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News Articles: democracy

Demonstrators stage a 'die in' at Atlanta's Piedmont Park Sunday

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  • News

Demonstrators stage a 'die in' at Atlanta's Piedmont Park on Sunday

Over 100 protesters gathered at a park in Atlanta on Sunday afternoon to speak out against what they’re calling the “death of democracy.” 

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks on during Turning Point USA's AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on Dec. 22, 2024, in Phoenix. The annual four day conference geared toward energizing and connecting conservative youth hosts some of the country's leading conservative politicians and activists.

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  • National

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, according to a national survey.

April 22, 2025
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
Hungary's parliament building as seen from Buda Castle, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban has moved his office to.

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  • Europe

How to dismantle democracy: Lessons aspiring autocrats may take from Hungary's Orban

The dismantling of Hungary's democracy is a point of fascination for political scientists around the world — including those advising the Trump administration.

April 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
A supporter of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol holds a placard reading "Stop the Steal" as he takes part in a rally near Yoon's residence in Seoul on Sunday.

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  • World

Lessons from self-inflicted blows to democracy in South Korea and the U.S.

The brief declaration of martial law in South Korea last month has drawn comparisons to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The attempted power grabs could hold lessons for other democracies.

January 06, 2025
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By:
  • Anthony Kuhn
Half of the world's population lives in countries where elections took place this year. But only around half of those elections were in countries where they could be viewed as free and fair.

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  • Perspective

History has never ended, but are we at a crossroads again?

Oxford professor Ben Ansell says we are witnessing a battle between nationalism and liberalism that will write our own time indelibly into the history books of tomorrow.

December 20, 2024
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  • Ben Ansell
Berry College and Georgia Tech University students pictured for WNET’s Preserving Democracy social media campaign, in which GPB, as a partner, asked students what democracy meant to them. Ambria Burton & Allexa Ceballos/GPB News

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  • Elections

Preserving Democracy: GPB asks college students about voting plans and democracy

In partnership with WNET for the nonpartisan Preserving Democracy project's "Ready to Vote" social media campaign, Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed students from Berry College in Rome, Ga., and Georgia Tech in Atlanta about their plans to vote and their thoughts on democracy ahead of the election.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
Vice President Harris speaks during a campaign rally in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Oct. 28, 2024.

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  • Politics

Harris returns to the site of Trump’s Jan. 6 rally to make her closing argument

A week before Election Day, Vice President Harris will use the backdrop to lay out the case for turning the page on the divisive and chaotic politics of her Republican opponent.

October 29, 2024
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  • Tamara Keith
 Former Republican Gov. Nathan Deal (left) is part of a new group of prominent former elected officials who are focused on pushing back on election disinformation and defending those who have sworn to uphold the rule of law. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder (2023 file photo)

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  • Politics

Bipartisan group of former elected officials launches effort to restore trust in democracy

Prominent former elected officials in Georgia from both sides of the aisle are banding together to launch a new group focused on restoring trust in democracy and defending the state election system. The Democracy Defense Project, which was announced Tuesday, will consist of some former heavy hitters in Georgia politics: former Republican Gov. Nathan Deal, former Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes, former Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, who is a Democrat. 

June 25, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
People hold posters and candles outside a Mumbai church holding a memorial mass for the Indian rights activist and Jesuit priest Stan Swamy on July 6, 2021. Swamy was detained for nine months without trial under Indian anti-terrorism laws, and died on July 5, 2021 ahead of a bail hearing, officials said.

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  • World

What does the death of a jailed Jesuit priest say about India's democracy under Modi?

Indian police accused Stan Swamy of terrorism. His supporters say he was framed and evidence planted on his computer. Some call it Narendra Modi's Watergate. Six years on, no one has resigned.

June 02, 2024
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  • Lauren Frayer
President Biden speaks to graduating students at the Morehouse College commencement Sunday in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

At Morehouse, Biden says dissent should be heard because democracy is 'still the way'

Facing potential headwinds with both young voters and Black voters, President Biden's Morehouse College commencement address focused on his view of the importance — and future of — democracy.

May 20, 2024
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Jeongyoon Han
Supporters celebrate the release of Senegal's top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his key ally Bassirou Diomaye Faye outside Sonko's home in Dakar, Senegal, Thursday, March 14, 2024.

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  • Africa

Senegal heads to the polls after delayed elections - here's what you need to know

Senegal will finally go to the polls this weekend, in a vote that was delayed, then reinstated. A beacon of relative stability in a restless region, its democratic resilience has been sorely tested.

March 22, 2024
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu and
  • Ayen Deng Bior
People take parte in a march organized by citizen organizations demanding that electoral autonomy be respected in the upcoming general elections in downtown Mexico City, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Thousands rail against Mexico's president and ruling party in 'march for democracy'

Thousands of demonstrators cloaked in pink marched through cities in Mexico and abroad on Sunday in what they called a "march for democracy" targeting the country's ruling party.

February 18, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Ahead of his speech, President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attended a small wreath-laying ceremony at the National Memorial Arch in Valley Forge National Historical Park on Jan. 5, 2024.

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  • Elections

Biden says the fight for democracy is at the heart of his 2024 rematch with Trump

President Biden used his first campaign event of 2024 to mark the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, saying his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, posed a serious risk to democracy.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez,
  • Deepa Shivaram,
  • and 1 more
The street where Heather Heyer was killed during the Nazi rally in 2017 has been renamed to Heather Heyer Way. Residents in Charlottesville say that day still leaves an impact on the town.

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  • Politics

Biden uses Charlottesville to talk about political violence. But he hasn't been there

President Biden says the 2017 Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., was a critical moment for the country, and pushed him to run for president against Trump.

November 27, 2023
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
In this file photo, a member of the Proud Boys, right, stands in front of a counter protester as members of the Proud Boys and other right-wing demonstrators rally on Sept. 26, 2020.

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  • Politics

More Americans say they support political violence ahead of the 2024 election

Nearly a quarter of Americans believe that "patriots may need to resort to violence to save the country" while an overwhelming majority think democracy is at risk in a new PRRI survey.

October 25, 2023
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By:
  • Ashley Lopez
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