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Economic fallout from the Iran war will have a major impact on African citizens and the prospects for democracy on the continent.

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Europe’s security turn remains strikingly ad hoc, despite its massive increase in defence spending.

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Governments now deploy online platforms to shape public opinion and influence collective cognition. This is acutely apparent between China and Taiwan.

The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

Lessons from other backsliding democracies show that mass mobilization needs to feed into an electoral strategy.

The future looks bleak for independent media worldwide, but there is a robust infrastructure of knowledge, organizations, and people to build upon.

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Defenders of democracy often split over perceptions, methods, urgency levels, and priorities.

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