American democracy at its…
Election was fixed. He is an establishment man. Fake votes have been cast. Election management system collapsed. Will not accept the result. Typical of Pakistani elections! Wait a minute- we…
American democracy is rigged
In the United States presidential elections, there are two towering political parties – the Democratic and the Republican - that during the course of their ‘primary’ elections get to choose…
End of the American century?
Everyone is feeling the turbulence in world affairs, with the change of guard at the White House making headlines. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has stopped funding…
American exceptionalism
What happens when a nation feels imprisoned in its own myths? Perhaps it starts considering itself as an exceptional nation. That is the subject matter of a new book by…
Democracy Summit
TOWARDS the end of March, the US hosted the second Democracy Summit. The stated objective was to put democracy and human rights at the heart of the Biden administration’s foreign…
Our Latin American slide
After a CIA- and MI6-orchestrated campaign of mass killing and ‘purges’ in Indonesia in the 1960s that left an estimated upward of one million Indonesians dead, the attention of the…
Democracy and prosperity at 75
THOUGH it was a few years ago, I still vividly remember an elderly acquaintance telling me about his perilous journey from East Punjab to Multan during partition. The gentleman was…
Bulldozer democracy
ON the last day of February 20 years ago, 23-year-old American activist Rachel Corrie wrote to her mother from Rafah in the Gaza Strip: “I think I could see a…
Is this a democracy in decline?
The US is in crisis – not one but many. In case you are wondering, Trump did not create these crises; they were already there. He merely exploited them to…
Democracy beyond elections
Elections are an integral part of democracy. But even a free and fair election is not the only factor that makes a country a liberal democracy. In an essay published…
