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The New Generation Voices Video Series
In the New Generation Voices series, the Bertelsmann Foundation in partnership with Humanity in Action Germany has created a collection of digital animations portraying how young Germans and Americans see common global challenges and how the future can be shaped best by working together.
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How to Fix Democracy with Raghuram Rajan
"There is an incompatibility between democracy and socialism. What capitalism thrives on is economic competition, what democracy thrives on is political competition."
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An Indigenous Person's History of the United States
In the first installment of the webinar series "Rights and Resistance: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty," host and Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren discusses the history of the United States from their perspective as a Catawba native.
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How to Fix Democracy with Branko Milanvoic
"Capitalism has to be essentially an amoral society, where law replaces moral incubation usually obtained through religion or ethics."
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How to Fix Democracy with Larry Diamond
"We who believe that democracy is a worthy goal and indeed a moral imperative have to have a better answer than its simply not as bad as any authoritarian alternative."
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How to Fix Democracy with Annika Savill
"Democracy itself is so controversial within the UN that it is not written in the charter."
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How to Fix Democracy with Leon Botstein
"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."
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How to Fix Demcracy with Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader believes that democracy is about civic organization, not just public opinion. He reminds the public that there is something that politicians want more than money from special interests: your vote.
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How to Fix Democracy with John Ralston Saul
"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.
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