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🌎 A Week Before the Midterms, Three Countries Test Democracy
Lula wins in Brazil, Serbia’s leaderless students defeat a leader close to Putin, and Machado returns to Venezuela.
Yesterday evening, while I was finishing The Planet in Europe, Brazil was still voting. I wrote that I would return to the...
🌎 A European Asks Why Americans Accept $158 Million From One Donor
On September 9, Elon Musk gave $75 million to the main super PAC backing Senate Republicans. The next day, that super PAC sent exactly $75 million to a group called Texas PAC. On September 23, Musk gave $83 million more. The day after, exac...
🌎 Trump, the Midterms, and the History of How Strongmen Lose Power
Yesterday, Americans gathered again under the No Kings banner in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. This time the emphasis moved from mass demonstrations to the practical work of getting people to vote. Neighborhood gatherings, cookouts, vo...
🌎 Trump’s America Runs on Cooperation. Here Is What Withdrawing It Can Do
How Democracies Fight Back, Part 9: From Montgomery’s buses to Norway’s classrooms, the people who stop showing up have beaten strongmen before.
After Friday’s Nobel Prize interruption, we’re back with How Democracies Fight Back, the serie...
🌎 Nobel Peace Prize: The Woman Who Believes the World Needs Rules
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize honors Navi Pillay, whose extraordinary life shows why international justice matters in a world increasingly dominated by power politics.
We are still in the middle of our series How Democracies Fight Back, but t...
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