#Democracies

GenericPerson

GenericPerson4

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA. An introduction. And some terms, defined.Years ago, I spent many hot antipodean winters in the archives in Adelaide, Canberra, and Darwin, reading 19th century

Esperanza

endclasssociety

1. We often call things “liberal” as a pejorative. Sometimes it can get confusing if you don’t understand what liberalism is, what’s wrong with it, and why we should oppose

mat

MatTheExBot

Flag-waving patriotism is bollocks, but so is hating on one's home country just to be cool.No nation's people has a monopoly on decency or in cruelty.Judging people based on national

Shachi Nelli

nellipiercing

One citizen = One vote.But does everyone’s vote in India hold the same weight?Mathematically, it doesn’t.Thread. (1/n) Lok Sabha constituencies vary greatly in size. The smallest constituency (Lakshadweep) has 49k

Phillip Atiba Goff is from Philadelphia

DrPhilGoff

1. The administration is trying to expand its policing powers. If we do not stop it, it will be deployed during elections and it will be a disaster.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1284337917981274115 2. As

kee

KeelinBurke

Quick q, is Parler a misspelling of “parlor (parlour)” which would ironically allude to a sitting room in predominately wealthy homes where elites would chitchat or converse...or is it a

Sunanda Vashisht

sunandavashisht

Thread-Seeing a lot of ‘template articles’ from Indian origin commentators who focus on India-US relationship. Here is the template 1) India-US relationship is beyond whoever occupies the White House 2)

Mohammed Soliman

ThisIsSoliman

The Biden administration needs an inclusive foreign policy toward the Muslim world that draws upon the talents of Muslim Americans, who are better situated to be a trusted bridge between

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

Some conservatives were so alienated by Trump's divisive behavior and rhetoric, that they actively hoped that Biden would win. I was one of them. But Biden-Harris's response to the repellent

Old Salty Chief, OSC (SW) USN Ret

old_osc

@senatemajldr @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @LindseyGrahamSC @marcorubio @tedcruz [Thread]Our country is going to pay a dire price for the @GOP Placating Trump during this savage attack on democracy. Our geopolitical enemies are

Michael Chong 🇨🇦

MichaelChongMP

1/ In the spirit of being constructive, here is my advice to @JustinTrudeau for his first call with President Biden tomorrow.#cdnpoli 2/ Find a way for the KXL project to

Nick "Childish Branzino” Birman-Trickett

ntrickett16

McFaul's policy recs are all solid, but the discourse around Russia as a rising power really misrepresents the underlying political economy of Russian foreign policy as well as how the

Tim Hogan

TimInHonolulu

1. I grew up in an odd family. My parents lived in Shanghai during the post-war period in the final years of the long Chinese Civil War. My dad liked

Josh Lucas

sixfloors

I'm going to tell you why allowing @JeffBezos and @elonmusk @BillGates to horde wealth in an unparalleled time abundance is morally wrong. Whether, and to what degree, that moral failure

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

One thing I kept thinking about as I was writing this was just how much normalcy bias there is in media. There's this aversion to describing things as they are,

Stephen Horn

SteveSince91

"So much of power is an illusion, so much of influence is a delusion" says Lord Tim Bell in @Poplak and @DianaNeille's excellent @film_influence which opened @EncountersDoc festival last night.

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