Tag: Political Systems

So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? | Salon.com

US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold a meeting at UN Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Australia’s Scott Morrison the 3rd Musketeer?

There’s a truism of conventional wisdom, broadly accepted on both sides of the Atlantic, that British and American politics since World War II have run in rough parallel. Sometimes one of the two Anglophone democracies gets ahead and sometimes the other falls behind, but roughly similar phenomena — adjusted for cultural differences and quite different political systems — tend to occur at roughly the same time.

Source: So what the hell happened to Boris Johnson — and can it happen to Donald Trump? | Salon.com

Democracy Is Good, Actually

There are moments when even the most committed of democrats find themselves despairing of political democracy. But the system has proven again and again to be the last best hope of ordinary people in defending their pursuit of happiness against tyrants of all stripes — both public and private.

Democracy Is Good, Actually