This section provides a curated list of media analysis of the COVID-19 phenomenon and its effect on democracy. The aim is to provide interesting pieces that pick out key themes and issues, with a broadly global focus.

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The list below is a selective collection. To conduct your own searches for media in particular world regions and countries, we recommend the The Big Index of Global Newspapers [2021 Update]

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2022

ARIRANG, ‘President-elect Yoon calls for drafting of 2nd extra budget bill for COVID-19 relief’ (23 March 2022)

Sanjay RUPARELIA, ‘In India, the government’s election machine is humming – but the economy and democracy are at risk’ The Globe & Mail (22 March 2022)

Zhuoran LI, ‘What Keeps China’s Zero-COVID Policy Going’ The Diplomat (22 March 2022)

Chelsey COX, ‘Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tests positive for COVID-19’ USA Today (22 March 2022)

UCA NEWS, ‘China pledges 20 million Covid vaccinations to Cambodia’ (21 March 2022)

Cliff VENZON, ‘Philippine presidential candidates ring alarm over COVID surge threat' Nikkei Asia (20 March 2022)

Sofia TOMACRUZ, ‘Vaccines, research, more funds: Presidential bets start looking long term to address pandemic’ Rappler (20 March 2022)

Alex PRIOR & Maya KORNBERG, ‘Pandemic parliaments: lessons learned from two years trying to run democracies living under COVID-19’ The Conversation (18 March 2022)

David LEONHARDT, ‘Covid and the ‘Very Liberal’’ New York Times (18 March 2022)

Bahia ALBRECHT & Gaura NAITHANI, ‘Digital authoritarianism: A global phenomenon’ Deutsche Welle (17 March 2022)

Kotaro HOSAKAWA, ‘South Korea becomes world's COVID hot spot as infections surge’ Nikkei Asia (17 March 2022)

AL-JAZEERA, ‘COVID: S Korea reports record cases as Omicron wave nears peak’ (17 March 2022)

Andrew SOLENDER, ‘Multiple House Democrats get COVID after retreat’ AXIOS (14 March 2022)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘Taking stock as America moves into a new phase of the pandemic’ (March 12th 2022 edition)

Mike LILLIS & Aris FOLLEY, ‘Democrats yank COVID relief after revolt by own members’ The Hill (9 March 2022)

THE LOCAL, ‘9 ways that two years of Covid have changed France’ (9 March 2022)

Umberto BACCHI, ‘Pandemic surveillance: is tracing tech here to stay?’ Thomson Reuters Foundation News (9 March 2022)

REUTERS, ‘Anti-Covid controls protest convoy gathers on outskirts of Washington DC’ The Guardian (6 March 2022)

Alaa ELASSAR, ‘A convoy of truckers protesting Covid-19 measures is expected to arrive in the DC area this weekend. Here's what we know’ CNN (5 March 2022)

5 CHICAGO, ‘Convoy Picks Up Cars, Anti-Ukraine Talking Points Ahead of Washington Arrival’ (4 March 2022)

Jordan PASCALE, ‘Trucker Convoys Arrive In Hagerstown, Plans Unclear’ (4 March 2022)

Melody SCHREIBER, ‘‘Bot holiday’: Covid disinformation down as social media pivot to Ukraine’ The Guardian (4 March 2022)

KFF, ‘Large Shares of the Public Worry about the Consequences of Both Ending and Keeping COVID-19 Restrictions, with Partisans Largely Split on Which Direction is Most Concerning’ (1 March 2022)

Ethan GRIFFITHS & Caitlan JOHNSTON, ‘'Not demonstrably justified': High Court upholds challenge to Police and NZDF vaccination mandates, terminations suspended’ NZ Herald (25 February 2022)

Nicholas THOMAS, ‘Hong Kong’s cracking zero-COVID strategy’ East Asia Forum (23 February 2022)

Jeremy YOUDE, ‘Asia’s cautious approach to Omicron” East Asia Forum’ (22 February 2022)

Zen SOO & Alice FUNG, ‘Hong Kong orders mandatory COVID-19 tests for all residents’ The Sydney Morning Herald (22 February 2022)

Ronald MAY, ‘A challenging year for Papua New Guinea’ East Asia Forum (19 February 2022)

Julia MANCHESTER, ‘COVID-19 rules boomerang on Democrats’ Thew Hill (17 February 2022)

Eric TING, ‘Democrats' internal polling shows swing voters believe party went 'too far' on COVID’ SFGATE (17 February 2022)

Greg IP, ‘China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy Holds Lessons for Other Nations’ Wall Street Journal (16 February 2022)

Peter LEE, “Covid-19: Pro-democracy party protests Hong Kong’s ‘dynamic zero Covid’ policy” Hong Kong Free Press (15 February 2022)

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, “Cambodia: Covid-19 Used to Justify Crackdown on Union” (15 February 2022)

Greg FEALY, “Indonesia’s democracy under attack as presidential politics heats up” Australian Financial Review (14 February 2022)

Josh HAMMER, ‘Democrats' Recent Rejection of COVID Insanity Will Not Save Them This Fall’ Newsweek (11 December 2022)

Michael DAY, ‘Global democracy under attack as states use Covid rules to crush civil liberties, says report’ i NEWS (10 February 2022)

Jon HENLEY, ‘Paris police authority bans ‘freedom convoy’ Covid protests’ The Guardian (9 February 2022)

Thitinan PONGSUDHIRAK, ‘Southeast Asia’s new-old cold war’ The Strategist (9 February 2022)

Anne FLAHERTY, ‘Pressure builds for Biden, Democrats to move past COVID’ ABC News (9 February 2022)

Mara LIASSON, ‘Democrats roll back COVID restrictions in their states as omicron attitudes shift’ (9 February 2022)

Josh BORNSTEIN, ‘Josh Bornstein: Australia is suffering a democratic recession – and we can’t blame COVID’ New Daily (8 February 2022)

Bibhudatta PRADHAN, ‘India’s political parties spar over covid crisis as polls near’ Bloomberg (8 February 2022)

Ted REGENCIA, ‘COVID tames race to replace Duterte as Philippine president’ Global Government Forum (8 February 2022)

Meghan MURPHY, ‘In Thailand, the COVID-19 Pandemic Unites Old Factions in Discontent’ The Diplomat (8 February 2022)

Shibani MAHTANI & Theodora YU, ‘Hong Kong’s ‘zero-covid’ policy buckles under the onslaught of omicron — but authorities won’t let it go’ The Washington Post (8 February 2022)

FRANCE 24, ‘Mandatory Covid vaccination rules come into force in Austria’ (5 February 2022)

Greg RAYMOND, ‘Thailand doubles down on authoritarianism’ East Asia Forum (4 February 2022)

David S. G. GOODMAN, ‘How will China handle the dual threats of COVID and political protests at the Winter Olympics?’ The Conversation (1 February 2022)

David BROWN, ‘Vietnam’s path forward on COVID-19 and corruption’ East Asia Forum (25 January 2022)

CHIA Siow Yue, ‘Generational change in Singapore’s politics’ East Asia Forum (22 January 2022)

Harry MILLER, ‘Populist politics lost support globally during the pandemic, research finds – CNBC’ Canada News Media (17 January 2022)

