Democracy
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Anand Teltumbde: Not more MPs, Indian democracy needs citizens to have a greater say in governance
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Nepal’s election is referendum on its future and democracy in South Asia
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How Modi’s policies and India’s monopolists are weakening labour power – and democracy
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Is the insistence on the ‘truth’ harming democracy?
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Is democracy the ‘worst’, as Winston Churchill once said? Five experts weigh in
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Chile’s new president is an arch-conservative and ardent supporter of the Pinochet dictatorship
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Two ancient Athenian ideals of free speech for today’s dangerously loud social media era
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With data suppression and manipulation, democracies take a leaf out of authoritarian playbook
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Myanmar: Military regime is certain to win elections that imperil exile government’s future
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Principled politics: Zohran Mamdani’s masterclass for India’s Opposition after Bihar loss
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South Africans have lost trust in key institutions. What does this mean for democracy?
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Anand Teltumbde: The Opposition’s Bihar delusion and the illusion of democracy
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Elon Musk and the troubling relationship between social media giants and democratic politics
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Do businesses have a moral responsibility to stand up to autocrats?
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Nepal’s army is in the driver’s seat for the first time – and it won’t be good for democracy
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Julio Ribeiro: Doubts over right to vote endanger Indian democracy
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LA protests give Trump the excuse he needed to deploy force against his own people
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Bangladesh’s democratic fabric frays further
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Turkey: How Islamic nationalism has curtailed freedoms and become a tool for exclusion
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At the edge of an abyss, what Germany and India could learn from each other
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Academic freedom is intertwined with democracy – a Nobel Peace Prize could recognise this
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The USA’s latest puppet regime – the USA
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Beyond the dream: What India can learn from Martin Luther King Jr’s lessons for public change
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Elon Musk: The oligarch who tweets democracy away
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Power in chaos: Trump’s brand of ‘disaster politics’ could inspire more autocrats – and democracies
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Political crisis simmers in South Korea with President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed arrest
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Israel: An indefensible ‘democracy’
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2024: In democracy’s most testing year, disruptions, discontent and defiance
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How can authoritarian rulers be rolled back? Accurate information for citizens holds the key
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In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative?
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Minorities in Bangladesh: What the government must do to restore trust
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Romania: How far-right candidate in race for presidency manipulated TikTok
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South Korea: Martial law was short lived but political crisis remains. What’s next?
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Trump victory energises global far-right, will accelerate anti-democratic trend
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Mauritius election: Scandals, low public trust and inflation give Opposition coalition clean sweep
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Ahead of elections, Mauritius’s attempt to ban social media reflects dwindling rights
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A pathway to authoritarianism?: The real problem with geriatric politicians
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Anti-India? Pro-Pakistan? What two recent events in Dhaka say about democracy in Bangladesh
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Why the election noise in Kashmir is a symptom of democratic deep freeze
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s moral courage and Myanmar’s long to walk to freedom
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‘Moral decoupling’: Why voters support politicians despite their ethical failings
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How Hindutva is reshaping India’s classrooms
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The Dutch are drawing a line – to keep populists out of power. Can other countries do so as well?
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The glaring oversight in the US Congressional report on Bhutan’s long struggle for democracy
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Chandigarh mayor resigns ahead of SC hearing on alleged poll rigging, three AAP councillors join BJP
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‘Murder of democracy, prosecute presiding officer’, says Supreme Court on Chandigarh mayoral polls
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As Indian democracy comes under siege, what can Indian-Americans do?
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Indian democracy was always fragile – but decades of effort to nourish it are being undermined
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How the ancient Greeks practised ‘direct democracy’ – and kept ruthless narcissists out of power
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What happens to democracy when AI aimed at helping a candidate win elections is deployed?
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How ‘Mother of democracy’, ‘Vishwaguru’ rhetoric is a buffer against Western criticism of India
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Kavita Krishnan: The Left must change course – it is speaking the same language that tyrants do
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How to turn a country over to the mob
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The global erosion of democracy has opened up space for China’s authoritarianism to spread
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Tale of two Constitutions: As Chile drafts a pluralistic future, some Indians aim for Hindu rashtra
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India at 75: Championing democracy abroad, hollowing it out at home
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India retains ‘partially free’ status for second year in Freedom House’s 2022 report
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Ex-CJI Venkatachalaiah’s prescription for India: ‘The cure for ills of democracy is more democracy’
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Report lowering India’s status to ‘partly free’ under Modi is ‘misleading’, says Centre
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India loses its status as ‘free’ in Freedom House’s 2021 report
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Why the British developed the idea of impeachment and then abandoned it
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Jay Panda: India’s parliament is paralysed by 19th-century rules