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By Benjamin Katz and Daniel Michaels Lithuanian and Polish investigators probing a diverted Ryanair flight over Belarus havent yet decoded information held in the planes black box amid early... | May 30, 2021

BANGKOK (AP) — The mother of a journalist detained in Myanmar says she and the family...

Ostracism has long been an ancient form of punishment. Stories from the Bible tell of ostracism, which was also used democratically in antiquity by the Greeks.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo (AP) — Nearly every morning, Daniel Lane can be found drinking...

Far, far, far more severe than we ever anticipated. when we wrote the book, we did not imagine that the republican party really the entire republican party would not only tru trumpize but become an anti-democratic political force. and unfortunately, as painful as it is to say is where we are today. >> and yet, they dont see themselves as that. which is -- i mean, it -- there seems to be a kind of cognitive dissidence here. >> in public. i mean, very few authoritarian forces anywhere in the world...

>> democratic tend to survive, a rich democratic history tends to sur survive. thats what social history teaches us. there are no guarantees because the reason they predict what democracies are like is because citizens mobilize, politicians abide by democratic rules and norms so there is nothing automatic about it. we have a kind of self-conception of our society and democracy thats a machine that runs of itself and i think it is not a machine that runs of itself. it requires visual inaction by ...

Democracys never been under threat, in this way. there is a -- and we -- we do not consider ourselves particularly alarmist. and we are now convinced that there is a serious chance that the republican party tries to steal the 2024 election. i think 2020 ended up being a dress rehearsal, in which republicans learned that there are levers that they can pull to throw out ballots of -- of -- of -- in rival strongholds based on false allegations of fraud. or based on technicalities. >> daniel, i spok...

Against the capitol on the day that congress is certifying the results of a free and fair presidential election? >> well, its really, quite striking because it really combines two different things. on the one hand, not accepting the results of elections. which is the core pillar of democracy. and second of all, allowing for violence to take place, political violence, and not unambiguously separating themselves from that. so, you know, in terms of the question of are they really authoritarian eve...

US seeks freedom for 2 American journalists in Myanmar GRANT PECK, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail This photo provided by Bryan Fenster shows his brother Danny Fenster in September of 2019 in Kraków, Poland. Fenster, an American journalist working for a news magazine in Myanmar has been detained by the authorities there. Frontier Myanmar says Danny Fenster, its managing editor, was detained at Yangons airport as he was preparing to board a flight to Malaysia. (Photo courtesy Byron Fenst...