2021

Brigid DELANEY, ‘The pandemic has forced ‘safe, comfortable’ Australians to confront human rights. So what’s next?’ The Guardian (3 December 2021)

Gay ALCORN, ‘How The Age covered the pandemic bill’ The Age (3 December 2021)

Tim GOSLING, Edward SZEKERES, Claudia CIOBANU, ‘Democracy Digest: Covid Ravages Undervaccinated Region’ Balkan Insight (19 November 2021)

Maureen BRESLIN, 'Democracy deteriorating worldwide amid pandemic: report', The Hill (22 November 2021)

Hans-Georg BETZ, 'The Meaning of Freedom in the Times of COVID-19', Fair Observer (23 November 2021)

OTAGO DAILY TIMES, ‘'Contemptuous' Covid Bill passes under urgency’ (24 November 2021)

Sylvia POGGIOLI, 'Italy's New COVID Vaccine Mandate Is One Of The Strictest In The World' National Public Radio (24 November 2021)

Alan GREENE, ‘Austrian lockdown for unvaccinated comes close to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination’ Channel News Asia (23 November 2021)

Aurelien BREEDEN, 'Unrest over vaccine mandates and economic inequality rocks Guadeloupe.' The New York Times (22 November 2021)

Madi DAY & Bronwyn CARLSON, ‘White supremacist and far right ideology underpin anti-vax movements’ The Conversation (22 November 2021)

Gabrielle APPLEBY, Catherine WILLIAMS, Maria O'SULLIVAN & William PARTLETT, ‘Victoria’s controversial pandemic bill: 6 ways for the government to show it is serious about scrutiny’ The Conversation (15 November 2021)

Bianca HALL, ‘What’s in the bill? Your pandemic legislation questions answered’ The Age (13 November 2021)

RMIT ABC FACT CHECK, ‘Would Victoria's proposed pandemic laws give Daniel Andrews the power to declare a pandemic without justification?’ ABC News (12 November 2021)

David HUTT, ‘Did COVID-19 Strengthen Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia?’ The Diplomat (12 November 2021)

John RUWITCH, Emily FENG, 'A citizen journalist who shined a light on the pandemic in Wuhan may die in prison', Georgia Public Broadcasting (Thursday 11 November 2021)

Andrea CIPRIANO, 'Pandemic Surveillance and Racial Bias', The Crime Report (Tuesday 9 November 2021)

Ruth POLLARD, ‘Is India really ready for the next big COVID outbreak?’ (8 November 2021)

Robert GUEST, ‘The aftermath of the pandemic will make politics more turbulent’ The Economist (8 November 2021

Daniel GINGERICH, Jan VOGLER, 'What the 14th Century Plague Tells Us About How Covid Will Change Politics', Politico (Sunday 7 November 2021)

Elanah URETSKY, 'The US was not prepared for a pandemic – free market capitalism and government deregulation may be to blame', The Conversation (Friday 5 November 2021)

Félix KRAWATZEK & Gwendolyn SASSE, ‘Belarus: how an unpopular government is struggling to manage the COVID crisis’ The Conversation (4 November 2021)

Amber SCHULTZ, ‘Looking back on COVID: how the pandemic turned into a war on civil liberties’ Crikey (4 November 2021)

William PARTLETT, ‘Victoria’s fast-tracked pandemic bill is vital. It’s also flawed and needs fixing’ Crikey (4 November 2021)

EDITORIAL, ‘Privacy is a right, not an ACT government smokescreen’ Canberra Times (3 November 2021)

Rachel EDDIE & Ashleigh McMILLAN, ‘One protester arrested as hundreds rally against pandemic laws’ The Age (30 October 2021)

Bianca HALL, ‘New pandemic laws to face upper house amendments: so what’s in them?’ The Age (30 October 2021)

Martin WILLIAMS, 'The Welsh government is escaping scrutiny over COVID-19', Open Democracy (30 October 2021)

'Poll: Satisfaction with human rights situation in Estonia declines slightly', Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) (30 October 2021)

OPEN LETTER, ‘An open letter against Victoria’s new pandemic laws’ The Age (29 October 2021)

Rachel EDDIE, Annika SMETHURST, 'Antithetical to basic democratic principles’: Top silks oppose pandemic laws', The Age (29 October 2021)

Thomas MANCH, 'Government 'deletes' proposed election-delaying power in Covid-19 bill', Stuff NZ (29 October 2021)

'HSE researchers discover how people’s values affect their attitudes to COVID-19 restrictions', EurkAlert (29 October 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Brazilian Senate committee approves report calling for indictment of President Jair Bolsonaro over COVID-19 handling’ (27 October 2021)

Elise KINSELLA & Mary GEARIN, ‘Here's how Victorian government's proposed pandemic laws will work and what experts say’ ABC News (27 October 2021)

William PARTLETT, 'Victoria’s draft pandemic law is missing one critical element – stronger oversight of the government’s decisions' The Conversation (26 October 2021)

Sumeyya ILANBEY, ‘‘Draconian’: Government introduces new pandemic laws into Parliament’ The Age (26 October 2021)

Michael BRADLEY, ‘Restoration of rights: living with COVID means returning personal freedoms’ Crikey (26 October 2021)

Gabriele GRATTON, Barton LEE, 'Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal' Pro Market (20 October 2021)

Richard WIKE, Janell FETTEROLF, Shannon SCHUMACHER & JJ MONCUS, 'Citizens in Advanced Economies Want Significant Changes to Their Political Systems' Pew Research (Thursday 21 October 2021)

Jacob GERSHMAN, 'Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Surviving Nearly All Court Challenges', Wall Street Journal ( 22 October 2021)

Connie DIMSDALE, 'New Zealand Covid restrictions: Expert says ‘two-tier’ rules are needed even if they seem to ‘violate rights’' iNews UK (25 October 2021)

William PARTLETT, 'Victoria’s draft pandemic law is missing one critical element – stronger oversight of the government’s decisions' The Conversation (26 October 2021)

Sumeyya ILANBEY, ‘‘Draconian’: Government introduces new pandemic laws into Parliament’ The Age (26 October 2021)

Rebecca ARMITAGE, ‘Joe Rogan, Ted Cruz and Fox News hosts want to 'save Australia' from its coronavirus strategies’' ABC News (23 October 2021)

Jacob GERSHMAN, ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Are Surviving Nearly All Court Challenges’ Wall Street Journal (22 October 2021)

Denis STAUNTON, ‘Johnson rules out face masks as UK’s daily Covid cases rise above 50,000’ Irish Times (21 October 2021)

Pjotr SAUER, ‘Moscow announces one-week lockdown as Russia Covid deaths rise’ The Guardian (21 October 2021)

Paolo GERBAUDO, ‘The populist right is regretting its encouragement of Covid conspiracists’ The Guardian (20 October 2021)

Yerica LAI, ‘Jokowi enters seventh year on stronger political footing’ Jakarta Post (19 October 2021)

Ian SAMPLE, ‘UK Covid cases near 50,000 in one day as No 10 warns of ‘challenging’ winter’ The Guardian (19 October 2021)

Van BADHAM, ‘No, Australia is Not Actually an Evil Dictatorship’ New York Times (14 October 2021)

Erwin RENALDI, ‘How Australia's Muslim community is battling COVID vaccine myths’ ABC News (13 October 2021)

