Lee says Myanmar is among several examples globally of authoritarian leadership using Covid-19 to further restrict measures on movement, meetings, and communication. “You see this happening around the world. Some very authoritarian leadership have used this pandemic as an excuse to crackdown on ...
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For uniformed participants in queer life to demand that civilian society conform to the rigid notions of homogeneity and the authoritarian demands of artificial hierarchies required by military life is insulting to the very idea of democratic pluralism, and casts those uniformed participants in the unfl...
As the election nears, Trump has continued to describe his own relationshipwith Putinin favorable terms. Even while portraying the Russian leader as “no angel,” as he did in the North Carolina speech, Trump’s tone tends to be admiring, in line with his depiction of other...
used to tell us “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer” and we should be grateful for what we had, as many others had less. It is also essential to speak out and advocate for a world where it is unacceptable to put material wealth before human life and the life of the plan...
At a moment of great anxiety about the state of modern liberal democracy, AI in China appears to be an incredibly powerful enabler of authoritarian rule. Is the arc of the digital revolution bending toward tyranny, and is there any way to stop it? AFTER THE END of the Cold War, conventio...
This is all of a piece with authoritarian dictatorships across the political spectrum; get ahold of the youth through the education system, mold them into the new man/woman/whatever, encourage them to inform on their families and peers, and reward them with praise, honors, after the example ...
It is to create cringy memes that will be used by its supporters to share among themselves. In that, it has succeeded. The Constitution is not our religious book There are two things you can do with a book. You can either keep it closed or open it and read it. Those who argue tha...
Public institutions, especially the parties, no longer act as a kind of bottleneck and lens through which the cacophonous voices and desires of the demos is filtered of noise and made coherent. The process of representation no longer works like it used to, indeed many have forgotten what ...
is an issue in World Bank tracks, it is, you know, we’ll say, authoritarian governments tracking and, you know, tracing people’s currency flows inside their countries. And when you have immigrants, one of the things that often happens is culturally, they send back to the old country ...