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Democracy Undone: Poland’s Law and Justice Party mixes victimhood and strength in its messaging
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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg shares parallels between then and now
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Democracy Undone: How Trump sells his war on truth
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Democracy Undone: The slow death of Colombia’s peace movement
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Dec 30, 2019
Democracy Undone: Europe’s failure to protect liberty in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
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Dec 29, 2019
Democracy Undone: Meet the intellectual founder of Brazil’s far right
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Dec 28, 2019
Democracy Undone: Europe’s ‘identitarians’ insist they aren’t part of the far right
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