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A Radical Proposal for True Democracy
“You’ve heard people say, “We’re a republic, not a democracy.” Landemore’s challenge is this: What if we were a democracy? We honor those who came before us for radically reimagining who could govern, and how politics could work. But did they really discover the terminal state of democracy? Or are there bold steps left for us to take?” (Ezra Klein, 2021).
Community Power: The Evidence
This report draws out six benefits from community power – and presents four shifts and four recommendations we need for it to flourish. It also explores the ‘evidence paradox’ that is holding back community power – looking at how to overhaul the way we measure success.
A pandemic of abuses': human rights under attack during Covid, says UN head
“The world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said. Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to restrict free speech and stifle dissent” (Kelly and Pattisson, 2021).
Technocracy Meets Direct Democracy In Italy
“With the exception of Taiwan’s advanced digital democracy, including an annual presidential hackathon where millions of citizens participate online in setting the governing agenda, Italy is undertaking the most fascinating experiment in democratic innovation across the West today” (Nathan Gardels, 2021).
No Time to Waste
“Saving the planet from catastrophic climate change will require not only a dramatic increase in funding for clean-energy research and development. We need innovation in policy just as much as in technology” (Bill Gates interviewed by Connir Hedegaard).
America’s Other Forever War
“Ideally, America would stop besieging weaker nations because it hurts them. Unfortunately, we’re unlikely to stop until it hurts us” (Peter Beinart, 2021).
Is Democracy in Myanmar Dead?
“Democracy advocates must quickly rally to develop a strategy to foil the Tatmadaw’s. Rather than making rhetorical demands...or demands that the military simply won’t accede to at this point...they must use the current protests as leverage to obtain, via international negotiators, that the Tatmadaw won’t disband or otherwise sideline the N.L.D.” (Min Zin, 2021).
The Way Out of America’s Zero-Sum Thinking on Race and Wealth
“The anti-government stinginess of traditional conservatism, along with the fear of losing social status held by many white people, now broadly associated with Trumpism, have long been connected. Both have sapped American society’s strength for generations, causing a majority of white Americans to rally behind the draining of public resources and investments” (Heather McGhee, 2021).
Foreign Aid Is Having a Reckoning
“This recent push for change mirrors a trend taking place in philanthropy inside the United States: Leaders of American private foundations are increasingly willing to grapple publicly with the fact that organizations run by Black and brown people face far steeper hurdles to funding than white-run organizations do” (NYT Editorial Board, 2021).
Should We Dim The Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice?
“We are past the point when we have the luxury of saying that things like geoengineering are off limits because we shouldn’t change the world that much. We’ve already changed it so much that the unthinkable now has to be thought” (Elizabeth Kolbert and Ezra Klein, 2021).
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