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Democracy, the sacred right of every person to make their voice heard through free, fair, and secure elections. we should be making it easy for people to vote, not harder. that's going to remain a priority for my administration until we get it done. inaction is not an option. >> but the uncomfortable reality facing the president is that there's one party that seems willing to pull out all the stops when it comes to the issue of the u.s. democracy, and it isn't his. as mark gelman put it in the tlig -- our two-party system has only one party left willing to lose an election. the other is willin...

Nazlan Ertan NEW DELHI, India, Feb 8 2021 (IPS) - Over the years, Turkey has survived three Coup d’état in which its military forces took power, in 1960, 1971 and 1980. The coup in 1997, was carried out in a “post-modern way”, where generals sat down with the then prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan and forced him to resign. However the turning point in Turkey has been the failed coup attempt in July 2016, which has till date been one of the bloodiest coup attempts in its political history, leaving 241 people killed, and 2,194 others injured. Soldiers and tanks took to the streets, expl...

From berlin, amy kellogg is there. i can't believe it's been 30 years, i guess i'm revealing my age. man, oh, man, it seems like yesterday. >> i know, neil and actually the berlin wall has now been down longer than it was ever up. if you can believe that. the 30 years is a special anniversary. and chancellor angela merkel and president bush pointed out that democracy cannot sit on their laurels. there's plenty of dictatorships and repression around the world that need to be stood up to. the fall of the berlin wall was a joyous occasion. it was spontaneous by an east german official on a new tr...

Division and governing takes unity. and we're not going the governing party. we're doing election, election, election, divide, divide, divide. democracy cannot work like that. >> i know that you're reluctant to criticize the current president, but a lot of people point out that his campaigns seems like in a lot of ways of dividing the country, especially on issues related to race? >> the problems of division in this country go back decades right now. clearly, they go back -- they didn't start with one party or one person. and if we're going to correct this problem, which is what we should be f...

Missi missing? a more moderate voice? >> i think we have tremendous candidates out there. we have to focus as a laser beam an our lack of economic mobility. we accepted the idea that we with live with income and equality. everybody in america with rise. the last 50 years, americans have not gotten a benefit of economic growth. that's a challenge that we have to look at. democracy cannot survive without broad-based economic growth. >> dana: would you agree -- the president is overseeing an economy that is giving movement to that. the wages are going up, unemployment is down. denver is thriving....