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Reckoning with Racism: A Challenge for Deliberative Democracy
“This review aims to deepen understanding of both scholars and practitioners about how to reckon with racism in the midst of overlapping and intersecting crises. The works reviewed here extend calls made within deliberative democracy scholarship and activist practice to disrupt harmful patterns of dialogic engagement” (Brooks and Gutterman, 2021).
The Wisdom of Small Crowds: The Case for Using Citizens' Juries to Shape Policy
The article promotes the use of Citizens’ Juries to shape policy, arguing that these Juries serve as a small representation of the public and, along with cynical expertise, can shape better policy and bring together different viewpoints for deliberation.
Reconsidering Taiwan's Place in the International Order: Lessons from the WHO and ICAO
In this article, Michael Mazza explains that “Taiwan has been excluded from partaking in the conversation about ensuring global public health”, and claims that as a response to this exclusion and that of the ICAO, Taiwan should encourage overhauling the rules-based order from which it has been excluded. (Mazza 2021)
Biden’s Great Game
“Considered in isolation, some of the Biden administration's recent decisions on sanctions and transatlantic diplomacy may seem overly accommodating. But looming over everything – including Biden's upcoming European tour – is the pursuit of a united Western policy to deal with an increasingly aggressive China” (Krauss 2021).
Obama Explain How America Went From "Yes We Can" to "MAGA"
“This is a conversation with Obama about both the successes and failures of his presidency” (The Ezra Klein Show, 2021).
How Young G.O.P. Leaders Sold Out Their Generation
“Ms. Stefanik’s rise — and her colleagues’ fall — ...it’s a broader omen for a party struggling to reach a 21st-century electorate...she and other new Trump loyalists in Congress are caught between their party and their generations, stuck between their immediate ambitions and the long-term trends” (Charlotte Atler, 2021).
Is America’s Democracy Slipping Away?
“We are entering a new era of extreme restriction, of white supremacy and white oligarchy, and Republicans are attempting to maintain power by redefining democracy backward.... back to a time when white people had complete control of the halls of power, the levers of industry and the crafting of narrative” (Charles M. Blow, 2021).
Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo
“The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not” (Rebecca Solnit, 2021).
Vaccinate the World! The Best Investment Ever.
“Wealthy countries would do so much better economically with a global vaccination campaign that curbed the pandemic that they would generate an additional $1 trillion in tax revenue, the I.M.F. calculated. In short, this vaccine initiative would pay for itself many times over simply in extra tax revenue” (Nicholas Kristof, 2021).
How Covid-19 is deepening democratic backsliding and geopolitical competition in the Western Balkans
"Several countries in the Western Balkans have responded to the Covid-19 outbreak with draconian measures that entail a further erosion of democracy, writes Natasha Wunsch. She argues the pandemic is shining a spotlight on the impact of geopolitical competition in the Western Balkans, where authoritarian forces are undermining the EU’s democracy promotion efforts." (Wunsch, 2020).
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