• Bahrain: Court sentences eight pro-democracy protesters to life in prison [x-post /r/LegalNews] http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/04/bahrain-court-sentences-eight-protesters-to-life-in-prison.php 8 comments 27/4/2014 worldnews
• Exiled Hong Kong pro-democracy activists urge US Congress to speed up 'life boat' status law https://hongkongfp.com/2021/07/23/exiled-hong-kong-pro-democracy-activists-urge-us-congress-to-speed-up-life-boat-status-law/ 4 comments 25/7/2021 politics
• The mass nonviolent uprising reflects the life of our democracy, not its death https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-mass-nonviolent-uprising-reflects-the-life-of-our-democracy-not-its-death/2020/06/03/876d0056-a5cd-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html 14 comments 3/6/2020 politics
• Democracy Is Fighting for Its Life https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/10/democracy-is-fighting-for-its-life/ 26 comments 13/9/2019 politics
• How Neoliberalism Reinvented Democracy: Neoliberalism replaces the citizen with the consumer — pushing people out of political life and into the marketplace. https://jacobinmag.com/2019/04/neoliberalism-democracy-consumer-sovereignty/ 20 comments 7/4/2019 politics
• US: Call for life sentences for journalists raise serious concerns about Turkey's commitment to democracy http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_us-serious-concerns-over-turkeys-commitment-to-democracy_410810.html 367 comments 28/1/2016 worldnews
• Europe is slowly strangling the life out of national democracy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10546394/europe-is-slowly-strangling-the-life-out-of-national-democracy.html 5 comments 2/1/2014 italy
• The true "Arab Spring" will dawn only when democracy takes root in countries that have ousted their dictatorships, and when women in those countries are allowed to take part in civic life. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052970203370604577265840773370720.html?mod=wsj_opinion_leadtop 6 comments 14/3/2012 politics
• Founder of Neoconservatism: If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wbutler/kristol.html 23 comments 15/6/2008 politics
• Comparison of life in USA democracy and life in the USSR communism http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-ussr1.shtml 2 comments 11/3/2008 reddit.com
• Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela, Has Spent His Life Crushing Democracy https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/elliott-abrams-venezuela-coup/ 35 comments 30/1/2019 politics
• "Our democracy would look like a creeping, crypto-oligarchy to the ancient Greeks" New book on the life of Democracy by Paul Cartledge http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/on-the-life-and-deaths-of-democracy#sthash.AbsrQeWM.dpuf 33 comments 26/5/2016 books
• Democracy and the Freedom of Choice | The Partially Examined Life http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2014/11/06/democracy-and-the-freedom-of-choice/ 52 comments 8/11/2014 philosophy
• Corporate power has turned Britain into a corrupt state: Westminster lobbying is the least of it. Revolving-door colonisation of public life is a corrosive threat to democracy http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/04/corporate-britain-corrupt-lobbying-revolving-door 28 comments 7/6/2013 worldnews
• What Conservatives Really Want. The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy. http://www.truth-out.org/what-conservatives-really-want67907 5 comments 20/2/2011 politics
• Letters to the Editor: This July 4, voting rights and American democracy are on life support https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-07-04/july-4-voting-rights-american-democracy 57 comments 4/7/2021 politics
• American "republicans" are enemies of American democracy, and "Republicanism" represents a threat to the American way of life by the very force of its "constituencies", i.e. "people" which are "voters" https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000170-4322-d056-aff3-53f6b6950000 31 comments 14/2/2020 politics
• Democracy fighting for its life, from June 4 in China to July 4 in the U.S.: Tiananmen, Trump's trade war, and the death of American values https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-good-the-bad-the-economy/201906/june-4-and-july-4 5 comments 5/6/2019 politics
• Top Macron Advisor : How can a rich western democracy have growing mass shootings, a 40% obesity rate, collapsing life expectancy and an opium epidemic ? Part of america is suicidal. Suicidal people can be a threat to themselves but also to others http://blogs.lexpress.fr/attali/2018/02/26/why-is-the-american-superpower-suicidal/ 40 comments 20/5/2018 europe
• Philosopher Henry Giroux on the culture of cruelty and Donald Trump: America is “a democracy on life support — it can’t breathe” http://www.salon.com/2017/04/23/philosopher-henry-giroux-on-the-culture-of-cruelty-and-donald-trump-america-is-a-democracy-on-life-support-it-cannot-breathe/#.wp0wo_djtki.reddit 22 comments 23/4/2017 politics
• This thread could use your help: "Nietzsche thinks that systems like democracy and Christianity share common traits ... people constrain themselves from being the best person they can because to do so is 'morally good' and therefore justify living a slavish, reasonably pathetic life." http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/he46p/democracy_is_christianity_made_natural_nietzsche/c1up6ug 4 comments 18/5/2011 philosophy
• Whoa, I missed this one: "On August 3, 2007, Family Security Matters published an opinion piece by Philip Atkinson, which advocated for making George W. Bush president for life, because 'the inadequacy of Democracy, rule by the majority, is undeniable.'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/center_for_security_policy#family_security_matters_and_controversial_writings 3 comments 11/5/2010 politics
• "If you are willing to have the government come into your home and into your personal life without any probable cause or warrant, then you have just given up our democracy" http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/4/125658/9949 15 comments 4/3/2008 politics
