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Jonathan Bernstein: The plot darkens in the latest episode of Jan. 6 hearings

The most important comments from the third public hearing this month of the House Jan. 6 committee came right at the end. After the panel heard testimony detailing the efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to illegally try to overturn the election, former Judge J. Michael Luttig pointed out…

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In a time of national division, polarizing primaries are part of the problem

It is said the best medicine for what ails democracy is more democracy. But what does more democracy mean? If it just means more of the kind of politics we have now then it hardly offers a remedy.

WEKU

Pleas for help as Myanmar awaits high-profile executions

The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar's ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.

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US removes relative of Venezuela’s Maduro from sanctions list

Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, an ex-national treasurer, was put on blacklist in 2017 on charges of undermining democracy.

Al Jazeera

Indyref2 'good news for democracy everywhere', former Catalan president says

A SECOND Scottish independence referendum is “good news for democracy around the world”, a former president of Catalonia has said in a…

The National (Scotland)

Trump weighs another run as GOP rivals eye own campaigns

Former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempts to remain in power by challenging American democracy have been thrown back into the spotlight by the Jan. 6 committee, with harrowing footage and searing testimony from his closest aides and family

The Independent UK

Russian warship violated Danish territorial waters in Baltic -Danish military

A Russian warship early on Friday twice violated Danish territorial waters north of the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm where a democracy festival attended by senior lawmakers and business people was taking place, the Danish Armed Forces said.

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The January 6 hearings aren’t acknowledging the elephant in the room

The attack on the US Capitol wasn’t the isolated doing of Trump and a few loyalists. Nearly the entire Republican party is now united behind it – and the attack on democracy hasn’t ended

The Guardian - US

Andrew Olle lecture: Without stronger press freedoms and protections for public-interest journalism, democracy is at risk

Australians will only rely upon the mainstream media as an essential part of our civic and democratic life if they can trust we are able to expose the spin and lies and misinformation, and deliver the facts and truth, writes Ita Buttrose.

ABC News

American monster: Yes, but who made him?

Maureen Dowd's description overlooks a crucial point: It took decades of America's decay to birth this monster

Salon

Commentary: Election subversion remains a threat, but some voting restrictions go too far

As the first public hearings about the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection underscored, the biggest current threat to the integrity of American elections is election subversion — i.e., efforts to interfere with or overturn the counting of votes or certification of elections. No genuine democracy retroactively changes election law after a…

Tribune News Service

‘System nearly failed’: US democracy was left hanging by the thread of Pence’s defiance

If the vice-president had acquiesced to Trump’s demand, the country could have plunged into an unprecedented crisis

The Guardian - US

A half a century after Nixon's Watergate shook democracy, Trump has trumped him

Fifty years ago Friday, burglars broke into the Watergate Hotel in Washington, the first chapter of a story that would transform American politics. The anniversary comes as Congress investigates the greatest constitutional crisis since then. Just as Watergate-era leaders instituted important reforms to address the weaknesses of the system that…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bill Clinton says he’s ‘never’ been more worried about US democracy than in Trump era

US has slipped in democracy rankings in recent years

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Trump a ‘clear and present danger to US democracy’, conservative judge warns

J Michael Luttig testifies that the ex-president and his supporters are preparing an ‘attempt to overturn 2024 election’ as they did in 2020

WEKU

American democracy is more vulnerable now than on Jan. 6, Schiff says amid hearings

American democracy is more vulnerable today than it was on January 6 because the "big lie" that Donald Trump won the 2020 election has spread, says Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

The Independent UK

‘Democracy is on a knife’s edge’: J Michael Luttig’s full statement to the January 6 committee

J Michael Luttig advised then-vice president Mike Pence against participating in Donald Trump’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election results . He speaks to the January 6 committee today.

Salon

Jan. 6 probe zeroes in on Ginni Thomas

New Ginni Thomas revelations prove that the Supreme Court is a corrupt, failed institution

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‘An affront to our democracy’: Retired judge who advised Pence will tell Jan 6 panel Trump’s plan was to ‘steal America’s democracy’

‘The treacherous plan was no less ambitious than to steal America’s democracy’

Reuters

Tunisia's Saied unpicks young 'Arab Spring' democracy

President Kais Saied has gathered nearly all state power in his hands after dismantling much of Tunisia's young democracy over 11 turbulent months. But as he prepares for a referendum to approve his changes, challenges loom ever larger.

Reuters

Myanmar junta calls return of executions 'required action'

Myanmar ruling military on Thursday defended a planned execution of two prominent democracy figures as lawful and required, defying international criticism for resuming capital punishment after a three-decade hiatus.

The Independent UK

What happened on 6 January 2021?

Botched assault on cradle of American democracy by misguided Donald Trump supporters remembered as deeply shameful climax to his chaotic and divisive reign

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: The success of the 'big lie' in GOP primaries endangers the party, and democracy

Last month we listed some encouraging examples of candidates who won recent Republican primaries despite rejecting former President Donald Trump’s false claim of a stolen 2020 election. Now comes The Washington Post to establish, ominously, that this isn’t necessarily the norm in this midterm election year. An analysis by the…

Tribune News Service

PRO: Universal voting makes sense for a full and healthy democracy

In our book “100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting,” E.J. Dionne and I make a case for universal voting — that voting should be a required civic duty for every American citizen.

Tribune News Service

CON: Mandatory voting is a bad, unconstitutional idea

A handful of countries, most notably Australia, impose mandatory voting, with citizens facing fines and punishments if they don’t appear at the polls. And every few years, somebody proposes bringing this practice to the United States as a good-government reform that would allegedly improve the health of our democracy.

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