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    1O PRACTICAL (AND SOMETIMES UNCOMFORTABLE) IDEAS TO FIX DEMOCRACY

    Jan 17, 2022 2 minutes
    Illustration by TYLER COMRIE
    —Stefan Theil, deputy editor

    or 15 consecutive years, Freedom House’s annual tally has recorded a decline in the number of democracies worldwide. It’s a steady loss of ground that Larry Diamond, a political scientist at Stanford University, calls a “democratic recession.” And no event put the reality of democratic backsliding more dramatically on display than the

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