Tom PHILLIPS, ‘Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment’ The Guardian (3 October 2021)

Chip LE GRAND, ‘Freedom, interrupted: Will the liberties we lost to COVID be regained?’ Sydney Morning Herald (2 October 2021)

Rajiv J. SHAH, ‘The COVID Charter: A New Development Model for a World in Crisis’ (September/October 2021)

Kate GALBRAITH & Dan KOPF, ‘How COVID vaccination rates stack up against Newsom recall votes in each California count’ San Francisco Chronicle (1 October 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Vic. Health Minister Martin Foley's vaccination gaffe fuels misinformation around the globe’ ABC-RMIT Corona Check (1 October 2021)

NBC NEWS, ‘YouTube cracks down on anti-vaccine videos, bans major accounts’ (30 September 2021)

VANCOUVER ISLAND FREE DAILY, ‘Unvaccinated Conservative MPs should ‘stay home’ from Parliament: Bloc leader’ (29 September 2021)

Georgia WILKINS, ‘PM has only himself to blame as public wakes up to his love of secrets’ Crikey (28 October 2021)

Jamelle WELLS, ‘Judge in mandatory jab challenge cases says he's been 'bombarded' by anti-vaxxers’ ABC News (28 September 2021)

PLUS 61J MEDIA, ‘EXCLUSIVE: The antisemitic underbelly of Australia’s anti-lockdown groups’ (28 September 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Dutch protesters march through The Hague against ‘corona pass’’ (25 September 2021)

Doug BANDOW, ‘Hong Kong’s National Security Promises Were All Hollow’ Foreign Policy (23 September 2021)

Damien COVE, ‘Has Covid Cost Australia its Love for Freedom?’ The New York Times (23 September 2021)

Bernard KEANE, ‘Were the Melbourne protesters lawless unionists or brave freedom fighters?’ Crikey (22 September 2021)

Patricia NILSSON, ‘Pandemic spurs trade unions to harness power of social media’ Financial Times (22 September 2021)

Josh ROOSE, ‘‘It’s almost like grooming’: how anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and the far-right came together over COVID’ The Conversation (21 September 2021)

Sameea KAMAL, ‘How big a factor was COVID in the California recall?’ Cal Matters (17 September 2021)

Richard YOUNGS, ‘It’s not all about populism: grassroots democracy is thriving across Europe’ The Guardian (16 September 2021)

Tom Gerald DALY, ‘Australia needs a democracy fix’ Pursuit (15 September 2021)

Jennifer MEDINA, ‘The pandemic is a key issue in the recall, and that bodes well for Newsom’ The New York Times (15 September 2021)

Matt STILES, ‘California recall election results closely linked to COVID-19 vaccination rates’ Los Angeles Times (15 September 2021)

Hans NICHOLS, ‘Scoop: Biden to host Boris Johnson at the White House next week’ AXIOS (15 September 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Philippines to hold pilot test of localised lockdowns in capital region’ (14 September 2021)

Leyland CECCO, ‘Trudeau energized by anti-vaccine protests in Canada election few wanted’ The Guardian (14 September 2021)

Monique BEALS, ‘Greece rolls out new restrictions on unvaccinated’ The Hill (14 September 2021)

Ian VERRENDER, ‘Have climate deniers fuelled the rise of COVID anti-vaxxers?’ ABC News (13 September 2021)

Karan DEEP SINGH, ‘As India’s Lethal Covid Wave Neared, Politics Overrode Science’ The New York Times (14 September 2021)

EDITORIAL BOARD, ANU, ‘No escape from COVID-19 at Japan’s ballot box’ Australia National University (13 September 2021)

Yves TIBERGHIEN, ‘Delta upends the East Asia COVID-19 model’ East Asia Forum (13 September 2021)

Remi ADEKOYA, ‘Why are coups making a comeback in Africa?’ CNN (13 September 2021)

Jordan S. RUBIN, ‘The Supreme Court Vaccine Case: Jacobson v. Mass.: Explained’ Bloomberg Law (13 September 2021)

Christopher SHERMAN, ‘Nicaragua gov’t squeezes doctors, talk of ‘health terrorism’’ AP News (13 September 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Anti COVID vaccine protesters clash with police in Greece’ (12 September 2021)

Amy REMEIKIS, ‘On top of the Covid crisis, there’s also the matter of a looming federal election’ The Guardian (11 September 2021)

Paul O’SHEA & Sebastian MASLOW, ‘Replacing Suga as prime minister will do little to resolve Japan’s political crisis’ The Guardian (11 September 2021)

Samantha MAIDEN, ‘[Former Prime Minister of Australia] Tony Abbott fined $500 after being photographed in Manly without a mask’ News.com.au (11 September 2021)

Benedict BROOK, ‘Three words that sent Dr Kerry Chant global’ News.com.au (11 September 2021)

Cam WILSON, ‘Kerry Chant’s ‘new world order’: how a throwaway comment went viral with conspiracy theorists’ Crikey (10 September 2021)

Waleed ALY, ‘Police accessing QR data violates our emergency pact’ The Age (10 September 2021)

EURONEWS, ‘Police say 'calm' restored after five consecutive nights of clashes near Paris’ (9 September 2021)

Gordon BROWN, ‘The west has more vaccine doses than it needs – and no excuse not to share them’ The Guardian (9 September 2021)

Oliver STUENKEL, ‘Stalemate: The Main Outcome of Bolsonaro’s Day of Protest’ Americas Quarterly (8 September 2021)

Ciara SECCOMBE, ‘Selfie surveillance a tipping point for police powers’ The Age (8 September 2021)

Yodi MAHENDRADHATA, ‘Indonesia’s long transition to COVID-19 endemicity’ East Asia Forum (8 September 2021)

Alex VASQUEZ & Nicolle YAPUR, ‘Venezuela’s Government, Opposition Find Common Ground on Covid’ Bloomberg (7 September 2021)

Chris BARRETT, ‘Phnom Penh turned to China, now it’s the ‘world’s most vaccinated capital city’’ Sydney Morning Herald (7 September 2021)

Flávia MILHORANCE & Ernesto LONDOÑO, 'Pro-Bolsonaro Rallies May Be Prelude to Power Grab, Critics Say' New York Times (7 September 2021)

Joseph E. STIGLITZ, ‘Covid-19 and human freedom’ Project Syndicate (7 September 2021)

Mireya SOLIS, ‘Suga, the second Japanese prime minister felled by COVID-19’ Channel News Asia (7 September 2021)

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, ‘Brazil's Bolsonaro Rallies His Followers Against The Courts In A Major Demonstration' (7 September 2021)

Nyasha CHINGONO, ‘‘No one may be compelled’: Zimbabwe unions go to court over Covid jabs’ The Guardian (7 September 2021)

Shahar HAMEIRI & Tom CHODOR, ‘What’s the point of Australia?’ Unherd (7 September 2021)

Huizhong WU, ‘Dogged by politics, Taiwan finally receives its first Pfizer vaccine’ Sydney Morning Herald’ Sydney Morning Herald (6 September 2021)

PHILSTAR, ‘Robredo: Duterte more focused on politics than COVID-19 response’ (6 September 2021)

