List of Democracy articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Brazil’s Left Destroyed Itself
Once upon a time, the Workers’ Party promised clean government. Now it’s squarely at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in the country’s history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 TTIP Must Die So the West Can Live
Free-market evangelists say the U.S.-EU trade deal is essential to the future of transatlantic diplomacy. But dangerous economics could unravel centuries of partnership.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Fight Over Words Strains Burgeoning U.S.-Myanmar Ties
Myanmar's new leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, wants U.S. diplomats to sweep the country's persecution of Rohingya Muslims under the rug.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How East Timor’s Democracy Is Making it an Outcast
In Southeast Asia, being democratic can lose you friends.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Facing Headwinds, Referendum to Recall Venezuela’s President Moves Forward
Most Venezuelans want him gone. But Nicolás Maduro still has a few tricks up his sleeve.
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UPA The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Election Monitors Are Failing
Uganda’s recent election showed, once again, that international election observers aren't calling it like they see it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump Defeats Straw Man
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump outlined his “American First” foreign policy vision in a major speech yesterday, offering a stinging rebuke — possibly the definitive refutation — of a position no one holds.
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US and Afghan soldiers listen to a mission briefing before a combined patrol southwards towards the village of Kandagal in the Pech valley, 16th June 2012 Why Is America So Bad at Promoting Democracy in Other Countries?
There’s no quick, cheap, or military-based way to bring peace to places like Afghanistan, Yemen, and Iraq. It’s time we changed our approach, and we can start at home.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Worst Dictatorship You’ve Never Heard Of
Gambia is facing its biggest protest movement in years. It will either be a breakthrough or a bloodbath.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Un-Freedom Agenda
The rise of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram has turned Niger from a backwater into a key U.S. counterterrorism partner. So why is it becoming more authoritarian?