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Is Democracy Dying?
There is a widespread feeling that democratic norms are slowly being eroded by autocratic tendencies. In China, Turkey, Russia, Syria,...
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Vote 16
The House of Representatives unanimously approved the lowering of the voting age from 18 to 16. In my blog (in Maltese) for...
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'Democracy dies in darkness'
"Democracy dies in darkness." A year ago, The Washington Post adopted this as the motto of its newspaper. In my first blog for...