John HARRIS, ‘Boris Johnson’s incompetence is pulling the UK apart’ The Guardian (5 September 2021)

Tom PHILIPS, ‘Fears of violence on Brazil’s streets as millions rally to back Bolsonaro’ The Guardian (5 September 2021)

FIRST POST, ‘Narendra Modi pips 13 global leaders to have highest approval rating in global survey’ (5 September 2021)

Sebastian MASLOW & Paul O'SHEA, ‘Japan: why PM Suga unexpectedly stepped down – and what happens next’ The Conversation (4 September 2021)

Conor FRIEDERSDORF, ‘Australia Traded Away Too Much Liberty’ The Atlantic (2 September 2021)

Chamila LIYANAGE, ‘How Authoritarian Movements Are Exploiting COVID Restriction Protest’ Rantt Media (2 September 2021)

Dan MILMO, ‘Reddit communities ‘go dark’ in protest over Covid misinformation’ The Guardian (2 September 2021)

Hager ALI & Ameni MEHREZ, 'Tunisia’s democracy is under challenge, but not under threat' The Loop (1 September 2021)

Tim SOUTPHOMMASANE & Marc STEARS, ‘Government responses to COVID-19 are undermining our democratic commitments — why have progressives remained silent?’ ABC (1 September 2021)

Ausma BERNOT, Alexander TRAUTH-GOIK & Sue TRAVASKES, ‘China's 'surveillance creep': How big data COVID monitoring could be used to control people post-pandemic’ ABC (1 September 2021)

Takuya MIZOROGI, ‘Japanese disapproval of Suga's COVID response hits near-record high’ Nikkei Asia (30 August 2021)

Tess McCLURE, ‘Even as New Zealand battles Covid, trust in government bucks global trend’ The Guardian (30 August 2021)

CBC, 'Anger, fear over pandemic election is growing among Canadians, poll suggests' (30 August 2021)

Mario CANSECO, 'Liberal support among Canadian voters drops to 33%: poll' BIV (30 August 2021)

Natasha O'NEILL, ''Get out and vote': low turnout during a global health crisis could be a problem' The Pointer (29 August 2021)

CBC, 'Brazilian president says he'll be re-elected, arrested or killed' (28 August 2021)

Fabienne PETER, ‘Can authoritarianism ever be justified?’ New Statesman (Asia) (27 August 2021)

Cam WILSON, ‘Tick and flick: Coalition and Labor give police even more hacking powers’ Crikey (27 August 2021)

Catherine GRAUE, ‘Claims Fiji is 'transitioning to a police state' after doctor questioned by police over alleged COVID-19 misinformation’ ABC News (27 August 2021)

BYLINE TIMES, ‘Five Conspiracy Theories Infecting Anti-Lockdown Groups’ (27 August 2021)

Peter LANDERS, Mike CHERNEY, and Jon EMNONT, ‘Covid-19 Delta Infections Trigger Political Side Effects in Asia’ Wall Street Journal (26 August 2021)

Kamal JOSHI, ‘COVID: In Key Milestone, India Vaccinates 50% Of Eligible Population With Atleast 1 Dose’ Republic World (26 August 2021)

Lavendar BAJ, ‘The Government Just Approved A Bunch Of New Cyber-Spying Powers For Police’ Gizmodo (26 August 2021)

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ‘Hong Kong to scour old films for subversive themes under new censorship law’ (25 August 2021)

Dennis MULLER, ‘Craig Kelly’s move to Palmer’s United Australia Party shows the need for urgent electoral law reform’ The Conversation (25 August 2021)

Libby BROOKS & Severin CARRELL, ‘Scottish Covid inquiry plans spur calls for other parts of UK to follow suit’ The Guardian (25 August 2021)

Gary BANKS, ‘Good policy process a casualty of the war on COVID-19’ Financial Review (24 August 2021)

Rosanna LATIFF, ‘Malaysia's new PM invites opposition to join COVID-19 effort’ Reuters (22 August 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Melbourne, smaller demonstrations in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth’ (22 August 2021)

Ali SWENSON & Terrence FRASER, ‘FACT FOCUS: COVID-19 shots not forced on kids in Australia’ AP News (21 August 2021)

Pranav DIXIT, ‘Big Tech Thought It Had A Billion Users In The Bag. Now It Might Be Forced To Make Hard Choices To Get Them’ Buzzfeed News (20 August 2021)

THE BRAZILIAN REPORT, ‘Bolsonaro impeachment now supported by 58 percent of Brazilians’ (19 August 2021)

Nadeem BADSHAH, ‘Protesters claim to ‘seize’ Edinburgh Castle citing Magna Carta’ The Guardian (18 August 2021)

Adam COOPER, ‘Court rejects challenge by anti-lockdown protester’ The Age [Australia] (17 August 2021)

Nick McKENZIE & Joel TOZER, ‘Political ambitions and anti-lockdown protests: How neo-Nazis seek to spread influence’ The Age (17 August 2021)

Alessio PERRONE & Darren LOUCAIDES, ‘Spreading like a virus’: inside the EU’s struggle to debunk Covid lies’ The Guardian (16 August 2021)

THE WIRE, ‘Support for Modi as 'Best Choice for PM' Falls from 66% to 24% in a Year, India Today Poll Finds’ (16 August 2021)

P PREM KUMAR, ‘Muhyiddin quits as Malaysia PM after plea for bipartisanship fails’ Nikkei Asia (16 August 2021)

Melissa CUNNINGHAM, Aisha DOW & Sumeyya ILANBEY, ‘Experts back tough new restrictions as only way to avoid disastrous outbreak’ The Age (16 August 2021)

Sumeyya ILANBEY, ‘Victorian upper house to meet in defiance of health advice’ The Age (16 August 2021)

Menaka GURUSWAMY, ‘75 years ago, Parliament shaped and reassured a nation in turmoil’ Indian Express (14 August 2021)

Jason BURKE, ‘‘An economic calamity’: Africa faces years of post-Covid instability’ The Guardian (13 August 2021)

Lorena COTZA, ‘A COVID-19 Loan for COVID-Denying Turkmenistan’ The Diplomat (12 August 2021)

Shahar HAMEIRI, ‘COVID-19 and the revolt of the elites’ ABC News (12 August 2021)

Avani DIAS, ‘Conspiracies about Australia’s COVID lockdowns are going viral on TikTok’ ABC News (12 August 2021)

John POWER, ‘In Asia’s Covid-19 reopening debate, are scientists having too much say?’ South-China Morning Post (9 August 2021)

Rick NOACK & Stefano PITRELLI, ‘Despite weeks of protests, France implements health pass at cafes and train stations with little drama’ The Washington Post (9 August 2021)

BLOOMBERG, ‘China’s Covid-19 strategy risks leaving it isolated for years’ Japan Times (9 August 2021)

THE NEW DAILY, ‘Popularity of PM Scott Morrison plunges again as ALP retains 53-47 lead in Newspoll’ (8 August 2021)

THE JAPAN TIMES, ‘Myanmar leaders use pandemic as a weapon’ (8 August 2021)

Katharine MURPHY, ‘As some Coalition MPs court constituents who think the pandemic is a beat-up, Scott Morrison remains elastic’ The Guardian (7 August 2021)

Anne TWOMEY, ‘Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet’ The Conversation (6 August 2021)

