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How to Fix Democracy is a video and podcast series by the Bertelsmann Foundation North America and Humanity in Action dedicated to exploring practical responses to threats facing democracies.
"The most difficult thing about democracy is that it does something people don't want to do, and that is to take responsibility for their own lives."
"Democracy is not a fancy beast!" Canadian political philosopher and writer John Ralston Saul discusses how the crisis in democracy today is self-inflicted and intentional.
"The fight of today's age is against the present zeitgeist."
Contanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses how domestic problems have led to disruptions in foreign policy - turning international allies into enemies.
Maria Ressa, CEO and Co-Founder of Rappler and a Time Magazine's 2018 Person of the Year, discusses the effects of President Duterte's election on the distortion of facts through his attacks on the war on drugs as well as her experiences as a target of propaganda campaigns.
Resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute Norman Ornstein describes how his publication titled "Why Republicans Are to Blame" led him to lose many friends.
Former White House and State Department official, Laura Rosenberger, shares her belief that threats to democracy are threats to national security.
From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the collapse of the neoliberal Washington Consensus in 2008, Luce illustrates how political developments frame how we experience economic events.
A thought leader on disinformation, Anne Applebaum comments on current political polarization by arguing that unless you can have debates based on a commonly agreed upon set of facts, you cannot have democracy at all.