8 stories tagged democracy, newest first.
5 points by femto | 1 comments
Transcript of Andrew Leigh MP's 2026 Joan Kirner Social Justice Oration arguing that algorithmic social media feeds fuel political anger, and proposing remedies.
60 points by speckx | 63 comments
Blog post by Hamish Campbell on the Open Media Network site arguing that climate breakdown, inequality, tech disruption, war and political instability form overlapping crises.
95 points by karakoram | 73 comments
Pew Research Center report on international survey findings that growing shares of people say social media is harming democracy.
327 points by sohkamyung | 194 comments
BBC Future article on Finnish public libraries that lend items like sewing machines and how such libraries can strengthen democracy.
682 points by PaulHoule | 357 comments
A Frontiers in Political Science research article finding that corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies.
350 points by mooreds | 234 comments
An opinion piece in the Bucks County Beacon arguing that local journalism is essential to democracy at the community level.
530 points by pykello | 564 comments
Official Nobel Prize summary page for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
370 points by rbanffy | 192 comments
Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.