SBS NEWS, ‘Experts say anti-lockdown protests reveal a ‘much deeper-seated problem’ in Australia right now’ (28 July 2021)

Emma POLLARD, ‘Experts unpack the anti-lockdown COVID-19 protests that hit Australia's capital cities last weekend

Tommy WALKER, ‘Anti-Government Protests Persist in Thailand Despite Record COVID-19 Cases’ Voa News (26 July 2021)

Peter FITZSIMONS, ‘If Sky can put Jones’ dangerous stuff to air, what can’t you put on Australian TV?’ Sydney Morning Herald (25 July 2021)

Valerie JULLIAND, ‘Lack of global solidarity’, slow vaccination rates put Indonesia in COVID glare’ UN News (24 July 2021)

Annika SMETHURST, ‘Political war chests crushed by COVID as regular donors keep their money in the bank’ The Age (23 July 2021)

Bernard KEANE, ‘Have we ever been led by a worse prime minister than this smirking vacuum?’ Crikey [Australia] (22 July 2021)

Morry BAILES, ‘Democracy must not become a pandemic victim’ InDaily (22 July 2021)

Aanya MISHRA and Pranaya STHAPIT, Covid-19 Violence Dashboard Shows Nepal’s “Shadow” Pandemic’ The Asia Foundation (21 July 2021)

Bridget WELSH, ‘A different Malaysia may emerge from the ashes of its COVID-19 crisis’ Channel News Asia (21 July 2021)

Alifah ZAINUDDIN, ‘As Delta Variant Rages in Southeast Asia, Health Workers Warned Not to Speak Out’ The Diplomat (20 July 2021)

John REED, ‘Myanmar’s Covid deluge fuelled by distrust of military junta’ Financial Times (20 July 2021)

Shaun RATCLIFF, Andrea CARSON & Leah RUPPANNER, ‘Poor levels of trust in media and politicians fuels vaccine uncertainty’ The Age (19 July 2021)

Chris BARRETT, ‘In charge of 50 million people, this leader charts own course beyond COVID-19’ The Age (19 July 2021)

MIRAGE, ‘COVID-19 response utilized to erode democracy in some countries’ (19 July 2021)

EDITORIAL BOARD, ANU, ‘Muhyiddin keeps Malaysian politics in lockdown’ East Asia Forum (19 July 2021)

Bridget WELSH, ‘Pandemic failures will transform Malaysian politics’ East Asia Forum (18 July 2021)

Saurabh SINHA & Kammila NAIDOO, ‘Inequality has caught up with South Africa’ Daily Maverick (18 July 2021)

AL-JAZEERA, ‘Cuba president rejects coverage of unrest as a ‘lie’’ (17 July 2021)

Emily MORRIS, ‘Cuba’s mass protests are driven by the misery of COVID and economic sanctions’ The Conversation (16 July 2021)

Katell ABIVEN, ‘Cuban government blames Twitter for unrest’ Yahoo! News (16 July 2021)

Pia PETERSON & Otillia STEADMAN, ‘This Is What The Historic Anti-Government Protests In Cuba Look Like’ BuzzFeed News (15 July 2021)

Annette DITTERT, ‘The politics of lies: Boris Johnson and the erosion of the rule of law’ New Statesman (15 July 2021)

Marianne THAMM, ‘#CleanupSA — picking ourselves up: South Africans show solidarity and community spirit in aftermath of public violence’ Daily Maverick (15 July 2021)

Carolyn BONQUIN, ‘Where is the Duterte administration in dealing with the global health crisis?’ CNN Philippines (13 July 2021)

Bess LEVIN, ‘Hysterical Tennessee Republicans Fire Vaccine Chief for Encouraging Vaccines’ Vanity Fair (13 July 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Cuba's largest anti-government protest in decades sees demands for 'freedom', COVID vaccine’ (12 July 2021)

Anuradha RAGHU, ‘How the Pandemic Is Keeping Malaysia’s Politics Messy’ Washington Post (13 July 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Bangkok goes under fresh COVID-19 restrictions as Alpha and Delta variants surge’ (13 July 2021)

Greg JERICHO, ‘The Morrison government has fallen short in all areas of the Covid vaccine rollout’ The Guardian (13 July 2021)

Robert ZOELLICK, ‘Liberal democracies are running out of time to save the rest of the planet from covid’ Washington Post (9 July 2021)

Sebastian STRANGIO, ‘COVID-19 Tightens Its Grip on Southeast Asia’ The Diplomat (9 July 2021)

Ary HERMAWAN, ‘COVID-19 tragedy exposes how broken Indonesian politics is’ The Jakarta Post (7 July 2021)

Sebastian STRANGIO, ‘Malaysian PM Backtracks and Agrees to Convene Parliament’ The Diplomat (6 July 2021)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘Malaysia’s democracy gets a boost from an unlikely quarter’ (3 July 2021)

Francis FUKUYAMA and Luis Felipe LOPEZ-CALVA, ‘Pandemics and political performance’ Bangkok Post (1 July 2021)

Nicola SMITH, ‘Kim Jong-un admits to first 'major crisis' in North Korea's Covid battle’ The Telegraph (30 June 2021)

Bojan PANCEVSKI, ‘Why the Covid-19 Pandemic Weakened Far-Right Groups in Europe’ The Wall Street Journal (30 June 2021)

Andrew STUTTAFORD, ‘Dealing with the Pandemic — An Authoritarian Precedent’ National Review (25 June 2021)

MIRAGE NEWS, ‘Survey in Haiti shows democratic attitudes can persist in countries with weak governance, even during pandemic’ (29 June 2021)

Joshua KURLANTZICK, ‘Southeast Asia’s Democratic Woes Accelerate’ Japan Times (28 June 2021)

Bhopinder SINGH, ‘Two democracies and the pandemic’ The Citizen (28 June 2021)

Kelly HO, ‘Hong Kong police ban annual July 1 democracy demo, citing Covid-19’ Hong Kong Free Press (28 June 2021)

Azmil TAYEB, ‘Political infighting hampers Malaysia’s COVID-19 response’ Channel News Asia (25 June 2021)

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS, ‘Thailand’s pro-democracy protesters rally despite Covid-19 warnings from authorities’ South-China Morning Sea (24 June 2021)

Tang YUNG-YU, ‘Public service amid a pandemic in Taiwan’ Taipei Times (23 June 2021)

Rosa PAVANELLI, ‘Defending and re-empowering public services is also defending democracy (Cambodia)’ The Phnom Penh Post (23 June 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Coronavirus: ‘vaccine or jail’, Philippines’ Duterte threatens’ South-China Morning Post (22 June 2021)

Ei Sun OH, ‘Malaysia PM Muhyiddin’s hand could be forced as pressure mounts for COVID-19 accountability’ Channel News Asia (21 June 2021)

Rebecca RATCLIFFE, ‘Myanmar reports highest Covid numbers since coup as concerns over health system grow’ The Guardian (21 June 2021)

Brendan PIERSON, ‘How COVID and shadow docket exploded SCOTUS’ scope of religious freedom’ Reuters (17 June 2021)

BK CHATURVEDI, ‘Subjugation of constitutional institutions by Modi govt does not bode well for our democracy’ National Herald (16 June 2021)

