by Eric Chenoweth The following article was posted as part of a series published to commemorate Albert Shanker, a unique American union leader, on the 20th anniversary of his death. The full series, published by the Albert Shanker Institute (the foundation established in his name by the American Federation of Teachers), can be found here. Albert Shanker and [...]
December 16, 2017 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version Long before all the votes were counted, American citizens were told to accept the election of Donald Trump as the next US president. We are still being told this despite mounting evidence that he may be beholden to a hostile foreign power for his election. […]
December 17, 2016 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version Americans are being told that the Electoral College overrides the national vote in US presidential elections because the nation’s founders established a federal system for states to determine the selection of the country’s only national office. […]
by Eric Chenoweth The following appeared in the Washington Post, November 26, 2016. In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by a hostile foreign power to manipulate public opinion prior to the vote. […]
The following article appeared in The Washington Post, November 2, 2016. By Eric Chenoweth Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has posed many challenges to U.S. media. In at least one frightening respect, it has failed: News outlets are actively abetting an authoritarian and imperialist foreign power’s attempt to manipulate a U.S. presidential election to aid its [...]
Revised October 7, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth Editorial boards of newspapers have become the most responsible civic voices in this year’s US presidential election. […]
An Open Letter to an American Citizen About the 2016 Presidential Election September 16, 2016 by Eric Chenoweth PDF Version […]
Revised July 28, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth “Democracy may, after all, turn out to be an historical accident, a brief parenthesis that is closing before our eyes.” — Jean François Revel, How Democracies Perish, 1983 There have been many who prognosticated democracy’s doom. […]
June 24, 2016 PDF Version by Eric Chenoweth In 1976, the French political theorist Jean François Revel warned of the “totalitarian temptation” in the West at a time when many intellectuals were attacking political democracy, often in favor of Soviet communism. Forty years later, the danger posed by Soviet communism is gone, but [...]
Opening Remarks: Eric Chenoweth, Co-Director, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe Public Memorial Meeting on the Anniversary of Miljenko Dereta’s Death Organized by Civic Initiatives / November 23, 2015 […]