July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Algeria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Croatia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Iran, Mali, Mongolia, Yemen.
1942 Results
Miami Times Black Wall Street March 11 2025 article
January 2024, Volume 35, Issue 1
Documents on Democracy
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi’s letter from prison; Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko’s final court statement; the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety and ethics; “An Open Letter to the Presidents of Africa” by Congolese hip hop artist Martial Pa’nucci; a letter from Guatemala’s indigenous ancestral and community authorities; a Chinese blogger remembers Peng Lifa.
April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Bangladesh, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, and Thailand.
January 2023, Volume 34, Issue 1
Documents on Democracy
Featuring Canadian deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland’s remarks on defending democracy; a letter by Chinese and Hong Kong socialists on China’s “zero-covid” protests; Shervin Hajipour’s song “Baraye,” the unofficial anthem of the protests in Iran; Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen’s remarks on shoring up democratic resilience in Taiwan and globally; and Gambian human-rights lawyer Fatou Bensouda’s…
April 2013, Volume 24, Issue 2
Review Essay: A Voice from the North Korean Gulag
Evidence of the evil perpetrated in North Korea’s prison camps continues to emerge, as most vividly highlighted by Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West.
October 2005, Volume 16, Issue 4
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mauritius, Poland, and Suriname.
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Indonesia, Kuwait, Malawi, and Venezuela.
April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Chad, Gabon, Gambia, Madagascar, Pakistan, Russia (Chechen Republic), Singapore.
October 2018, Volume 29, Issue 4
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Cambodia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Pakistan, Rwanda, Swaziland, Turkey, and Zimbabwe.
Breaking Out of Xi’s Great Prison
Chinese citizens from Urumqi to Shanghai took to the streets, blank sheets of white paper in hand, to denounce the CCP and call for change. Xi Jinping’s repression and zero-covid lockdowns have united the public in empathy and anger. | Guoguang Wu
October 1996, Volume 7, Issue 4
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Bangladesh, Chad, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Lebanon, Mongolia, Russia, São Tomé & Príncipe, Uganda.
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Argentina, Belarus, Benin, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Peru, Philippines, Zimbabwe.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
How Zelensky Has Changed Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky is far more than a brave wartime leader. He began changing the tenor and direction of Ukrainian politics long before the people made him their president.
July 2024, Volume 35, Issue 3
Democracy After Truth
A review of The Death of Truth, by Steven Brill, and Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality, by Renée DiResta.
October 2008, Volume 19, Issue 4
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Angola, Cambodia, Grenada, Hong Kong, Macedonia, Mongolia, and Zimbabwe.
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Cyprus, Djibouti, Ghana, Kenya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Niger, Senegal, South Korea, Taiwan, Yugoslavia.
April 2018, Volume 29, Issue 2
The Undemocratic Dilemma
The ability of liberal democracies around the world to translate popular views into public policy has been declining. Yet there is no easy way to overcome this trend without weakening the capacity of governments to solve some of the most pressing challenges of the coming decades.
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Economic Reform and Democracy: Crisis and Opportunity in Africa
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Why the French Strike
Why are the French protesting this time? Emmanuel Macron is imposing deeply unpopular reforms, and it’s one of the only ways left to check an arrogant and tone deaf president. | Moshik Temkin