Left or right, make up your mind Every four years, America elects a president and this guy for better or for worse determines which direction the country goes for the next four years. If he is re-elected, he has four more years to lead the country further down the same direction. Obam...
Besides the fact that they generally have a limited time to cover certain stories (you can always learn more) you should be able to confirm or deny what you’re being told. Democracy Now gives you the tools to do that. This transparency is why I continue to return to Democracy Now to ...
progressive taxation, equal rights, and opposition to income inequality. Democracy Now does not report favorably on former President Trump:Human Rights Attorney to Trump: “Israel Is Not Interested in the Golan Heights for Security.”In general, most stories favor the left and denigrate the right....
Democracy is the right of the people in every country rather than the prerogative of a few countries. Whether a country is democratic or not should be determined by its people, because democracy manifests itself in many forms. The practice of asserting a single model of political structure igno...
As society becomes more complex it is no longer fitting to have to vote for one-size-fits-all political parties and manifestos. We don’t have to conform to the straightjackets of left or right wing thinking. By using deliberative democracy principles like citizens juries and assemblies issues...
In this case, we consider a country i as experiencing a commodity price boom episode at time t if: (1) \(\log \left( \frac{{\overline{xm}}_{it}}{{\overline{xm}}_{it-1}}\right) \,>\,0\); (2) \(\log \left( \frac{\overline{xm\_gdp}_{it}}{\overline{xm\_gdp}_{it...
Mark G. E. Kelly argues that the real game-changer in the election was Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter (now X), providing right-wing perspectives with a mass outlet to counter the left-wing dominance of the rest of the media landscape. In assessing the consequences of the election, ...
People’s prevailing con-cern over their wellbeing ‘now’ rather than ‘to-morrow’ generates competition among political right and left for higher social spending, leading to high public debt. Neither left, nor right can guarantee sustainable limits for social benef ts and public debt. Capping...
2. Second, others have argued that a society must have a division of labor. If everyone were engaged in the complex and difficult task of politics, little time or energy would be left for the other essential tasks of a society. Conversely, if we expect most people to engage in other dif...
“There’s something dangerous happening in America now,” Biden said, arguing that the far-right movement within the Republican party was out of step with the “basic beliefs of our democracy.” The stark message was Biden’s most forceful attempt at calling out Trump’s antidemocratic behavio...