Hong Kong’s Chinese masters have shorn the city of its democracy. Leung Kwok-hung and his supporters offer at least a chance of regrowth https://t.co/d14gOc4Wwd ...

For many of you, this year's Independence Day might have felt a little different, a bit out of sorts, almost like peering through the proverbial looking glass, as if we're honoring something that once was. And in a way, we are. This year, the holiday arrived at at a precarious moment for our democracy. As Donald Trump continues to take a wrecking ball to the very institutions built to protect our democracy. Commenting on this state of affairs, a friend of the show, Dean Oadala, shared this observation yeste ...

His mission has been to fight the Chinese authorities’ assaults on Hong Kong’s autonomy and democracy since Britain handed over the territory. But the origins of his politics are in the colonial Hong Kong in which he grew up https://t.co/4EdQLyilRU ...

It has been a divisive, chaotic week in Trump's America with the opening of his cruel migr migrant detention center the administration has dubbed alligator Alcatraz. You see that sign there and the passage of the massively unpopular so-called big beautiful bill as well as his growing list of political targets he's threatening. People who were once buddies or members of Congress who dared to defy him, news organizations.It's no wonder that most Americans and more than half of Republicans even say democracy i ...

Creeping autocracy doesn't just roll onto Main Street with tanks. Though under President Donald Trump, one might argue we're closer to that sort of thing than we'd like to admit. More often, autocracy starts with a list, a government list, then more lists, then bigger lists, and the names on those lists begin to face the full force of the state with blatant disregard for the rule of law and for basic constitutional rights.If you followed our coverage, you know the warning. Autocrats don't go after the avera ...

The only way to save America is a new party https://t.co/fZiCqmKXPnElon Musk (@elonmusk):By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy.Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom. ...

Almost all prominent pro-democracy activists are now either behind bars or in exile. Fears are growing about who is next in the line of fire https://t.co/0IrnIi27u8 ...

Under the national-security law the authorities have dismantled Hong Kong’s democracy movement. But Leung Kwok-hung remains a totem for Hong Kongers who continue to work for democratic change https://t.co/fqybpsPZC0 ...

Hong Kong’s Chinese masters have shorn the city of its democracy. Leung Kwok-hung and his supporters offer at least a chance of regrowth https://t.co/9TBOC6saDG ...

[Music] thank you today I'm going to tell you that what most people think about democracy is wrong the prevailing folk theory of democracy goes something like this in a democracy the people are always right the majority determines what's right and wrong and politicians should always just carry out the will of the people and I think we've all been brought up with this very simplistic notion about how our democracy is supposed to work um and the problem it's not true we're about to discuss whether democracies ...