Originally published in INSIDER | December 17, 2021 By Grace Panetta Julie Anderson, who is vying for the role of Washington State’s secretary of state, says she likes “a challenge.” But even in a state that’s elected independent-minded secretaries of state in the past, Anderson said, trying to get elected as a nonpartisan candidate within…
Originally published in Forbes | January 18, 2021 By Sebastien Roblin Since the 1980s, promoting democracy has remained a basic tenet of U.S. foreign policy, one supported by a network of partner non-governmental organizations and firms. And that stance, despite the persistence of certain infamous exceptions, has generally been maintained for decades with bipartisan support….
Originally published in The New York Times Opinion | December 15, 2020 By Susan D. Hyde and Elizabeth N. Saunders After the Electoral College vote on Monday affirming his election, Joe Biden declared that “nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish” the “flame of democracy.” Mr. Biden’s speech and the…
Originally published in The Washington Post | July 10, 2020 Across the country, election officials are living with a palpable sense of dread. Their worry is less about who will win or lose on Election Day than about how our vast, diverse system of voting will function amid a pandemic. Evidence from some primaries this…
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,…
Originally Published: US News & World Report | April 7, 2020 IT MAY BE A SIGN OF things to come: Wisconsin voters went to the polls Tuesday in what could be a pivotal race for the Democratic presidential nomination and during a time of national crisis. And they won’t know who won for almost a week….
