By the time the young man arrived at Dr. Jonathan Colasanti’s office in downtown Atlanta, he had already...
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Seven steps we should take now to address climate change
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In many countries around the world, democracies are under attack from within by leaders who were elected by...
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Democracy Undone: Not everyone has a vote in the world’s largest democracy
Editor's note: Originally published in Foreign Policy, this dispatch by Democracy Undone Fellow Soumya Shankar explores another aspect...
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From the Pentagon Papers to Trump’s Ukraine phone call: a conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg
BOSTON - Daniel Ellsberg’s conscience and courage as the father of American whistleblowers still echoes across the generations,...
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Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook – Overview
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America and the Kurds: A history of tragedy and betrayal
The Trump White House’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria and clear the path for neighboring...
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ON THE GROUND IN ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
In New Mexico, life and death flow at the pace of the Rio Grande
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — El agua es la vida. Water is life. Doris Rhodes knows that mantra well. She inherited...
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Facing evidence of a rapidly warming Arctic, an energy researcher sees new promise in “bad” technologies
The sun never set while I was in the Arctic. Every night I stood on the deck of...
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