• The Big Lie, Media Complicity, and the Science of Propaganda | These successfulness of Republican lies are undermining our democracy and—as it happens—also threaten all life on Earth. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/28/big-lie-media-complicity-and-science-propaganda 23 comments 28/9/2022 politics
• The mental image that most Americans harbor of authoritarianism is cartoonish. Life in authoritarian states is mostly boring and tolerable. You know that you are no longer living in a democracy because the elections in which you are participating can no longer yield political change. https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/9/14207302/authoritarian-states-boring-tolerable-fascism-trump 13 comments 21/2/2020 politics
• Embattled Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday ruled out making any concessions to pro-democracy protesters in the face of escalating violence, which police said was now "life threatening" citing the detonation of a small bomb. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/iduskbn1wu03s 5 comments 15/10/2019 worldnews
• Tunisia's democracy blooms as model for Arab Spring: Smooth elections, a coalition between moderate Islamists and secularists, and an explosion of civic life are propelling Tunisia forward as a model for the Arab Spring. http://www.csmonitor.com/world/europe/2011/1112/tunisia-s-democracy-blooms-as-model-for-arab-spring 44 comments 12/11/2011 worldnews
• Elliott Abrams Isn’t Going to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela - Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela, Has Spent His Life Crushing Democracy https://theintercept.com/2019/01/30/elliott-abrams-venezuela-coup/ 10 comments 1/2/2019 worldnews
• So long, democracy — we hardly knew ye | With voting rights and the For the People Act on life support, America’s ‘grand experiment’ is quickly failing. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/08/opinion/so-long-democracy-we-hardly-knew-ye/ 365 comments 9/6/2021 politics
• Charlie Hebdo Attack Proves Islamist Terrorism is a ‘Matter of Life or Death’ for Western Democracies, French Jewish Leader Declares http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-attack-proves-islamist-terrorism-is-a-matter-of-life-or-death-for-western-democracies-french-jewish-leader-declares/ 8 comments 7/1/2015 worldnews
• Hong Kong citizens step up democracy protests as riot police withdrawn | Roads blocked, banks and schools closed, as thousands join unprecedented demonstrations disrupting daily life http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/hong-kong-citizens-democracy-protests-riot-police-withdrawn 510 comments 29/9/2014 worldnews
• After Years in Solitary, an Austere Life as Uruguay’s President - José Mujica, a former guerrilla who took office in 2010, donates most of his salary, shuns opulence and lives modestly, as he says the leader of a democracy should. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/world/americas/after-years-in-solitary-an-austere-life-as-uruguays-president.html?hp&_r=0 131 comments 5/1/2013 worldnews
• The Party of Lucifer — American democracy in action. Jennifer Taff stood in line outside Milwaukee's Washington High School for two hours after not receiving her absentee ballot: "I have a father dying from lung disease and I have to risk my life and his just to exercise my right to vote." https://www.commondreams.org/further/2020/04/07/party-lucifer 196 comments 8/4/2020 politics
• The United States is facing a collapsing life expectancy and an opium epidemic of an unprecedented scale. Why do so many europeans are not aware of this ? As europeans, if this can happen in a rich major Western democracy, do you think it can happen here ? I would like your opinion https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/us/drug-overdose-deaths-in-the-us.html 18 comments 2/6/2018 europe
• Jacques Attali, Senior Advisor to Emmanuel Macron : How can a rich western democracy have increasingly regular shootings, a 60% obesity rate, an opium epidemic and a collapsing life expectancy? A large part of american society is suicidal. It's a threat to themselves but also to the whole world. http://blogs.lexpress.fr/attali/2018/02/26/why-is-the-american-superpower-suicidal/ 98 comments 19/3/2018 europe
• The rule of law is there to protect everybody from excesses of unchecked power. It’s precisely what separates ''us'' (those who believe in the value of life and fundamental human rights) from ''them'' (murderous hateful souls such as bin Laden). This [is the] true symbol of the power of democracy. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/order-for-execution-was-illegal-20110504-1e8bp.html 21 comments 5/5/2011 worldnews
• "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" — Isaac Asimov http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/84250 410 comments 2/3/2011 reddit.com
• Instead of Bombs and Bribes, Let’s Try Empathy and Trade by Rep. Ron Paul - Without much humility or regard for human life, our foreign policy has been reduced to alternately bribing and bombing other nations, all with the stated goal of "promoting democracy." http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2009/10/05/instead-of-bombs-and-bribes/ 9 comments 6/10/2009 politics
• We can tolerate inequality as long as we meet two conditions. First, a strong, stable foundation for middle-class life with protection from poverty. Second, great fortunes can pile up but must be dispersed. In a democracy, no one should rule by inherited wealth, or it’s no democracy to speak of. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-23/fixing-inequality-can-save-us-from-the-next-crisis.html?wpisrc=nl_wonk 81 comments 24/9/2013 politics
• How Much Is an Iraqi Life Worth? - The U.S. govt had no legitimate authority to sacrifice even one Iraqi life — not one single Iraqi life — for the sake of democracy in Iraq. The U.S. govt’s sacrifice of the Iraqi people at the altar of democracy violates the principles of every major religion... http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-09-07.asp 9 comments 18/9/2010 politics