authoritarianism
For a while there last night, it looked like variations on the word joy had a puncher's chance of outnumbering references to freedom at the relentlessly message-disciplined day three of the Democratic National Convention. When onetime party rising star Sen. Cory Booker (D–N.J.) informed us about one-third of the way through that "tonight is about joy" and "achieving the impossible that should bring us joy," and that "our nominees, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, they bring the joy," the (unofficial) joy vs. freedom count stood at a respectable 21–32. But then Pennsylvania governor, veep pick runne...
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This week's featured article is "Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President," written by Elizabeth Nolan Brown in 2019, when Harris was on the campaign trail for the 2020 presidential election. This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward. Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses The post <I>The Best of Reason</I>: Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President appeared first on Reason.com.
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Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in the presidential race in Venezuela once again, but voting tally receipts collected and published online by his opposition reveal a very different outcome. In response, Maduro's regime has unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent throughout the country. As part of "Operación Tun Tun" (Operation Knock Knock), the regime is showcasing its crusade against dissent on social media and national television. Videos typically begin with footage of a protester, followed by music from A Nightmare on Elm Street and scenes of heavily armed officers detaining the individual. ...
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What's happening in Venezuela? Following Venezuela's presidential election a week and a half ago, President Nicolás Maduro's camp—which the opposition says was squarely defeated, a fact backed up by substantial documentation—has yet to release the results it promised to prove its claimed "victory." "At CNN's request, several experts analyzed the results offered by both the government-aligned National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE) and the opposition platform Comando Con Venezuela," reports the outlet. "The experts conclude that the numbers that appear to portray Maduro as the winner are ...
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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was released from Russian captivity on Thursday as part of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and Western nations in decades. Gershkovich had been imprisoned for nearly 500 days and was recently sentenced to 16 years in a penal colony. Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 while on assignment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Russian authorities claimed he was obtaining information for the CIA, though the allegations against Gershkovich are widely assumed to be false and have been denied strenuously by the Journal. Gershkovich was released around 11...
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The government-controlled electoral authority has declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of Venezuela's presidential election, securing his third consecutive six-year term. But the opposition is crying foul, contending that the authoritarian socialist did not, in fact, receive the most votes. With 80 percent of the ballots counted, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on Monday that Maduro had won 51 percent of the vote while opposition candidate Edmundo González, of the Democratic Unitary Platform, garnered 44 percent. In his victory speech, Maduro described the results as "a triumph of...
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Having tried to overturn his 2020 loss to Joe Biden with a range of undemocratic tactics, Donald Trump is now campaigning for the US presidency again and is in full authoritarian flow. Having said last December he intends to be a dictator “on day one,” he has continued to fawn over authoritarian leaders like Viktor Orbán and Xi Jinping. "They're all smart, tough,” he said of these leaders at a recent rally. “They love their country ... and Orbán was right: we have to have somebody that can protect us." But as Trump’s opponents are working hard to make known, it isn’t just the ex-president’s ow...
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest Elizabeth Nolan Brown size up the fallout from the mainstream media's lag in coverage of Joe Biden's cognitive decline, despite evidence existing well before his seismic debate performance on June 27. 01:50—Media fallout after Biden's debate performance 28:13—The Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity. 37:06—Weekly Listener Question 42:46— The Supreme Court's ruling on social media moderation 50:39—This week's cultural recommendations Mentioned in this podcast: "Ticket Ch...
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The effective altruism (E.A.) movement, which began with the premise that philanthropists should do the most good per dollar spent, injected pragmatism into an arena where good intentions can trump rational, effective number crunching. A generation of effective altruists—many schooled in Silicon Valley thought—have since embraced this metric-driven, impartial philosophy and translated their own good intentions into good works. However, artificial intelligence (AI) exposes a flaw in the movement: a powerful faction of doomsayers. The result is not just misplaced philanthropy but lobbying to cre...
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A recent study published in the journal Political Psychology investigates the rise of political authoritarianism in the United States, particularly around the events of the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The researchers found evidence that a strong sense of identity fusion with Donald Trump is linked to his followers viewing opposition members as existential threats. But fusion with the overarching identity of “America” can reduce this perception, thus diminishing support for authoritarian actions against political rivals. Political authoritarianism is on the rise globally, with significant imp...
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