american democracy as a fundamentalist religion

As America remains girded against religious fundamentalism in Iran and elsewhere around the world, consider that American democracy itself constitutes a fundamentalist religion. . ... (Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, p. 5) . . The historian Michael Burleigh included fascism..

spreading democracy the american way - global

One of the US government’s acts prior to forming this so-called democracy was to declare a succession of 100 laws called “Provisionary Orders” written by an American named Paul Bremer. ... But if you ask almost any American you will learn that Iraq is now free and has..

poverty

Organized labor was once the backbone of American democracy. Decades of neoliberalism have rendered American left wary of welfare benefits for all, not just the poor. ..

book tries to show how us democracy hurt native americans

By historian attempts to show how expanding, ALBUQUERQUE, N.M — book American democracy hurt Native Americans in the early days of the nation and how tribes viewed United States as entity seeking to erase them from existence... Surviving Genocide Native Nations and United States from..

democracy’s appeal in age of trump

But Chinese respondents were about three times to have positive view of the US, and to have favorable opinion of American ideas of democracy. ... Liberal democracy faces its share of challenges, and EGF's report indicates that people in the countries surveyed tend to..

sam raudins

Ritter, whose background is in the study of women's constitutional rights and contemporary issues concerning democracy and American politics. ..

center for american progress

Sheldon Whitehouse, author of Captured The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy and the recently published ACS issue brief. ... Moderator., Vice President of Democracy and Government Reform, Center for American Progress. ..

inequality and the crisis of american democracy

Inequality and the crisis of American democracy . 20 August 2018 . On Thursday, the Economic Policy Institute reported that average CEO pay at America’s 350 largest companies grew by 17.6 percent between 2016 and 2017. ... Now the crisis of American democracy has entered..

watching american democracy in china

The conservatives tell the public that American democracy is in which money and special interests manipulate public opinions and rig the system for their own benefit — House of Cards of democracy. ... But American estate mogul is forcing Chinese public to reassess its..

civil society under siege

The authorities have already banned as undesirable National Endowment for Democracy, American institution that had funded Russian rights groups for some two decades.  ..

the end of either/or

Such inwardness of national feeling can be dangerous, and it has the important consequence for others that American democracy has no enduring taste for imperialism.. What American people still want of the world, then, is that it should allow what George Washington called the..

american democracy is doomed

The breakdown of American constitutional democracy is a contrarian view. ... The perils of presidential democracy . To understand the looming crisis in American politics, it’s useful to think about Germany, Japan, Italy, and Austria. ..

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