Democracy 2024

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• Monday, 8 April, 2024
  Ruchir Sharma

  How Indian democracy developed east Asian characteristics

  Voters are increasingly willing to trade political freedom for economic progress

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• Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
  OutlookMichael Pooler

  Brazil’s 1964 coup casts a long shadow over Lula

  The leader has come under fierce criticism for his failure to commemorate the dark period

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• Friday, 16 February, 2024
  Artificial intelligence

  Biggest tech companies pledge to fight AI-created election ‘deepfakes’

  Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI agree at Munich Security Conference to stifle content designed to mislead voters

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• Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
  Global InsightMichael Stott

  Bukele’s authoritarianism in El Salvador may prove contagious

  Other policies of the millennial president, such as mass incarceration, are less easy to copy

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• Sunday, 4 February, 2024
  Martin Wolf

  Dissatisfaction with democracy is corrosive

  The UK is caught in a vicious downward spiral at a time when it needs bold leadership and imaginative policy

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• Friday, 2 February, 2024
  ReviewNon-Fiction

  In the Long Run — Jonathan White on how democracies are losing faith in the future

  A frightening and exhilarating historical fly-through of the democratic experiment

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
  The World 2024

  Democracy under threat in the ‘year of elections’

  About half of the world’s adult population will be entitled to vote — against a backdrop of growing illiberalism

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
  The Weekend Essay

  What the west forgot about democracy

  A handful of wealthy countries have grown used to giving lectures to the rest — now they need to start taking lessons as well

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
  Roula Khalaf

  Democracy 2024: The year of elections

  As record numbers go to the polls in 2024, the FT launches a debate on what’s at stake with short films by four renowned artists

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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  Democracy by Margaret Atwood | Democracy 2024

  The acclaimed novelist on the fragility of democracy, caught between totalitarianism and chaos

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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  In That Top by Aditi Mittal | Democracy 2024

  The Indian comedian explores family and societal conflicts over the meaning of democracy

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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  A Fragile State by Lola Shoneyin | Democracy 2024

  Democratic freedoms can vanish in a gunshot, warns the Nigerian writer

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• Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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  Terra Incognita by Elif Shafak | Democracy 2024

  The Turkish novelist explores democracy's delicately balanced ecosystem in a collaboration with renowned experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast

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• Thursday, 11 January, 2024
  The Big Read

  The rising threat to democracy of AI-powered disinformation

  Experts fear 2024 could be the year a viral undetectable deepfake has a catastrophic impact on an election

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• Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
  Martin Wolf

  Liberalism is battered but not yet broken

  Freedom is under threat in the west and elsewhere, but it must be defended

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• Friday, 5 January, 2024
  Political Fix podcast36 min listen

  2024: a testing year for democracy

  The FT’s top minds consider what’s at stake in a historic year for elections worldwide

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• Friday, 5 January, 2024
  The FT ViewThe editorial board

  The world goes to the ballot box

  Half of global adults will vote this year, but democracy is not just about elections

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• Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
  The Big Read

  Can democracy survive 2024?

  ​A historic number of elections will take place this year, but autocracy is spreading and young people are rejecting the status quo

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• Thursday, 28 September, 2023
  FT MagazineSimon Kuper

  Democracies need to work quicker and smarter. Here’s what that might look like 

  Politicians often reach the right answer — but years too late

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