- Does the United States of America have Democracy? http://www.pacious.com/politics/2016/6/28/do-we-have-democracy 9 comments politics
- The United States is not a democracy. http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2014-06-13/letters-at-3am-snyder-r-us/ 170 comments politics
- Reddit, do you concider the United States to be a democracy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index_(The_Economist) 17 comments politics
- Opinion | Brazil just showed the United States how to do democracy https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/brazilian-president-jair-bolsonaro-ends-his-donald-trump-act-n1300536 12 comments politics
- Five Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters seek asylum in United States https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/17/five-hong-kong-pro-democracy-protesters-seek-asylum-united-states/ 4 comments worldnews
- Alexander Vindman: The United States Must Marshal the “Free World”. Together, Democracies Can Counter the Authoritarian Threat https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/mqmf33n-2_m 70 comments geopolitics
- Why the Right Keeps Saying That the United States Isn’t a Democracy https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-republicans-keep-saying-that-the-united-states-isnt-a-democracy?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=tny_daily_101520&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea03292ddf9c72dc89f9eb&cndid=54983584&hasha=fe5d662adf685ae9dedd7464c832fcdf&hashb=325160894b3da8aacbe57c562af617a415a8ebab&hashc=9c8dbee9bae80a6f003d48aa263a844e4405db0d78e95f698d107181f13667ba&esrc=bouncex&mbid=mbid%3Dcrmnyr012019&utm_term=tny_daily 21 comments politics
- Why the Right Keeps Saying That the United States Isn’t a Democracy https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-republicans-keep-saying-that-the-united-states-isnt-a-democracy 79 comments politics
- Democracy Is Good for Your Health—And Vice Versa: There’s No Quick Fix for What Ails the United States https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-01-30/democracy-good-your-health-and-vice-versa 22 comments politics
- America the Unexceptional: Long a promoter of rights and democracy abroad, the United States would be wise to look within. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/10/american-exceptionalism-human-rights-democracy-unexceptional/ 6 comments politics
- From NYT: "Israel is a democracy with the same values as the United States" Do we really have the same values? If you agree, please elaborate. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/weekinreview/06cooper.html?hpw 23 comments politics
- H.CON.RES.443 Expressing the sense of the Congress in reaffirming the United States of America as a republic and NOT a democracy http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/d?d106:2:./temp/~bdtmdy:@@@l&summ2=m&%7C/bss/d106query.html%7C#summary 17 comments politics
- United States Doesn't Even Make Top 20 on Global Democracy Index https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/11/united-states-doesnt-even-make-top-20-global-democracy-index 19 comments worldnews
- United States Doesn't Even Make Top 20 on Global Democracy Index https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/11/united-states-doesnt-even-make-top-20-global-democracy-index 205 comments politics
- One-third of the world’s population lives in a declining democracy. That includes the United States. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/07/03/one-third-of-the-worlds-population-lives-in-a-declining-democracy-that-includes-americans/ 1066 comments politics
- United States Democracy And Foreign Policy Deteriorating According To Political Experts: "Now it’s just an oligarchy" http://www.inquisitr.com/2946192/united-states-democracy-and-foreign-policy-deteriorating-according-to-political-experts/ 13 comments politics
- Current Revolts in Democracies, and Why The United States Should Closely Follow and Learn From Them, written by Former CIA Analyst Paul Pillar http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/revolts-democracies-8633 10 comments politics
- "I find it amazing that the whole world watched Egypt do this and now we’re seeing examples in Wisconsin. I find it amazing Egypt was exporting democracy to the United States." http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/23/people_have_finally_found_their_voice 14 comments worldnews
- Democracy Is Not Exclusive The For the People Act works to fulfill the democratic promise of the United States. Those who seek to thwart it do not actually want a democracy. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/ben-jealous-democracy-hr1/ 12 comments politics
- This Election, Democracy Won - In a year where little has gone right, the United States held a free, fair, and secure election during the darkest of times https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/election-democracy-won 15 comments politics
- Why the Right Hates Voting Rights: Conservatives in the United States know they can’t win on a level playing field — so they've started rigging the electoral rules in their favor, democracy be damned. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/why-the-right-hates-voting-rights 310 comments politics
- Pence pledges support to Venezuelans until democracy returns | Pence announced that the United States would give nearly $10 million more to support Venezuelan migrants https://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/us-vp-pence-visit-venezuelans-brazil-fled-turmoil-56203541 2 comments worldnews
- The United States is not a democracy. Please, stop calling it that. We are a Constitutional Republic. Democracy is not the value we must fight for. Instead, we must fight for representation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic 22 comments politics
- We have 5% of the world's population; we have 25% of the world's known prison population. We have an incarceration rate in the United States, the world's greatest democracy, that is five times as high as the average incarceration rate of the rest of the world. http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/28/webb/index.html 77 comments reddit.com
