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The year the judiciary turned its gaze to the media

While there has been ample criticism of the media from within the fraternity, there were several moments this year when the Indian judiciary also sat up and lashed out at sections of the fourth pillar of democracy.

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Clara Ferreira Marques: Mind the gap between the West and the rest

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress just days before Christmas — his first trip abroad since Russia’s invasion 10 months ago — he described a triumph against the Kremlin in the “battle for the minds of the world.”

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T-Squared: Before I go, one final pitch to support The Texas Tribune

It’s been fun. It’s been real. It’s been a calling more than a job. And it’s been an honor — the honor of my lifetime.

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Trump's in trouble — and still dangerous

Yes, he really may be prosecuted, and his 2024 prospects are fading. But the danger to democracy isn't nearly over

Salon

Commentary: Congress’ fix to presidential votes lights the way for broader election reform

A massive eleventh-hour spending bill stuffed with thinly vetted backroom deals might seem proof of our political dysfunction. But the omnibus bill approved by Congress last week has democracy fans cheering — because it includes changes to presidential vote counting that could literally save our democracy. Thankfully, the old Electoral…

Tribune News Service

Israel's Netanyahu Back with Extreme-right Government

After a stint in opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu will return to power in Israel on Thursday, leading what analysts describe as the most right-wing government in the country's history. Senior security and law enforcement officials have already voiced concern over its direction, as have Palestinians. "It becomes for Netanyahu's partners a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Albanese lauds peaceful Fijian election

A successful democratic election in Fiji has been welcomed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who warned of a clash between democracy and autocracy.

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Why aren't children allowed to vote? An expert debunks the arguments against

Most people think democracy is something that adults do and regard the prospect of children voting as too silly to even contemplate. In the early 20th century, many democracies began (ostensibly) operating with universal suffrage, ensuring voting rights were no longer withheld from adults on the basis of wealth or…

The Conversation

UK democracy still recovering after another turbulent year, says Speaker

Sir Lindsay Hoyle acknowledged that the political turmoil of the last year left Britain an international laughing stock.

The Independent UK

Tory turmoil made UK ‘laughing stock’ in 2022, says Speaker Lindsay Hoyle

British democracy ‘still struggling to recover’, says Commons speaker

The Independent UK

Democracy depends on whistleblowers

Cassidy Hutchinson made an imperfect hero. But her kind of courage is crucial to protecting our fragile democracy

Salon

Editorial: Protests in Iran and China, and defense of Ukraine, exemplify human yearning for liberty

The human spirit yearns for freedom and rebels against a regrettably human penchant for asserting dominion over others. The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to stem the spread of disease fed a streak of authoritarian nationalism in some nations such as Hungary and Brazil — so it’s a welcome surprise to…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Adam Schiff: What comes after the Jan. 6 committee report

Last week, the House Jan. 6 committee conducted its last hearing and issued its final report. And we’ve begun releasing the voluminous evidence gathered during the course of our investigation in the form of witness interview transcripts, exhibits, text messages, emails, videos and more.

Los Angeles Times

Taiwan to extend military service to one year to preserve 'democracy and freedom' amid growing China threat

President Tsai Ing-wen announces that compulsory military service will be extended from four months to one year, after reporting China's largest-ever incursion into the island's air defence zone.

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Commentary: Don’t be too tempted by Europe’s plan to fix social media

For many Americans, social media has become a monster. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are seen as festering hotbeds of hate and misinformation that threaten the very foundations of American democracy and civility. Calls for regulation have intensified, with some prominent voices looking across the pond for a model…

Tribune News Service

Martin Schram: Putin’s and Trump’s un-secret wars on democracy

Nonstop cable news presenters were agog and aghast. They warned us, last Wednesday, that we were about to witness an epic moment. Their news worlds were about to collide.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Democracy won in 2022. Now, we have to set the bar higher

For many reasons, 2022 was a resounding victory for democracy. Voters in several more cities across the country passed ranked-choice voting and other powerful anti-corruption laws. Election liars failed to seize control of voting in the states that will decide the 2024 election. The violence and mayhem that many predicted…

Manchester Evening News

I took the Greater Manchester bus journey quite unlike any other - and it's left me very confused

'Hopeful passengers were told by the driver “it’s one off one on now”, before it set off again.'

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'I'd been in lockdown with just my dogs for two years - until a letter transformed my life'

"Love thy neighbour is the attitude"

Tribune News Service

Matthew Yglesias: This Congress showed that democracy can work

The 117th Congress opened with the political bang of Donald Trump’s second impeachment and is ending with the legislative bang of a $1.7 trillion spending bill.

Bangkok Post

Suu Kyi to hear final rulings soon

A junta court in Myanmar could hand down the final rulings in the 18-month trial of Aung San Suu Kyi next week, closing the latest chapter in the military’s decades-long battle with the democracy figurehead.

Al Jazeera

Sitiveni ‘Rambo’ Rabuka confirmed as Fiji’s new prime minister

Outgoing Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said after losing nomination vote: ‘This is democracy and this is my legacy.’

Salon

Zelenskyy visit opens rift in GOP

Too many Republicans still refuse to stand up for Ukraine — and for democracy — against their MAGA brethren

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 takeaways: From Trump's lies to the 'unimaginable'

The House Jan. 6 committee has released its final report on the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol

Fortune

Elon Musk’s Twitter polls are a perversion of direct democracy. Here are the real governance models that underpin his rule

Elon Musk puts up a cynical veil of stakeholder governance and democracy, while in reality instating a tyrannical rule.

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