Tag: Democracy

You Can’t Say That!

Matthew Crawford · August 11, 2017 6:20 am

President of Montenegro Filip Vujanovic and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during a ceremony to mark the accession of Montenegro at NATO Headquarters. Ninety-seven senators voted in March to add Montenegro to NATO. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

America is helping Montenegro’s democracy mature

Neil Emilfarb · August 2, 2017 4:01 am

We have elected a group of individuals who don't have the capabilities to manage or run a Dairy Queen, let alone guide, advise, and run the world's largest capitalistic society and business. When given the opportunity to make tough decisions, they argue instead. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

We need leadership in the government, not whiners and wimps

Robert Blaha · August 1, 2017 4:58 pm

The opposition in Venezuela had found no other way than to create a parallel legal structure to confront the most powerful government in one of the soon-to-be one of the poorest countries on the continent. Venezuela faces not only starvation but one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world, with a growing refugee population seeking protection mainly in the United States, Colombia, and Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela nears the road’s end between populism and dictatorship

Jose Mauricio Gaona · July 29, 2017 4:01 am

Ricardo Rossello, governor of Puerto Rico, is interviewed at the governor's official residence (La Fortaleza) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 28. Puerto Rico's economy has been contracting for a decade. Last year, almost 65,000 residents left the island, keeping pace with the previous two years, when the exodus reached the worst since at least the 1980s. (Alejandro Granadillo/Bloomberg)

Gov. Ricardo Rossello wants to put Puerto Rico on Congress’ agenda

Anna Giaritelli · July 24, 2017 4:02 am

Cracking down on free expression, restricting free elections and generally bullying the people of Hong Kong, the Chinese government has lost all credibility. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Beltway Confidential

In Hong Kong, proof of China’s climate deception

Tom Rogan · June 30, 2017 6:30 pm

Curing social ills is not just a matter of political desire, and having strong leaders does nothing to abate that. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Ahead of the Trend

Ahead of the Trend: Strong politicians and experts can't solve all our country's problems

Jerrod Laber · June 2, 2017 12:00 am

California gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, jokes with John Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party, before addressing the California Democratic Party Convention, Saturday, May 20, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Democratic battle cry in California: ‘F–k Donald Trump’

John Siciliano · May 21, 2017 8:03 pm

Safe for Democracy

Gary Schmitt · April 28, 2017 8:00 am

The Washington Post's Ed Rogers is a lobbyist for Raytheon, the manufacturer of the same Tomahawk missiles that rained hellfire down on Syria. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/U.S. Navy via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Raytheon’s war lobbyist, Ed Rogers, thrives in the opinion pages of the Washington Post

Philip Wegmann · April 13, 2017 9:34 pm

It's been four months since the November election yet, in many ways, the news media has failed to move on to other stories because it didn't get that story right.

This is what democracy looks like

Salena Zito · April 2, 2017 4:04 am

Police officers stand guard on a road leading to the Houses of Parliament in London on March 13. On Wednesday a man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death before being fatally shot by police within Parliament's grounds. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The real danger to democracy

Dan Hannan · March 27, 2017 4:05 am