The masthead of The Washington Post bears a motto: “Democracy dies in darkness.” Some find the phrase melodramatic, but it is hard to deny that it is true. One could also say that democracy ...

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The leadership of national newspapers directly interfering with the editorial decisions of journalists is neither moral nor ethical: It is dangerous for democracy. The 2024 presidential election is ...

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, ...

What is surprising, is that the owner of The Washington Post does too. Democracy dies when a minority of Americans determine what goes dark there.

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Last week we watched two iconic newsrooms step away from endorsing candidates due to the cowardice of their billionaire backers, signaling a crumbling of our societal infrastructure. It’s failing.

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, 2024. It was 248 years old. The cause of death included partisanship ...

Last week we watched two iconic newsrooms step away from endorsing candidates due to the cowardice of their billionaire backers, signaling a crumbling of our societal infrastructure. It’s failing.

To paraphrase the Post’s Trump-era slogan, democracy didn’t die in darkness after all. It died in broad daylight, after a meeting with one of the richest men in the world. Afterward, the many ...