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American democracy is in crisis. Breyer thinks now’s the time to scold his fellow liberals.

Daily Post Nigeria Published Six years after retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari a Fulani Moslem from Daura, Katsina State, near Niger Republic, took oath of office twice, he has misled the Country into becoming one of the most troubled sovereign entities in the entire World. Aside pushing Nigeria into the inglorious index as the capital of poverty in the World about two years ago, the President has serially failed to adopt proactive and workable strategic defence mechanisms to protect and defend Nigeria and Nigerians from external infiltrators and internal insurgents. Nigeria has also bec...

Biden: High-speed internet is infrastructure 02:22 (CNN)President Joe Biden's prime-time address to Congress this week represents another step in negotiations over his economic plan. But the rhetorical endgame has already come into focus. His appeal vaults past details of the sprawling $4 trillion infrastructure and jobs package to the continued viability of the American system itself. Lately Biden has previewed his Wednesday speech from the well of the House by framing the stakes in simple but soaring terms. "It's a basic question," the new President said last month in rolling out the fir...

“We the people” have gotten a bad reputation in the annals of democratic theory. Thinkers from Alexander Hamilton to Alexis de Tocqueville have identified an excess of democracy as the greatest threat to U.S. democracy. As recently as 2019, the Harvard scholars Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt fretted about “an overreliance on the ‘will of the people’”—a Hamilton phrase—in their bestseller, How Democracies Die. They appealed to U.S. political elites to be the “guardrails of democracy,” warning that only their “norms of toleration and restraint” will ensure that Amer...

Democracy's fate depends on many factors but it most crucially depends on behaviour of political leaders, parties