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How Democracy Won the World’s First Coronavirus Election

In the midst of a global pandemic, “South Korea has drawn on its strengths as a liberal society to address the public health crisis — and this week its people doubled-down on democracy by turning out…

Mark Carney on how the economy must yield to human values

"In recent years, the market economy has become the market society. The virus could reverse that trend" (Carney, 2020)

Will This Public Health Crisis Lead to a Voting Rights Crisis?

Moyers interviews journalist David Daley, who states that we are seeing an “intense politicization of democracy and voting rights itself. And that plays against a background of this last decade and…

World Federalism, Global Democracy and Coronavirus

"The coronavirus crisis shows the consequences of the enormous contradiction under which seven billion human beings live now: a world globalized by technology and economy but politically divided into…

Europe Poised to Repeat Austerity Mistakes in Coronavirus Response

“The European Union is ill suited for crisis...it’s all happening again over Covid-19, this time amplified by fear and death on a continent struggling with half of the world’s 1.4 million confirmed…

Is This Tyranny? Notes from the election’s sidelines

"A funny thing happened in 2008: I lost the right to vote. Having been a non-resident of Canada for five years, I could no longer cast an absentee ballot. And not being a citizen of the United…

Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus

“Many Americans now rely on digital tools to work remotely and stay connected. They shouldn’t have to sacrifice their privacy to use them” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).

The Virus in the Body Politic

"In authoritarian China and democracies such as the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the infections that societies have left in each other – and the loss of a sense of shared destiny"…

There Is An Antidote to Our Fear. It’s Called Leadership

“If the coronavirus crisis is analogous to a war — and I believe that it is — Mr. Trump’s initial Easter forecast bears a chilling resemblance to the hollow promises made at the onset of other…

The Virus Comes for Democracy

“Whatever advantages autocracy might offer for shaping a response to the pandemic, it becomes truly dangerous when the strongman chooses to deny the threat or to give some alternative narrative”…