James CHIN, ‘Will Malaysian king take PM Muhyiddin’s government to task for huge COVID-19 mess?’ Channel News Asia (15 June 2021)

Vihang JUMLE and Vignesh KARTHIK, ‘Covid-19: How compliant media erodes democracy’ The Leaflet (12 June 2021)

Jeremy CUSHING, ‘Is the UK sleepwalking into authoritarian rule’ The Guardian (12 June 2021)

Prakash KARAT, ‘An authoritarian regime is assaulting federal principle of Constitution and trampling rights of states’ National Herald (10 June 2021)

Akhilesh PILLALAMARRI, ‘Why India’s Democracy is Not Dying’ The Diplomat (14 June 2021)

ANU EDITORIAL BOARD, ‘Global governance reform needs leadership from the developing world’ East Asia Forum (14 June 2021)

Nirajan THAPALIYA, ‘Nepal’s Leaders Must Put Aside Differences Amid COVID-19 Crisis’ The Diplomat (12 June 2021)

Vihang JUMLE & and Vignesh KARTHIK KR, ‘Covid-19: How Compliant Media Erodes Democracy’ The Leaflet (12 June 2021)

Bill EMMOTT, ‘Japan's rocky COVID-19 roller-coaster ride a blow to its reputation’ The Mainichi (13 June 2021)

Akshai VIKRAM, ‘Indian Democracy Is On The Ropes. The US Must Act’ Defence One (12 June 2021)

Edward WEBSTER, ‘Rethinking capitalism amid ravages of Covid-19’ Asia Times (5 June 2021)

Josh BUTLER, ‘Humanitarian disaster’: Why Australia must help fight Indonesia’s spiralling COVID catastrophe’ The New Daily (5 June 2021)

Rob JENKINS, ‘A Pending Decision Pits Peace vs. Democracy in the Philippines’ Just Security (3 June 2021)

P Prem KUMAR, ‘Malaysia locks down as vicious COVID wave fogs election timing’ Nikkei (31 May 2021)

Mohamed ZEESHAN, ‘Prioritising image management over planning has led to India's Covid catastrophe’ The Telegraph (27 May 2021)

Nicola ABE, ‘Argentina’s authoritarian corona regime’ Der Spiegel (27 May 2021)

BLOOMBERG, ‘Hong Kong Bans Tiananmen Square vigil for second year, citing virus’ (27 May 2021) – I may have missed the author here, I couldn’t see the full article for some reason

Pierre PEYTIER, ‘The impact of COVID-19 on European democracy‘, The Parliament (26 May 2021)

Pierre PEYTIER, ‘Democratic challenges have accelerated during COVID pandemic’ Euro News (24 May 2021)

EDITORIAL BOARD, ‘Rise of digital repression?’ The Jakarta Post (22 May 2021)

Chris BARRETT, ‘Malaysia suspended its democracy to combat the virus, now it’s even worse’ Sydney Morning Herald (21 May 2021)

Robert REICH, ‘Strongmen are losing the fight against COVID-19’ Baltimore Sun (20 May 2021)

Sebastian STRANGIO, ‘Pandemic Year Saw Sharp Decline in Southeast Asian Press Freedoms’ The Diplomat (20 April 2021)

Francesca REGALADO, ‘India's top diplomat seeks 'decentralized globalization' after COVID’ Nikkei Asia (20 May 2021)

Wayne SOON & Honghong TINN, ‘Saving Taiwan’s COVID-19 Success Story’ The Diplomat (19 May 2021)

Barry SAUMAN and Yan HAIRONG, ‘Liberal democracy no guarantee for ethnic minorities amid pandemic’ Global Times (19 May 2021)

Michael MCDOWELL, ‘Time to reopen our democracy’ The Irish Times (19 May 2021)

Barry SAUTMAN & Yan HAIRONG, ‘Liberal democracy no guarantee for ethnic minorities amid pandemic’ Global Times (19 May 2021)

Georgia WILKINS, ‘A sham? Morrison’s secretive national cabinet comes under legal blowtorch’ Crikey (18 May 2021)

Adam CREIGHTON, ‘West in decline: half-competent authoritarianism’ The Australian (18 May 2021)

David MOSCROP, ‘The pandemic has highlighted a fundamental flaw in Canada’s democracy’ Washington Post (18 May 2021)

 Yang SHENG & Wang QI, ‘Taiwan DPP authorities ‘use epidemic to serve political goal,’ cause vaccine predicament’ Global Times (18 May 2021)

Adam CREIGHTON, ‘West in decline: half-competent authoritarianism’ The Australian (18 May 2021)

Patricia A. O’'BRIEN, ‘Despite a veneer of democracy, Samoa is sliding into autocracy’ The Conversation (17 May 2021)

Mirage News ‘COVID-19 pandemic highlights urgent need for Australian human rights charter’ (17 May 2021)

Pallabi MUNSI and Charu Sudan KASTURI, ‘The Israel model: COVID and democracy’ OZY (12 May 2021)

Council of Europe, ‘Democracy is in distress, finds the Council of Europe Secretary General’s annual report for 2021’ Council of Europe (11 May 2021)

Amir NAJIB, ‘Global Poll: Despite Grim Views Of Democracies’ Covid Response, People Around The World Want More Democracy’ Irish Tech News (11 May 2021)

John AUTHERS, ‘Covid Pitted Life Against Liberty and Vanquished Both’ Bloomberg (9 May 2021)

Niall FERGUSON, ‘The Next Global Disaster Is on Its Way, and We Aren’t Ready’ Bloomberg (9 May 2021)

Kevin SHEIVES and Ryan ARICK, ‘Authoritarian states are using COVID vaccines to subvert democracy’ Nikkei Asia (8 May 2021)

Jiji KYODO, ‘Bill to amend law on vote to revise Japan’s Constitution is likely’ The Japan Times (6 May 2021)

CJ WERLEMAN, ‘Catastrophe saved America from Fascism; Could it to the same for India’ Byline Times (6 May 2021)

Mthandazo NGWENYA, ‘Do Covid-19 restrictions threaten democracy itself?’ Business Day (5 May 2021)

Jim NASH, ‘The East plays a COVID shell game with biometric surveillance’ Biometric Update (5 May 2021)

Mubashar HASAN, ‘Authoritarians seek advantage in India’s COVID crisis’ The Interpreter (5 May 2021)

David ADESNIK, ‘Authoritarian countries will try to use coronavirus vaccines as an internal cudgel’ Washington Post (5 May 2021)

Marine STRAUSS, ‘Over half of people in democracies feel freedoms overly curbed in COVID crisis -survey’ Reuters (5 May 2021)

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, ‘Digital contact tracing apps help slow COVID-19. Here's how to increase trust.’ (5 May 2021)

Walden BELLO, ‘Fascism’s global spread is real – as real as the spread of covid-19’ Foreign Policy in Focus (5 May 2021)

Ishan THAROOR, ‘Right-wing nationalists failed during the pandemic. But they weren’t the only ones.’ The Washington Post (3 May 2021)

Phorn BOPHA, ‘Mounting desperation in Cambodia amid COVID lockdown’ Al Jazeera (2 May 2021)

Ramachandra GUHA, ‘The unmaking of India’ Financial Times (30 April 2021)

