Tag: democracy
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Xi Jinping’s latest power grab is bad news for China’s economy » Since the heady days of Mao Zedong’s dictatorship, the president of China has been limited to two five-year… more ›
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It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech » For most of modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being… more ›
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Bad remedies “That Facebook, Twitter, and Google — which, by the way, holds just as much if not more power than Facebook, but without the attendant media scrutiny — have… more ›
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John Kelly and the Language of the Military Coup » Consider this nightmare scenario: a military coup. You don’t have to strain your imagination—all you have to do is watch… more ›
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What Facebook Did to American Democracy » In the media world, as in so many other realms, there is a sharp discontinuity in the timeline: before the 2016 election, and… more ›
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Have the Rich Become “Super Citizens”? » Modern philanthropy was born in the early 20th century, with the birth of the Russell Sage Foundation. In 1907, the foundation was founded… more ›