- Bail Funds Are Essential to Democracy. A Georgia Bill Threatens to Stifle Them https://time.com/collection/time100-voices/6835328/bail-funds-georgia-john-legend-essay/ 3 comments law
- Vice President Kamala Harris to Educators: ‘You Are Essential to Our Democracy’ https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/conferences-events/annual-meeting-and-representative-assembly/about-ra/ra-news/vice-president-kamala-harris-educators-you-are-essential-our-democracy 67 comments upliftingnews
- Three essential initiatives to defend democracy against corruption https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3562311-three-essential-initiatives-to-defend-democracy-against-corruption/ 2 comments politics
- This Court Has Abandoned the Most Essential Element in American Democracy: Voters https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/supreme-court-bonta-brnovich/619550/ 29 comments politics
- Biden’s Executive Orders Are Essential To Restoring Democracy https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-executive-order-times/ 19 comments politics
- Trump, his campaign, and Republicans know that “their last hope is to essentially subvert democracy itself... https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-election-is-battle-of-pro-democracy-majority-and-anti-democracy-minority-94971973509 3 comments politics
- [Stein] The NBA season essentially began in October 2019 with the Lakers and Nets in a hotel in Shanghai, unsure if their two exhibition games in China would go ahead after a tweet by Rockets GM Daryl Morey in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong ... https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1298990787472982016?s=19 17 comments nba
- We are Republicans and Democrats. Vote by mail is essential to protect voters - and democracy itself. https://www.newsweek.com/vote-mail-essential-voters-health-democracy-1502106 20 comments politics
- Times Of Crisis Reveal Which Political Rules Are Essential To Our Democracy https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/times-of-crisis-reveal-which-political-rules-are-essential-to-our-democracy/ 17 comments politics
- What’s an Essential Service in a Pandemic? The Post Office: From the census to the November election, the Postal Service is critical to American democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/trump-wisconsin-2020-election.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_200415&instance_id=17595&nl=todaysheadlines&regi_id=68337520&segment_id=25198&user_id=b6e55f6f6979146395b2946f4fb0e01e 12 comments politics
- A full, fair, open impeachment trial is essential for our democracy | Editorial https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/01/20/a-full-fair-open-impeachment-trial-is-essential-for-our-democracy-editorial/ 13 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders: This ruling threatens to give more power to unaccountable companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon over what we see and do on the internet. We must fight to keep the internet free and open—not dominated by corporations. This struggle is essential to free speech and democracy. https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1179060328191217667 8 comments privacy
- Paper ballots are essential to securing our elections and our democracy https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/459744-paper-ballots-are-essential-to-securing-our-elections-and-our-democracy 55 comments politics
- Is democracy essential? Millennials increasingly aren't sure — and that should concern us all. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/democracy-essential-millennials-increasingly-aren-t-sure-should-concern-us-ncna847476 95 comments politics
- Large Majorities See Checks and Balances, Right to Protest as Essential for Democracy http://www.people-press.org/2017/03/02/large-majorities-see-checks-and-balances-right-to-protest-as-essential-for-democracy/ 4 comments politics
- George W. Bush: Media essential to democracy http://thehill.com/homenews/321295-former-president-george-w-bush-media-essential-to-democracy 1975 comments politics
- McCain says a free press is essential to a healthy democracy http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/89ae8247abe8493fae24405546e9a1aa/article_2017-02-18-us--trump-mccain-press/id-7614dac90c994e8e9bb208f6b98166b5 61 comments politics
- Percentage of people who say it is essential to live in a democracy in Sweden, The Netherlands and Britain https://i.redd.it/njv7wpy7zt0y.png 444 comments europe
- Jill Stein: Romney, Obama, DNC and RNC are fighting against Greens and Libertarians' lawsuit to open up the presidential debates - "We believe that debates are for the people, not the parties, and that open debates are essential if we are ever to have real democracy in our country." http://www.jill2016.com/romney_obama_vs_open_debates 92 comments politics
- "Trump is performing an essential service – vital for the health of our democracy – in using his perch as Republican front-runner to point out the obvious: that George W. Bush was president on September 11, 2001, and that this means the attacks of that day are part of his record." http://www.theamericanconservative.com/millman/donald-trump-necessary-truth-teller/ 47 comments politics
