By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post There are few more curious political stories in 2020 than the enduring popularity of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The far-right leader was an early skeptic of the threat of the pandemic.
Lloyd Green* – The Guardian In addition to Trump mulling a self-pardon, he’s also considering family members and Rudy Giuliani – but Barr’s words may come back to haunt him On Monday, Donald Trump announced the exit of William Barr from the justice department. Finally, the…
By George Soros* – Project Syndicate German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been laboring under enormous pressure to prevent a veto of the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and COVID-19 recovery fund. But the compromise she reached with Hungary and Poland is the worst of all possible…
By Mate Varga* – The Guardian Democracy is seriously under threat in our countries. The EU must stand up to the bullying tactics of Orbán and Morawiecki As European leaders gather in Brussels this week municipal buildings and monuments in Warsaw and Budapest have been lit up in…
By Bill Powell – Newsweek Grievance politics comes naturally to Donald Trump. Four years ago he rode populist resentment about illegal immigration, foreign trade, and culture-war issues like same-sex marriage and the “war on Christmas” all the way to the White…
Glickman* – Boston Review If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said? For many conservative pundits, the election of Donald Trump marked the moment…
Opinion, by George Danby – Bangor Daily News (*) The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. “There is nothing wrong to participate in a sex…
By David Walsh – Euronews The resignation of a scandal-embroiled politician is always going to make political waves and headline news. But what sets the case of Hungarian MEP József Szájer apart is not just the nature of the scandal he finds himself at the centre of…
By Deutsche Welle (DW) The nationalist governments of Hungary, Poland and other EU members have lost a kindred spirit with Donald Trump’s defeat. Will they have to rethink their strategy?
By Diego Lopes da Silva* STOCKHOLM, Nov 27 2020 (IPS) – Autocracies are once again the global majority. The 2020 Democracy Report of the Varieties of Democracy Institute (V-DEM), ‘Autocratization surges, resistance grows’, raises the alarm that while the world in 2019 was…