Laurie MacFARLANE, ‘Covid has forced a neoliberal retreat. But state intervention isn’t always progressive’ The Guardian (29 April 2021)

SCROLL.IN, ‘‘EC responsible for second wave of Covid, should be booked for murder probably’: Madras HC’ (27 April 2021)

Elizabeth SHIM, Japan's ruling party defeated in parliamentary by-elections amid COVID-19 surge’ UPI (26 April 2021)

Alex BLAIR, ‘Covid 19 coronavirus: Democracy in India under microscope as hundreds of anti-government accounts censored’ NZ Herald (27 April 2021)

Yascha MOUNK, ‘How Populism Has Proven Lethal in This Pandemic’ Council of Foreign Relations (26 April 2021)

Archana CHAUDHARY, Sudhi RANJAN SEN and Bibhudatta PRADHAN, ‘World’s biggest covid-19 crisis threatens Modi’s grip on India’ Bloomberg (25 April 2021)

James OATEN, ‘India's second wave of COVID-19 is far more aggressive and deadly than the first. Here's what went wrong’ ABC News (25 April 2021)

Pranav DIXIT, ‘Twitter Is Blocking Tweets That Criticize How The Indian Government Has Handled The Pandemic’ Buzzfeed (24 April 2021)

Lyla BAVADAM, ‘Sachin Sawant: “Democracy under threat”’ Frontline (India) (7 May 2021, print edition)

REUTERS, ‘Protesters gather as Germany debates COVID-19 lockdown law’ Discourse on Development (21 April 2021)

Eszter ZALAN, ‘Study: EU 'largely lost leadership' on media freedom’ EU Observer (21 April 2021)

Erin CUNNINGHAM, “Dramatic deterioration’ in information access due to pandemic, press freedom watchdog says’ The Washington Post (20 April 2021)

Seren Selvin KORKMAZ, ‘Erdogan is feeling the heat’ International Politics and Society (20 April 2021)

Mia SPEIER, ‘COVID-19 and the Threat to Press Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe’ Council on Foreign Relations (20 April 2021)

Sebastian STRANGIO, ‘Pandemic year saw sharp decline in Southeast Asian press freedoms’ Diplomat (20 April 2021)

Marissa SMITH, Bulgan BATDORJ and Julian DIERKES, ‘Grappling With Parliament Limiting His Powers, Mongolian President Moves to Dissolve Ruling Party’ The Diplomat (20 April 2021)

Charles SCANLON, ‘Xi Kinping: Master of strategy or deluded autocrat’ Institute for War & Peace Reporting (20 April 2021)

Gráinne NÍ AODHA, ‘Irish Council for Civil Liberties calls for mandatory hotel quarantine to be suspended’ Journal.ie (19 April 2021)

Abhijit MAJUMDER, ‘Too much democracy and identity politics are ruining India’s fight against COVID-19’ First Post (17 April 2021)

Ted PICCONE, ‘COVID-19 has worsened a shaky rule of law environment’ Brookings Institute (15 April 2021)

Ahmed MORSY, ‘Human rights vs coronavirus in Egypt’ Ahram Online (13 April 2021)

Frank SOLOMON, ‘The price of freedom in a COVID-19 world’ Jamaican Observer (13 April 2021)

Luke COOPER, ‘Vaccinate the Billions or Lose the Battle for Democracy’ Carnegie Europe (13 April 2021)

JAPAN TIMES, ‘60% dissatisfied with Japan's COVID-19 vaccine rollout, poll shows’ (13 April 2021)

Zsombor PETER, ‘Myanmar's Efforts to Control COVID-19 Crumble Since February Coup, Aid Groups Say’ Voice of America (12 April 2021)

David KLEIN, ‘Amnesty International: COVID Perpetuated Human Rights Abuses in 2020’ Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (10 April 2021)

Maria ALVAREZ, ‘Are Covid passports a threat to liberty? It depends on how you define freedom’ The Guardian (10 April 2021)

Warren STROBEL and Dustin VOLZ, ‘Covid-19 Fuels Inequality, Political Divide, Authoritarianism World-Wide, U.S. Intelligence Analysts Say’ The Wall Street Journal (8 April 2021)

Timothy Garton ASH, ‘Under cover of Covid, Poland is stifling free media – and all Europe should be worried’ The Guardian (8 April 2021)

Pedro FONSECA, ‘'A biological Fukushima': Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to pass worst of U.S. wave’ Reuters (7 April 2021)

Anjana PASRICHA, ‘Hit with Second Wave, India Becomes COVID-19 Hotspot’ Voa (7 April 2021)

John POWER, ‘Across Asia-Pacific and Europe, Covid-19 has thrown up another risk – an addiction to lockdowns’ The South-China Morning Post (3 April 2021)

EDITORIAL BOARD, Brazil’s Bolsonaro failed to stop Covid-19. Now he may be targeting democracy’ Washington Post (3 April 2021)

Oran DOYLE & David KENNY, ‘Opinion: 'In legal terms, there is no prohibition on attending or organising religious services'’ The Journal (1 April 2021)

Joshua KURLANTZICK, ‘COVID-19 hits the biggest democracies the hardest. But why?’ Japan Times (3 April 2021)

Darren LOUCAIDES, Alessio PERRONE and Josef HOINBURGER, ‘How Germany became ground zero for the COVID infodemic’ Open Democracy (31 March 2021)

Joshua KURLANTZICK, ‘In Asia’s 3 Biggest Democracies, COVID-19 has Entrenched Inequality and Democratic Regression’ The Diplomat (31 March 2021)

EDITORIAL, ‘It’s time to consider a patent reprieve for COVID vaccines’ Nature (30 March 2021)

Jamie GRIERSON, ‘Ever-changing Covid rules on protest set up conflict with the police’ The Guardian (30 March 2021)

Samir SHUKLA, ‘Covid 2.0: Threat of an administrative cytokine storm building up in India’ The Times of India (30 March 2021)

Jerome GROOPMAN, ‘The Politics of Stopping Pandemics’ The New Yorker (29 March 2021)

Cristian GHERASIM, ‘Covid-19: Democracy and rule of law under pressure in EU’ EU Observer (29 March 2021)

NEWSDESK, ‘India tragically moving towards authoritarianism: Freedom House report’ (29 March 2021)

Ross CLARK, ‘Vaccines were supposed to liberate us, not expand the surveillance state’ The Telegraph (28 March 2021)

Raed OMARI, ‘Jordan considers state takeover of private hospitals to cope with COVID-19 surge’ Arab News (28 March 2021)

Ellie ABEN, ‘Filipinos voice frustration over Duterte’s handling of COVID-19 crisis’ Arab News (28 March 2021)

Thomas J BOLLYKY, ‘Democracies Keep Vaccines for Themselves’ The Atlantic (27 March 2021)

Michael McGOWAN, ‘Where 'freedom' meets the far right: the hate messages infiltrating Australian anti-lockdown protests’ The Guardian (26 March 2021)

Tham JIA VERN & Khairil AHMAD, ‘Malaysia’s fake news ordinance: Rigid rules for a nuanced problem’ Malay Mail (25 March 2021)

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, ‘Argentina: Abusive Covid-19 Measures in Northern Province’ (26 March 2021)

