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Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.
Americans concerned with the strength of their democracy would do well to look at lessons from around the world. One is a warning: It often erodes before it collapses. Another is hopeful: It has the potential for regrowth.
From the impacts of COVID-19 on women to groundbreaking research on cash transfers, gender-based violence and women’s political participation, a Duke Center for International Development (DCID) webinar held on Thursday, March 3, 2022, brought to light critical issues in women’s rights and international development.
Ensuring the Survival of Our Democracy “Mr. Trump may have weakened our democracy, but whether that weakening is fatal is up to us,” a reader writes. Jan. 2, 2021 To the Editor: Yes, President Trump tried to break our democracy and turn the United States into an authoritarian state controlled by him. He failed — because of the safeguards the founding fathers built into the Constitution. The framers were fearful of a rogue tyrant abusing the power of the presidency, as Mr. Trump did over and over during his four years. We can be grateful that Mr. Trump failed and will be gone in a few we...
And so with the 'handshake government' seemingly less transformational and its legacy not assured, the question top on the mind of many is whether in the end it will be worth all the risk and trouble. First, the country remains deeply divided, angrier and perhaps poorer. With the BBI referendum — whatever the outcome — described by its proponents as the last lap of the handshake, the dubious distinction of our politics being a race to the bottom is being reinforced. The question is how do you build back from the bottom? How do you get away from the toxic politics, a bad economy weighed ...