Western Democracy Is on Trial, More than Any Time Since WWII
... prevent the onset of the greatest global financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression (barely managing to address it ... ... systems). Now, America’s first non-white president, Barack Obama, has encountered a level of obstructionism and partisanship ... ... people further to the right. The assault on democratic norms in Turkey by its government is far worse. Still worse in that region,... ... policy, as racial, ethnic, and religious tension, fears of Islamic terrorism, nativism, and demagogues become ever more commonplace,...