- Yes, democracy is in trouble — but "age caps" aren't the solution https://www.salon.com/2022/10/09/yes-democracy-is-in-trouble--but-age-caps-arent-the-solution/ 87 comments politics
- Trump Is Gone, but Democracy Is in Trouble https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/freedom-houses-report-shows-democracy-in-trouble/618173/ 34 comments politics
- Is American Democracy Really in Trouble? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-08/can-trump-s-impeachment-fix-american-democracy 34 comments politics
- The Decline of Democracy in Hungary Is a Troubling Vision of the Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/viktor-orban-hungary-democracy-covid-19 3 comments worldnews
- The Decline of Democracy in Hungary Is a Troubling Vision of the Future https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/06/viktor-orban-hungary-democracy-covid-19 15 comments europe
- White House Troubled By Democracy in U.S. - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060406/cm_thenation/1574935 2 comments reddit.com
- ‘This Is Not Democracy’: Myanmar Prepares for a Troubled Election https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/world/asia/myanmar-election.html 37 comments worldnews
- When Americans have more faith in the military than the political class, democracy is in trouble. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/25/glenn-reynolds-polling-confidence-government-obama-elections-column/79264470/ 5 comments politics
- Poll Finds Most Young Americans Say US Democracy Is “In Trouble” or “Failed” https://truthout.org/articles/poll-finds-most-young-americans-say-us-democracy-is-in-trouble-or-failed/ 479 comments politics
- Montenegro was a success story in troubled Balkan region – now its democracy is in danger https://theconversation.com/montenegro-was-a-success-story-in-troubled-balkan-region-now-its-democracy-is-in-danger-157288 12 comments europe
- Several police officers were beaten bloody by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong Sunday as violence erupted at a rally calling for greater democratic freedoms in the heart of the city. Trouble flared when police ordered the gathering to disperse from the city's commercial district https://www.france24.com/en/20200119-officers-beaten-after-police-disband-hong-kong-democracy-rally 6 comments worldnews
- Our Democratic Friends Seem to Be Having a Bit of Trouble with This ‘Democracy’ Thing http://www.nationalreview.com/article/431194/hillary-clinton-super-delegates-not-democratic-ticket 7 comments politics
- When Military Command is the Voice of Reason in a Debate About A New War, You Know Our Democracy is in Trouble. http://www.alternet.org/audits/67654/?page=entire 20 comments politics
- Letter from Kuwaiti explaining that she is having trouble being a champion of democracy because of recent US actions http://www.kuwaittimes.net/localnews.asp?dismode=article&artid=1269219537 5 comments reddit.com
- "A troubling trend": Experts say Republicans are continuing to undermine democracy in North Carolina https://www.salon.com/2025/01/18/a-troubling-trend-experts-say-are-continuing-to-undermine-democracy-in-north-carolina/ 18 comments politics
- Judge Rips Trump In Jan. 6 Trial: ‘Democracy Is In Trouble’ Because Of ‘Charlatans’ Like Trump https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-walton-january-6-trial-thompson-trump 363 comments politics
- ‘Democracy Is In Trouble,’ Judge Says During First Felony Sentencing For Capitol Attack https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/democracy-is-in-trouble-judge-says-during-first-felony-sentencing-for-capitol-attack 397 comments politics
- Missing Saudi Writer Had Big Plans To Promote Democracy In Troubled Region https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jamal-khashoggi-missing-saudi-writer-big-plans-arab-region 7 comments politics
- Why the Justice Department’s demand that Time Warner sell CNN is a troubling subversion of democracy. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_good_fight/2017/11/the_justice_department_s_demand_that_time_warner_sell_cnn_is_a_troubling.html 11 comments politics
- Rigged Democracy: Troubling Number of Hillary's Superdelegates are Actual Lobbyists http://theantimedia.org/troubling-number-of-hillarys-superdelegates-are-actual-lobbyists/ 64 comments politics
- Poll: Majority of Young Americans Say US Democracy 'in Trouble' or Already 'Failed' - "After turning out in record numbers in 2020, young Americans are sounding the alarm." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/01/poll-majority-young-americans-say-us-democracy-trouble-or-already-failed 14 comments politics
- One half of young Americans in new poll say democracy in US is 'in trouble' or has 'failed' https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/583736-one-half-of-young-americans-in-new-poll-say-democracy-in-us-is-either 3427 comments politics
- Barack Obama "troubled" by new state election laws, calls them a "threat to democracy" https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-troubled-new-state-election-laws-calls-them-threat-democracy-1601932 157 comments politics
