[ad_1] The Presidential election in Guatemala, which will be decided on Sunday, in a second and final round of voting, initially appeared to be over before it began. Within two months of the start of the race, at least three prominent candidates had already been disqualified by the country’s electoral tribunal. Two were conservatives and… Continue reading Is Guatemala About to See an Upset Win for Democracy?
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Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself
[ad_1] The events that culminated in the rollout of the Justice Department’s most recent indictment of Donald Trump, on Tuesday, had a familiar ring: a barrage of social-media broadsides and gratuitous insults from the putative defendant, and hours of breathless cable-TV vamping about news that had not yet happened. (“A micro-development, but that’s all we… Continue reading Trump’s Offense Against Democracy Itself