remembering 1989: what distinguishes europe today?

The current difficulties for Czech democracy are mainly caused by people who formed the silent majority in the former regime. ... Most of them never really became democrats. ... As soon as they encountered the first major difficulties they returned to the reflexive behaviour they learned in..

the atheist conservative: » pakistan

Since then, she and other Democrats have described cyber breaches in the strongest possible terms, such as “an act of war” and “an assault on our democracy.” . But there is no indication Democrats put those concerns into practice when they entrusted the Pakistani dual..

sweden: new government, old policies

'It is ... about decency, a decent democracy. A government led by the Social Democrats guarantees that the Sweden Democrats -- an extremist and racist party -- do not get influence', Löfven said on September 9, as he was casting his vote. . ... But in Sweden we stand up for..

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