“Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which leaves them open to claims of censorship and masks the true costs of misinformation” (Joan Donovan, 2020).
“From an international perspective,...Trump is just one more example of the many populists on the right who have risen to power around the world...these people win elections but subvert democratic…
“Looking at the bigger picture, Democrats were done in by extreme voices that Mr. Trump was able to link to their party. Defunding the police will never be popular outside a few lefty precincts. The…
“The process of registering your democratic preference, the citizen’s core duty in a democracy. Can we take a moment to acknowledge how terribly inefficient, inaccessible, unfair and just plain…
If Facebook and Twitter functions “replaced algorithmically tailored and targeted newsfeeds with ones that simply displayed the most recent posts first, the sites would become less enraging — but…
“What is the right historical analogy to America’s current crisis? The truth is, there is no precedent. We have never seen such a longstanding democracy in such a rich country break down before —…
“Tensions persist among today’s great powers” and China and the United States “are on a collision course fueled by the dynamics of a power transition and their competition for status and prestige,…
“In the months after the virus first surfaced, governments stepped in to address the concomitant economic and health crises...But it is not enough for governments to simply intervene...they should…
President Macron’s “notion of “separatism” seems to assume that a significant minority of Muslims are tempted to set themselves apart somehow from the rest of French society...but this diagnostic is…
“When minorities are pushed...they may retreat into a siege mentality that breeds radicalization. But India’s Muslims...have embraced and emphasized the blessings of liberal democracy by placing…
