democracy

In Hungary under Viktor Orbán’s rule, the first year of the pandemic and the accompanying crises have seen increasing levels of polarization and volatility. Ironically, just as the country’s borders have remained closed to international…

 Due macro-tesi di fondo stanno emergendo con insistenza. La prima vede l’arrivo di Joe Biden alla Casa Bianca, e poi l’arrivo del governo Draghi in Italia, come veri punti di svolta: si tratterebbe di segni inequivocabili, seppure…

The position of tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook is under increasing scrutiny, and for good reason. Both their political power and market power have in many ways outgrown our conventional governmental structures. Albeit formally…

The coup in Myanmar in early February, the country’s first in more than three decades, has reshaped Myanmar’s political landscape. The country had been on a shaky path toward some kind of democracy, following the 2015 election landslide for…

Over the past decade, Aleksei Navalny has turned into the most effective disrupter of Russian political and social life. Propelled by his unbending personal political ambition, he is now the main counterweight to the current state of things…