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Taiwan president, US House speaker meet, defying China's threats

LOS ANGELES: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday met with US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy despite threats of unspecified retaliation from China, with the leader of the self-ruled island strident in her defense of democracy.

Bangkok Post

UK is on par with Russia for confidence in political system, study shows

Only one in six British people say they are highly satisfied with how the political system is functioning - with 32% dissatisfied

Wales Online

UK on par with Russia for confidence in political system, study shows

Just one in six (17%) of the British public polled say they are highly satisfied with how the political system is functioning.

The Independent UK

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Seth Meyers on Trump arrest: ‘How a healthy democracy and criminal justice system should be functioning’

Late-night hosts discuss the media circus around Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan on 34 charges of falsifying business records

The Guardian - US

American democracy faces a vital challenge with Trump’s circus

Trump and his supporters have given no indication that they are concerned about inciting unrest; they are encouraging it.

The New Daily

Trump’s indictment is about more than hush money – it’s a question of democracy

And it’s just the first of possibly many charges against the ex-president, the only US head of state to be charged with a crime

The Guardian - US

First Thing: Trump attacks hush money case in grievance-filled Mar-a-Lago speech

Former president appeared subdued in New York, only to return to his inflammatory ways in Florida. Plus, the campaigners using using dating apps to boost voter turnout

The Guardian - UK

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Minn GOPer: Democracy "not a good thing"

A spending bill in the Minnesota legislature would enjoin the state to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Salon

Editorial: A democracy summit amid turbulent times

Opinion editor's note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom.

Tribune News Service

Five crucial questions for France's Macron as he embarks on Chinese trip

As French President Emmanuel Macron starts his four-day visit to China, he will have to keep in mind Beijing's attitude on several crucial questions. These include democracy in Hong Kong and the status of the independent nationalist island of Taiwan.

Radio France Internationale

‘I’ll always support him’: Republicans back Trump as he faces charges

Many on the right liken the legal battle to an attack on democracy itself and have made threats to the district attorney

The Guardian - US

Liberal judge wins Wisconsin supreme court election, flipping ideological balance

Abortion rights, redistricting and election rules were at stake in decision affecting key swing state

The Guardian - US

Beneath the Trump circus, American democracy faces up to a vital challenge

Former US President Donald J Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts in New York. In the words of Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, Trump is accused of making “34 false statements”, themselves “made to cover up other crimes”. Those crimes include a “conspiracy to promote a candidacy by…

The Conversation

Tyranny's propagandists triumph

If democracy had its own doomsday clock, it would be at two minutes to midnight. According to the most recent analysis by Varieties of Democracy (known as V-Dem), 72% of the world's population lived in autocracies last year, compared to 50% a decade ago. For the first time in more…

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Tribune News Service

Noah Feldman: Trump indictment is a risky bet for New York and the nation

The criminal indictment of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is historic and unprecedented. It stands for the principle that, in the United States, no one is above the law.

France 24

For Taiwan, war in Ukraine serves as potent reminder of threat from China

Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Taiwan has shown unwavering support for Kyiv. The invasion of a young democracy by its larger neighbour is indeed a situation that hits close to home in Taiwan. Though the archipelago is more than 8,000 kilometres away, the situation facing Ukrainians…

Salon

Dominion's Fox suit: Just the beginning

Fox News told vicious lies that damaged our democracy, all in the pursuit of profit. That has to change

The Conversation

How the indictment of Donald Trump is a 'strange and different' event for America, according to political scientists

The indictment of a former president of the United States, Donald Trump, is history happening in real time. The Conversation asked political scientists James D. Long and Victor Menaldo, both at the University of Washington, to help readers understand the meaning of this moment in the U.S. The two scholars…

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Reason

Debate: The U.S. Should Increase Funding for the Defense of Ukraine

Does Ukraine face an existential risk? Does it matter?

The Guardian - US

The most consequential politics story in the US isn’t the Trump arraignment

In Wisconsin, voters will choose a new judge for the supreme court and a senator for the state legislature. These elections could decide the future of the US

Reason

Introducing Reason's 2023 Debate Issue

Where libertarians debate democracy, open borders, cats and dogs, and more

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Banking, democracy and trust

In a key scene in the classic Frank Capra film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” George Bailey (played by a noble, sincere James Stewart), faced with a run on his family-owned bank instigated by the evil, grasping Old Man Potter (played by a sneering Lionel Barrymore), tries to convince his friends…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: Elected leaders in Israel, Poland, and Hungary are following the 'autocrat's playbook'

A couple of weeks ago, as I moderated a discussion at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House on the heated battle to control Israel's courts, the talk turned to "the elected autocrat's playbook."

Bangkok Post

To reconstruct Turkey, rebuild its democracy

The devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey (and at least 7,000 in northern Syria) in February have exposed deep-rooted problems in the run-up to potentially epochal presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14. Turkey, it is now clear, needs more than a change of government; it…

Texas Observer

Dragging Democracy into the Future

As the Texas Observer survives to muckrake another day, Steven Monacelli highlights the battle for democracy happening in the Lone Star State.

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