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After six years of anti-Western rants under former populist president Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines is beginning to embrace its role as part of a broader “Great Wall of Democracy” in Asia.
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The word “DEMOCRACY” was emblazoned in all-capital letters on the back wall of the stage at the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday, a seeming reminder of what is at stake ...
Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world.Now we're worried about whether democracy can ...
Whether global democracy programs are worth funding was central to a hearing Thursday held by a U.S. House Foreign Affairs subcommittee as Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., repeatedly asked how to ...
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. is pulling back from spreading democratic ideals abroad through Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and other outlets.
A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs. By Siobhan Roberts “Math is power” is the tag line of a new documentary, “Counted Out ...