- An American high school student says "Democracy is for cool kids" — and got in trouble http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-06-06/american-high-school-student-says-democracy-cool-kids-and-got-trouble 4 comments nottheonion
- What’s gone wrong with democracy -- Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. Why has it run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it? http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21596796-democracy-was-most-successful-political-idea-20th-century-why-has-it-run-trouble-and-what-can-be-do 5 comments worldevents
- What’s gone wrong with democracy? Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. Why has it run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it? http://www.economist.com/node/21596796 379 comments philosophy
- American democracy is in trouble — even if Harris wins | Five scenarios for the 2024 election and its aftermath, ranked from most democratic to least. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/23/harris-trump-election-scenarios-undemocratic/ 14 comments politics
- Democrats Will Have to Do More to Save Democracy From Trump | The Biden administration’s troubles may pave the road for the former president to return in 2024 with a legitimate electoral win. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/biden-must-prove-trumpism-fails-democracy/621173/ 54 comments politics
- Obama says all Americans ‘should be troubled’ by Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy. ‘I’m less surprised by Donald Trump doing this, he has shown, you know, only a flimsy relationship with the truth,' says Obama https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/obama-trump-us-election-biden-b1759013.html 148 comments politics
- How “Democracy” works: Are you in trouble? Quickly give more money to politicians! Boeing spends $750K on lobbying in one month after the 737 Max crash. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/20/737-max-manufacturer-boeing-spent-heavily-candidates-february/3222384002/ 9 comments worldnews
- Turkey must release journalists charged with 'terror propaganda,' says RSF: Washington warned of a 'troubling trend' in the Anatolian country, saying democracy is being undermined. http://www.dw.com/en/turkey-must-release-journalists-charged-with-terror-propaganda-says-rsf/a-19353259 4 comments worldnews
- 'Poland and Hungary [...] have now decided this democracy is too much trouble' and 'they want Putin-like leadership' says Bill Clinton at rally. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-17/bill-clinton-scolds-poland-hungary-for-putin-like-leanings 109 comments europe
- What’s gone wrong with democracy | Democracy was the most successful political idea of the 20th century. Why has it run into trouble, and what can be done to revive it? http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21596796-democracy-was-most-successful-political-idea-20th-century-why-has-it-run-trouble-and-what-can-be-do 12 comments politics
- Is Democracy In Trouble?: We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation’s capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about http://www.nationalmemo.com/is-democracy-in-trouble/ 155 comments politics
- GOP Activists Behind Three Troubling Supreme Court Cases Aimed at Dismantling Our Democracy: The 2013 Supreme Court term could roll back decades of progressive law http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/gop-activists-behind-three-troubling-supreme-court-cases-aimed-dismantling-our 18 comments politics
- The Next Panic -- "The euro zone is well down the path to severe crisis, but other industrialized democracies are hot on its heels. Do not let the euro zone’s troubles distract you from the bigger picture: We are all in a mess." Japan more than most http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/10/the-next-panic/309081/?single_page=true 3 comments worldnews
- An Alarm About Our Crippled Democracy, "In any democracy, or any government, rules get bent. But when that is taken for granted, when it’s accepted that rules are there to be twisted by factions, a democracy is in serious trouble." http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/an-alarm-about-our-crippled-democracy 4 comments politics
- Democracy here is dying not with a single giant blow but with many small cuts through the legal processes of Parliament that add up to a slow-motion coup. In its drift toward authoritarian government, Hungary stands as a potentially troubling bellwether for other Eastern European countries. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/world/europe/foes-of-hungarys-government-fear-demolition-of-democracy.html?ref=world 13 comments worldevents
- In this extended interview, former vice president and Current TV chairman Al Gore tells Keith Olbermann why our democracy is in real trouble from the bad decisions being made. http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/al-gore-on-why-washington-is-broken 3 comments politics
- Throughout its history, the myth of manifest destiny has pushed the US to remake the world in its own image. Bush's troubled effort to bring democracy to Iraq is but the latest example. It's time for a new national mythology. http://www.theseminal.com/2009/02/27/lets-crowdsource-a-new-american-myth/ 9 comments politics