- “Lobbying is an essential part of democracy,” The Beerstore, How a foreign company gets a monopoly in ontario http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/12/26/how_the_beer_store_lobby_wins_friends_and_influences_politicians_cohn.html 21 comments worldnews
- Net neutrality essential to our democracy "Standing in opposition to net neutrality is tantamount to standing against innovation, against small business, against private-sector job creation and against competition — all of the things that the Republican Party claims to stand for." http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-net-neutrality-essential-to-our-democracy/2014/12/02/ab85a54e-799e-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html?tid=rssfeed 1023 comments politics
- Is Privacy Essential for Democracy? http://watchingthewatchers.org/news/2771/privacy-essential-democracy 4 comments privacy
- Bruce Schneier: "Democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function properly, and transparency and accountability are essential parts of that. That means knowing what our government is doing to us, in our name...Otherwise, we're living in a police state. We need whistle-blowers." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/government_secr.html 891 comments politics
- The U.S. Postal Service is essential to our democracy - Bob Simpson - Open Salon http://open.salon.com/blog/bobbosphere/2012/08/13/the_us_postal_service_is_essential_to_our_democracy 4 comments politics
- China "has proven to the professional investor class in America that democracy and freedom aren't essential to thriving capitalism" http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2010/09/it-lot-easier-for-rich-to-get-richer.html 3 comments politics
- Fox University: Thomas Jefferson stated an essential truth of democracy when he said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be," and the recent Harris Poll proves him right. http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/27/fox_university/ 8 comments politics
- It's time to kill the idea that newspapers are essential for democracy. - Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/id/2214724/?from=rss 3 comments reddit.com
- Putney's Law: If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away the freedoms which are essential to that democracy. http://roso.epfl.ch/dm/murphy.html#p 2 comments reddit.com
- Good faith disagreements and healthy conflict management are essential to deliberative democracy and building strong relationships, but the design of social media makes that hard to achieve. A mixed methods study with 257 participants maps out approaches to making that possible. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3449230 13 comments science
- Mayawati: Keeping democracy's larger interest in view,essential to look into EVM matter so that it gets resolved soon. It's possible to validate ballot paper but it's not the case with EVM. We demand EC to hold 2019 general election using ballot paper,taking this into cognizance. https://twitter.com/aninewsup/status/1087623820939276289 5 comments india
- So much of American “democracy” and so many of the funds that we pony up to govern ourselves now go into strengthening the power of essentially anti-democratic structures: a military with a budget larger than that of the next seven or eight countries combined http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176173/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_the_election_from_hell/ 30 comments politics
- Why Wikileaks is Good for Democracy - Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Information about government contributes to a healthy democracy. Transparency and accountability are essential elements of good government. http://www.counterpunch.org/quigley11302010.html 3 comments politics
- The Best Way To Save The Constitution From Donald Trump Is To Rewrite It — Deference to our founding document is essential to democracy. But mystical devotion is not. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/22/donald-trump-constitution-jan-6-00058208 89 comments politics
- President of India "While 3 Ds are essential in a democracy i.e. Debate, Dissension & Decision 4th D i.e. Disruption is totally unacceptable #PresidentMukherjee" https://twitter.com/rashtrapatibhvn/status/806838283254657025 48 comments india
- If a well informed and educated citizenry is so essential to democracy and for staying competitive, why didn't Democrats increase funding for CPB when they were in control of the house? Why is the agenda always being set by the Right? http://fundingthenews.usc.edu/related_research/3_Carnegie_PublicServiceBroadcasting.pdf 9 comments politics
- Political left is more trusting of climate scientists than right. This divide is worse in wealthier democracies and English-speaking nations. Researchers call this the “post-industrial paradox” - as nations develop, some see science as less essential to progress, making them more skeptical. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083062 150 comments science
- EKREM IMAMOGLU ( the mayor of Istanbul) documentary. For everyone who wants to know some details about Imamoglu's arrest in Turkey, his team made an official documentary with English subtitles. Democracy is essential for us. We don't give up our dreams. We stand for this common goal of humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rg_BDzzHbc 0 comments europe
