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History’s most challenging moment is right now.
April 24, 1990
World & Nation
‘It is especially in the conduct of their foreign relations “ Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1836, “that democracies appear to me decidedly inferior to other governments . . . .
Sept. 29, 1996
Is democracy rising like a phoenix out of the ashes and disgrace of communism?
Nov. 1, 1991
Politics
In 1975, the usually ebullient Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then America’s envoy to the United Nations, was downright pessimistic about the prospects for democracy in the world.
Nov. 19, 1989
After 40 years of vigorously championing democracy with overt policy and covert action, the United States may soon face a tragic irony of history: At the very moment in 1992 that more than half the world’s countries are considered democratic--a historic first--America and its Western allies do not have the resources that many observers believe will be needed to keep those democracies alive into the next century.
Feb. 25, 1992
Business
Do we have too much democracy in the United States? Is there too much democracy around the globe?
June 13, 1993
Americans have taken justifiable satisfaction from this year’s triumphs of democracy worldwide.
June 4, 1990
Opinion
Authoritarian rulers around the globe will attempt to use coming elections to consolidate power. But new democratic tools that empower citizens offer hope.
Dec. 28, 2023
Some, however, wonder whether the U.S. has the political will to take concrete steps.
Nov. 7, 2003
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded to what he took as thinly veiled U.S. criticism of his controversial electoral reforms in Mexico.
Feb. 28, 2023