Anti-government protesters clash with police in Kiev on Feb. 20, 2014.Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images file If you're on Bluesky and follow me, you've probably seen that I'm writing.
Source: The Economist, Global Democracy Index, 2025 I haven't been doing due diligence in following news in other countries, in large part because developments in the United States exhaust so.
Public Domain I suspect everyone here understands — at least at some level — that we're seeing the apotheosis of a fifty-year movement to legalize and constitutionalize the Nixon administration..
If Only it was this Obvious Tom Pepinski, who wrote a terrific post on the banality of life under soft authoritarian regimes, has a new piece entitled "If American Democracy.
