 words 9 votes
Hong Kong protests: Trump signs Human Rights and Democracy Act into law ~news hong kong china Article 528 words 18 votes
Former British Columbia lawmaker and deputy speaker of the BC government says he was detained by China in 2015, had his government phone searched, and was accused of "endangering national security". ~news canada.bc china Article 1654 words 6 votes
The Chinese military helped clean up Hong Kong's streets after protests. Some pro-democracy politicians are upset. ~news hong kong china Article 6 votes
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy ~tech facebook social media Article 6 votes
Climate breakdown, capatalism and democracy ~enviro climate change Article 2127 words, published Nov 2 2018 8 votes
How a social network could save democracy from deadlock ~tech social media Article 1045 words 13 votes
Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests ~tech android social media Article 1977 words 15 votes
‘We fear Hong Kong will become just another Chinese city’: An interview with Martin Lee, grandfather of democracy ~society politics Article 1296 words 8 votes
Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities ~tech Article 4461 words 18 votes
Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy ~finance economics business Article 2166 words 5 votes
Democracy devouring itself: The paper predicting the end of democracy ~science psychology political science Article 1812 words, published Sep 8 2019 20 votes
How Viktor Orban hollowed out Hungary’s democracy ~society politics Article 4040 words, published Aug 29 2019 6 votes
India rising: Can a giant democracy become an economic colossus? ~news india Article 3186 words, published Sep 3 2019 9 votes
Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy ~games.tabletop board games Article 1239 words 6 votes
The weaponisation of information is mutating at alarming speed ~tech privacy social media internet Article 887 words 11 votes
Should the US voting age be lowered to sixteen? ~society politics Article 1326 words, published Jul 29 2019 19 votes
Should political parties really let anyone run for president? ~society politics Article 1106 words, published Jul 25 2019 10 votes
Give political power to ordinary people: To fight elite capture of the state, it’s time to consider sortition, or the assignment of political power through lotteries ~society politics Article 2143 words 14 votes
Democracy's Dilemma: Democracies rely on free exchange of ideas and information, but that can also be weaponized. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—this? ~society politics Article 4619 words, published May 15 2019 11 votes
Craigslist's nerdy founder wants to change the world -- starting with your daily news ~tech Article 3335 words 11 votes
Facebook’s Libra and national monetary sovereignty: A tale of two monopolies ~finance cryptocurrency Article 914 words 4 votes
UK forms citizens’ assembly on climate change ~enviro climate change Article 567 words, published Jun 20 2019 7 votes