By Jeet Heer* -The Nation Trump’s two impeachments are just the start of a long struggle to turn the former president into a pariah. The second impeachment of Donald Trump was an improvement, but only a partial and halting one, over the first impeachment.
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures There are huge risks to abandoning the country’s previous political arrangement. For Myanmar, a country where the military brass has called the shots for most of its modern history, the putsch shouldn’t have come as much of a…
By Navi Pillay, Federico Mayor, Bill Richardson, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Asunta Vivó Cavaller (*) The wave of executions in the United States, carried out at the federal level, of thirteen persons in the last six months of the Trump administration, is a tragic record…
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Myanmar’s fragile, flawed democracy has collapsed. In the early hours Monday, the country’s military initiated a coup, arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians, including ministers from her National League for…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Analysis of the election’s results in Portugal According to certain foreign media, the results of the last election spelled the “end of the Portuguese dream”, meaning the fact that until now Portugal had been the only European country without…
By Lloyd Green* – The Guardian As a procedural certification has become a coup attempt, Trump and his allies have done lasting harm Democracy in the US teeters on the edge of a figurative sword. On Wednesday, the US Congress will convene to formally receive the outcome of…
Editorial The US president is seeking to bring down a system that defeated him This week, Donald Trump will undermine democracy in the US by supporting the claim that Democrat Joe Biden did not fairly win last November’s presidential election. A peaceful handover of power in a…
By Quint Forgey* – POLITICO Legal experts and lawmakers have expressed alarm at the president’s conversation with Georgia’s secretary of state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that it was unlikely his office would open an investigation into his weekend…
By Roberto Savio* Let us try to look at the situation from a distance To write about Venezuela has become extremely difficult. The country has become so polarized, that just two narratives are left.
By David Litt* – The Guardian Trump’s attempt to steal an election didn’t come from nowhere – it was rooted in years of Republican contempt for democracy Joe Biden has won so much that he is, apparently, tired of winning. That was the crux of his speech Monday night, after the…
