How the US has changed to become gradually more democratic over time ~misc 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 ~misc politics Article 921 words, published Jul 24 2018 3 votes
“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy ~misc 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 ~misc 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 ~misc 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 ~misc 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 voting age be lowered to sixteen? ~misc politics Article 1326 words, published Jul 29 2019 19 votes
Should political parties really let anyone run for president? ~misc 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 ~misc 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? ~misc 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
Environmental reporting can help protect citizens in emerging democracies ~enviro pollution Article 1108 words, published May 31 2019 4 votes
Defeating the voters: Across the United States, state autocrats are spurning democratic majorities ~humanities Article 2142 words, published May 14 2019 15 votes
Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy ~news finland journalism Article 23 votes
Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long term ~misc politics Article 1893 words, published Mar 5 2019 13 votes