This year was a deeply disappointing one for Africa’s struggling democrats. And there is little reason to expect 2026 to be much better https://t.co/fNZWWwfXPH ...

RT Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇪🇺 EUROPE’S WAR ON X IS A WAR ON DEMOCRACYThe EU claims its €120 million fine levied on X is about “transparency violations.” Don’t be fooled. This isn’t about checkmarks or ads. It’s about crushing political dissent - online, surgically, and with plausible deniability.What’s really happening is simple: Europe’s ruling class is terrified of its own voters. Right-wing parties now lead in France, are rising fast in Germany, and could dominate the next UK election. So Brussels is ...

The inauguration in January 2025 of John Mahama, Ghana’s president, should in theory have been a showcase of democracy’s enduring health in Africa. Yet troubling signs were visible. Read more in The World Ahead https://t.co/Z1V8pa0V76 ...

DAOs are retarded because they misunderstand democracythe point of democracy and boards of directors is not to lead or make decisions, it is to keep the leader accountablethey are a fallback in case of failurebut DAOs make them the norm in case of successretardio ...

Where previous presidents’ policies vowed to make the world safe for democracy, Donald Trump’s version seems more inclined to make it safe for illiberalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Europe https://t.co/Z7O01JMoT2Photo: Daniel Torok/White House/ZUMA Press Wire/eyevine ...

This year was a deeply disappointing one for Africa’s struggling democrats. And there is little reason to expect 2026 to be much better https://t.co/0PKd9HPJV7Illustration: Mel Haasch https://t.co/4s84JYkfWM ...

The transition to democracy in Venezuela “is not hypothetical; it has already begun”, argues the opposition leader and Nobel laureate. “The fear inside the regime is palpable” https://t.co/4FY5h3aM0C ...

The NGO bureaucracy controls Europe, depriving people of democracyNaomi Seibt (@NaomiSeibt):Democracy died with the rise of NGO bureaucracy.Your vote means nothing until the EU falls. ...

In the coming year, South Africa and Zambia will be bright spots for functional democracy. Elsewhere, however, ruling parties will be largely going through the motions https://t.co/2x9NqZixMi ...

Back this morning, the daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado is accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother's behalf at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The Nobel Institute said Machado would not be attending the ceremony, but that she would come to Oslo later. NBC News international correspondent Molly Hunter joins us now with more on this.Hey there, Molly. Let's start with the ceremony itself. Walk us through what's happening and what we've heard so far.>> Yeah, Emily ...