Most people assume democracy can be made perfectly fair with the right voting rules but mathematics says otherwise. Arrow’s ...

Democracy is backsliding. Valery Perry joins us to discuss threats abroad—and here at home. With one in three global elections contested and turnout falling, democracy is in retreat. Valery Perry, ...

From small-town protests to crowded courthouses and fiery town halls, ordinary Americans are standing up, taking action, and refusing to let democracy slip away. The fight for our democracy lives in ...

In a world where “democracy” is repeated like a sacred word, few stop to ask who actually benefits from the chaos. This video breaks down how disagreement is used not to strengthen society, but to ...

new video loaded: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening. transcript “For years, Curtis Yarvin had been writing online about political theory in relative obscurity.

new video loaded: Is Trump a Test or Triumph for Democracy? transcript I mean, a particular kind of conservative will look at something like the British monarchy and say: There’s a kind of mystique to ...

Will California say yes to redistricting with Prop 50? Californians cast Prop 50 ballots in fight over redistricting.

In September this year, the Nobel prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa gave a powerful speech to the National Press Club about the ways in which authoritarians manipulate social media. She called for ...

Just this week, using a “security justifies all” narrative, the Trump administration took over Washington, D.C.’s police department and mobilized National Guard troops, portraying the city as overrun ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt once dryly noted: “truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other” (1961, p. 227) No kidding. Right now, truth and politics in the U.S. seem to be not only on ...

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. The current debate over bombing Iran is surreal. To begin with, ...