Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan participated in the “Copenhagen Democracy Summit”. The Prime Minister made a speech and answered several questions at the discussion on “From the frontline: Armenia’s defense of democracy.” In his speech, Nikol Pashinyan noted, “Dear participants of the Copenhagen Democracy Summit,Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my honor and privilege to have this …
Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, historian and author of the forthcoming Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Penguin, 2024) talks about her Atlantic cover story, “Democracy Is Losing the Propaganda War," about the rise of autocracy around the world.
"Chess has never been more popular, but its ugly side has also never been more exposed."
From its effect on polling and political mobilisation to how voters perceive power structures, the changing environment has far-reaching repercussions.
Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here. For four decades, I’ve had a recurring nightmare in […]
Pyotr Tolochko, the pre-eminent historian and archeologist of Kievan Rus, passed away quietly in Kyiv, Ukraine, late last month at the age of 87. Tolochko devoted his entire life to studying the early history of Ukraine, including 30 years as head of the Institute of Archeology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.His hundreds of scholarly articles and more than two dozen monographs led to international acclaim and appointments at several European and international academies, as well as two...
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has left for the Kingdom of Denmark on a working visit. The Prime Minister will participate in the “Copenhagen Democracy Summit” on May 14. Within the framework of the summit, Nikol Pashinyan will take part in the discussion on “From the frontline: Armenia’s defense of democracy.” PM Pashinyan will also meet …
By: Lloyd Brown-John An anti-nuclear test protest demonstration and march from the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge on Nov. 7, 1971, was described in the New York Times as: “Policemen wearing riot helmets and carrying billy clubs stopped 1,500 demonstrators against the United States Amchitka nuclear blast from marching yesterday on to the Ambassador […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) A democracy is a majority-rule Government: It represents (is controlled by) at least 50% of the inhabitants. A dictatorship doesn’t. The smaller a percentage of its residents who control it, the more of a dictatorship it is. A one-person dictatorship is like Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and King Saud’s […]
President Biden doesn’t want to leave the Oval Office in January, but his strategy of branding political opponents as traitors and criminals has failed to elevate his standing in the polls.
Kirk Goldsberry is an acclaimed basketball writer, a sports analytics-professor at the University of Texas, and a former strategic-research executive with the San Antonio Spurs, but first and foremost, he’s a mapmaker—he’s the Magellan of the modern NBA, using charts and infographics to show us the unseen truth of the game hiding right in front of our eyes. He made his name more than a decade ago, during the halcyon days of what came to be known as “NBA Twitter,” by gathering up all the...
Americans are at war but don’t realize it.