- Pelosi hits back: "The president is not king, the president is the president of the United States. America is a democracy. We have to make decisions based on our judgment. Thus far, the president's judgment hasn't been good." http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/13/pelosi-the-president-is-not-king 57 comments reddit.com
- United Nations Official Says State Repression of Environmental Defenders Threatens Democracy and Human Rights | Citing rising criminalization of environmental activism in Europe, a new paper calls on states to reinstate protections for protest enshrined in binding international law. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03032024/un-official-state-repression-of-environmental-defenders-threatens-democracy/ 20 comments worldnews
- WikiLeak' Gift to American Democracy so far, the hacks have only proved that the United States system knows how to process reality and can handle the truth, which should encourage our leaders to offer more of it. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/business/media/rutenberg-wikileaks-american-democracy.html?mabreward=ctm&action=click&pgtype=homepage&region=ccolumn&module=recommendation&src=rechp&wt.nav=recengine 199 comments politics
- A series of elections in India last week has exposed a major diplomatic problem for the U.S. State Department: The man expected to lead the world's largest democracy in 2014 is not legally allowed to enter the United States. http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/10/will_india_s_next_leader_be_banned_in_america#sthash.xtqdqz3h.dpbs 9 comments worldnews
- An Empirical Analysis of Chinese versus US Arms Transfers to Autocrats and Violators of Human Rights, 1989-2006: "China relative to the United States transfers greater amounts of arms to democracies rather than autocracies, whereas the United States seems to prefer more autocratic regimes" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isqu.12028/abstract 4 comments politics
- An Empirical Analysis of Chinese versus US Arms Transfers to Autocrats and Violators of Human Rights, 1989-2006: "China relative to the United States transfers greater amounts of arms to democracies rather than autocracies, whereas the United States seems to prefer more autocratic regimes" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isqu.12028/abstract 3 comments science
- The Paradox Of The New Elite: "[I]n economic terms, the United States has gone from being a comparatively egalitarian society to one of the most unequal democracies in the world." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/opinion/sunday/social-inequality-and-the-new-elite.html?pagewanted=all 80 comments politics
- Turkey is drifting into the Iran-Syria camp. The government is clamping down on democracy at home. There is question raised by those desperate advocates of democracy: Can they depend on the United States to help? http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/10/turkeys-islamist-regime-who-will-stop.html 8 comments worldnews
- ...the United States today is the only advanced democracy where public figures glorify and exalt the military, a sentiment familiar in Europe before 1945 but quite unknown today. http://forumhpi.blogspot.com/2008/04/shadow-of-twentieth-century.html 35 comments reddit.com
- Roger Waters: “The U.N. needs to embrace a new democracy. The veto must be rethought, or the U.N. will die. The system is too open to abuses. The blanket protection afforded to Israel by the United States’ use of the veto is but one example of such abuse.” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/29/where-ban-ki-moon-meets-pink-floyd.html 1439 comments worldnews
- GOP voices it's fear of the democracy of the United States of America and leans on it's planted Supreme Court Justices to uphold the law that the people have made clear they do not want. The GOP are traitors. When will the military step in? Before the people do? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015245878_apuswisconsinbudgetunions.html 2 comments politics
- Martin Wolf, Professor at Oxford University and Economic Editor of The Financial Times on the United States : "How does a political party dedicated to the material interests of the top 0.1 per cent of the income distribution win and hold power in a universal suffrage democracy?" https://www.ft.com/content/e494f47e-ce1a-11e7-9dbb-291a884dd8c6 4 comments europe
- TIL India is ranked 35th out of 167 countries on the Democratic Index - an index compiled by the UK based Economist Intelligence Unit, that measures the state of democracy as Full democracies/Flawed democracies/Hybrid regimes/Authoritarian regimes. Norway tops the list while North Korea is last. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/democracy_index#democracy_index_by_country_.282015.29 5 comments india
- 'American Secret Police'? Trump Deployment of Unidentified Law Enforcement Officials Across DC Sparks Alarm. "The United States would normally condemn this tactic if used by dictators of other countries, and its use here directly threatens our democracy." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/06/american-secret-police-trump-deployment-unidentified-law-enforcement-officials 2066 comments politics
- Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in the United States on Thursday on a trip that has angered Beijing, warning that democracy must be defended and that the island faced threats from “overseas forces,” in a veiled reference to China. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-china/taiwan-president-in-u-s-after-warning-of-threat-from-overseas-forces-iduskcn1u60j2?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 282 comments worldnews
- "One of the reasons I am running for president of the United States is to try to revitalize American Democracy. It is not a secret that we have one of the lowest voting turnout rates of any major country on Earth," Sanders told Tapper on "State of the Union" http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/24/politics/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-poor-voters/index.html?eref=rss_politics 4 comments politics