Posts by Al Vanderklipp

Originally published in the National Endowment for Democracy’s Democracy Digest | May 1, 2020 “Overall, the dangers are much greater than the opportunities” in terms of the pandemic’s impact on liberty and democracy, says Stanford University’s Francis Fukuyama. “I do think there are opportunities for improving policies and institutions, but right now the dangers are much more…

Originally published in The Fulcrum | May 1, 2020 Fifty former foreign policy officials, politicians and experts at promoting democracy abroad have united behind a diplomatically worded but blunt warning: The coronavirus could rapidly incubate autocratic behavior that threatens the integrity of the presidential election. In an open letter on Thursday, the bipartisan group urged President Trump,…