democracy

Scott Gilmore: The United Nations has sent election monitoring teams to better organized countries than America. Brace for chaos.

Terry Glavin: Riots as far as the eye can see. And even in the world’s most stable democracies, the absence of street protestors masked a loss of public confidence in governing institutions.

John Geddes: As Trump keeps going lower, out-of-fashion theorist Northrop Frye explains all the shrieking—and even shows a way past it to democratic renewal

’Hong Kong is the foreshadow of what will happen to the western world,’ warns one leading demonstrator. ’Whatever happens here is the first chapter’

Terry Glavin: ’We have emboldened China’s thuggish behaviours, because we haven’t done anything,’ says one organizer

Paul Wells: Democracy and openness are in decline, and the U.S. president—not Canada—is on the winning side

Liberal democracy isn’t the only game in town. And 2018 may usher in more decay of our preferred political system.

Across the West, mainstream politicians have preached centrist compromise, but the cracks are showing and a reckoning is due.

Opinion: Crackdowns, like Spain’s assault on Catalan referendum voters, often produce exactly the change governments don’t want

Opinion: Lee Smolin on the intersection of the two practices, and why Canada is an ideal locus for scientific research