Renew Democracy Initiative

Defending democracy at home. Combating authoritarianism abroad. Highlighting how they’re connected.

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The right wants a unitary executive. The DSA's new platform wants, in effect, a unitary Congress. @ell_lerner, whose grandfather helped launch the movement, on why neither side seems worried about handing power back. https://t.co/qMta9aBETY

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Fighting fascism with Marxism just trades one authoritarian temptation for another. @Kasparov63 makes the case for defending liberal democracy on its own terms. https://t.co/7E9xS72Etz

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@jaynordlinger on the asymmetry at the heart of Trump's approach to Xi Jinping, where the warmth seems to flow in only one direction. https://t.co/3yl2YeKDzl

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Most of the institutions democracies rely on were designed for a different era. As the UN convenes this week, read former NATO chief @AndersFoghR's case for a new alliance built for today's threats. https://t.co/A6veHzWaBV

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A baby boomer debates boomer power. @samuelmoyn calls for age limits—even age-weighted voting—to fix America's gerontocracy. @chavezlinda, a boomer herself, agrees aging leadership is a problem, but not on the fix. Hear them hash it out on Older/Wiser.

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@Kasparov63 lost a chess match to a machine, but still thinks AI is worth rooting for. His case for why democracies need to win the AI race, not fear it. https://t.co/77BoFnHnwF

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Germany's far-right AfD just won again. @Kasparov63 pulls three lessons for America from how the country's political center let it happen. https://t.co/5OECGpYGEa

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Can the boomers be stopped? @samuelmoyn hopes so, and makes the case to @chavezlinda that America's oldest generation has too much power and wealth. Tune in to Older/Wiser to hear a baby boomer interrogate boomer power. https://t.co/2bn0bkZqIa

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@DaliborRohac came to America as an immigrant, and he's making an unfashionable case right now: optimism about this country is still justified, even amid all the noise about its decline. https://t.co/YRkELChWzS

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From Trump admiring Xi to activists once excusing Soviet crimes, @EvanGottesman traces a strange bipartisan habit: romanticizing dictatorships instead of fixing what's actually broken at home. https://t.co/3TZMeODOH6

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Greenland's back in the headlines. @EvanGottesman already did the math on what it would actually cost the US: strategically, diplomatically, and financially. https://t.co/be3YbrCqqJ

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@Kasparov63 told @jaketapper on @CNN why he's optimistic about AI. https://t.co/S73HT3YEat

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Trump just banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for coverage he doesn't like. @Kasparov63 watched Russia dismantle its free press firsthand. His account of how it happened there is worth reading now. https://t.co/ZlRJ9aHEj6

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How did Russia actually pull off the position it's in today? @chavezlinda sat down with @DavidCornDC to work through it. https://t.co/SxYVFjTVS0

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Reagan once called out an empire by its name, and dissidents everywhere heard him. @jaynordlinger asks whether today's leaders have that same nerve when it comes to Russia's war on Ukraine. https://t.co/6dvA1ynOO3

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Today, Macron called Russia's increasing attacks on Europe "hybrid war." But as @Kasparov63 has explained, nothing about it is hybrid: it's a war, plain and simple, even if the West won't admit it. https://t.co/faxQ1UBAJW

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A year after Charlie Kirk's assassination, the country is still arguing over what it meant. @UrielEpshtein's response at the time still holds up: political violence isn't strength, it's surrender. https://t.co/HhyxVdjzvJ

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Forty years ago Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire," and the foreign-policy establishment recoiled. @jaynordlinger asks why so few leaders today will use equally plain words for Russia's atrocities in Ukraine. https://t.co/6dvA1ynOO3