The New York Times and major European publications recognize the US Department of Justice’s pursuit of Julian Assange as an attack on press freedom. Now, say it louder.
Given the startling proliferation of illiberal and antidemocratic tendencies in the American polity, how should we rate the health of our own liberal democracy?
The Pacific island nation’s attempted deportation of an Australian-born judge shows how the decolonizing world’s reliance on foreign-born judges threatens nascent democracies.