Ross CLARK, ‘Britain's creeping authoritarianism no longer bears any relation to the risk of Covid’ The Telegraph (23 March 2021)

Mona SHTAYA, ‘The pandemic is being used to normalise government surveillance – Palestinians already know how dangerous this is’ Independent (23 March 2021)

MIRAGE, ‘Women’s absence from COVID-19 task forces will perpetuate gender divide, says UNDP, UN Women’ (23 March 2021)

Nathan JEFFAY, ‘Socially distanced democracy: Israel prepares to vote in a pandemic’ The Times of Israel (23 March 2021)

Michelle NORRIS, ’Opinion: Thanks to covid-19, the age of biometric surveillance is here’ Washington Post (23 March 2021)

Bernd DEBUSMANN, ‘Democracy is under siege as autocrats advance amid COVID-19’ News Decorder (22 March 2021)

Conor GALLAGHER, ‘‘Safe’ protesting during Covid-19: Lifeblood of democracy?’ The Irish Times (19 March 2021)

Georgia WILKINS, ‘One year on, COVID commission discussions are still held in secret. Why?’ Crikey (Australia) (18 March 2021)

Vivian BERCOVICI, ‘Israel post-COVID-19: Haredi integration or end of liberal democracy?’ The Jerusalem Post (18 March 2021)

Jorge RUIZ, ‘A Last Stand for Freedom: Global Democracy and COVID-19’ Harvard Political Review (15 March 2021)

Bill BOWTELL, ‘Pandemic secrecy pushed Australians towards their premiers’ The Age (20 March 2021)

Michael SMITH, ‘Hong Kong uses ambush-style lockdowns to combat fifth wave’ Australian Financial Review (18 March 2021)

Abhijnan REJ, ‘India Contemplates New Freedom and Democracy Indices After ‘Hypocrisy’ Cries’ The Diplomat (17 March 2021)

Jorge RUIZ, ‘A Last Stand for Freedom: Global Democracy and COVID-19’ Harvard Political Review (15 March 2021)

BLOOMBERG, ‘John Magufuli, Tanzanian Leader Who Scoffed at Covid, Dies at 61’ (17 March 2021)

Catherine NEILAN, ‘Protest is 'cornerstone of democracy' but can't happen during Covid, says Priti Patel’ The Telegraph (15 March 2021)

MyGC, ‘Federal government’s popularity plummets in latest Newspoll’ (15 March 2021)

Aie BALAGTAS SEE, ‘Rodrigo Duterte Is Using One of the World's Longest COVID-19 Lockdowns to Strengthen His Grip on the Philippines’ Time (15 March 2021)

CHANNEL NEWS ASIA, ‘South Korean province orders COVID-19 testing for foreigners, sparking complaints of xenophobia’ (15 March 2021)

Stefan KALBERER, ‘V-Dem report 2021: Global wave of autocratization accelerates’ Democracy Without Borders (14 March 2021)

Tom WALL, ‘Police in England 'using Covid lockdown rules to halt any protests'’ The Guardian (14 March 2021)

Stephen ROACH, ‘Internet and democracy’ Daily Express (14 March 2021)

Rhys MARTIN, ‘Are COVID-19 measures being used to stifle democracy in Africa?’ Global Risk Insights (12 March 2021)

Gyan PATHAK, ‘Yet another global report affirming unravelling of democracy under Modi govt a matter of grave concern’ National Herald India (12 March 2021)

Nikita MALIK, ‘Pandemic Policing: How Has COVID-19 Compromised Our Liberty?’ Forbes (12 March 2021)

Catherine PUTZ, Abhijnan REJ, Sebastian STRANGIO et al, ‘How Covid-19 changed Asia’ The Diplomat (12 March 2021)

Teri CARAWAY, ‘Indonesia’s job creation law a blow to labour’ East Asia Forum (11 March 2021)

Masayuki YUDA, ‘Thailand has most key pro-democracy leaders in detention’ Nikkei Asia (8 March 2021)

Stewart M PATRICK, ‘Democracy is down but not out’ WPR (8 March 2021)

Thomas BRUSSIG, ‘Risk more dictatorship’ Telospress (8 March 2021)

Tanya LOKOT, ‘‘Pandemic Big Brother': Highlighting impact of COVID-19 restrictions on digital freedoms in Eastern Europe’ Global Voices (7 March 2021)

Alan HOPE, ‘Curfew is a ‘serious infringement of our liberty’ says Jambon’ The Brussels Times (7 March 2021)

Ann CARTER, ‘Thailand bans assemblies, protests, mass gatherings citing Covid-19 fears’ The Thaiger (6 March 2021)

Bang XIAO et al, ‘Misinformation about COVID vaccines is putting Australia's diverse communities at risk, experts say’ ABC News (4 March 2021

Joe MASOODI, ‘Ontario’s plans for COVID-19 contact tracing wearable devices threaten freedom and privacy’ The Conversation CA (4 March 2021)

ARAB NEWS, ‘Hong Kong court denies bail to 32 democracy activists’ (4 March 2021)

Milica STOJANOVIC, ‘European Democracies ‘Under Strain’ Due To Covid-19: Report’ Balkan Insight (3 March 2021)

Shen YI, ‘West’s human rights have become a fig leaf for loss of human lives’ Global Times (2 March 2021)

Adam CREIGHTON, ‘How the West became more like China’ The Australian (2 March 2021)

Sebastian STRANGIO, ‘Elections to Follow COVID-19 Emergency, Malaysian PM Promises’ The Diplomat (1 March 2021)

Zhang HUI and Yang SHENG, ‘China's upcoming report on US human rights violations shows 2020 'a declining point' of American democracy’ Global Times (1 March 2021)

Gareth HARRIS, ‘Governments are ‘weaponising’ Covid-19 to silence dissident artist voices, report says’ The Art Newspaper (1 March 2021)

NIKKEI, ‘Japan's public stays negative toward Suga, at 44% approval’ (1 March 2021)

Kim CARR, ‘Covid powers need urgent approval, but scrutiny is essential to protect Australian democracy’ Industry Update (1 March 2021)

THE WIRE ANALYSIS, ‘Modi Only World Leader to Use COVID Vaccination Certificate to Push Cult of Personality’ (1 March 2021)

Stan GRANT, ‘The West's leadership failure on coronavirus is only helping China usurp it’ ABC News (28 February 2021)

Raoul WOOTLIFF, ‘Israel’s entry ban on citizens ‘unparalleled in democratic world,’ watchdog says’ The Times of Israel (28 February 2021)

Josh BUTLER, ‘Far-right extremists ‘recruiting’ wellness groups and anti-vaxxers, police warn’ The New Daily (27 February 2021)

Zach HOPE, ‘The combative fringe of Australia’s anti-COVID-19 vaccination movement gets political’ The Age (27 February 2021)

ESTONIAN WORLD, ‘Estonian Foreign Intelligence: the coronavirus crisis offered new opportunities for authoritarian regimes’ (26 February 2021)

SBS NEWS, ‘Tear gas flies in Bolivia as doctors protest health emergency law’ (24 February 2021)

Gerry SIMPSON, ‘UN Should Speak Up on Covid-19 “Pandemic of Human Rights Abuses”’ Human Rights Watch (24 February 2021)

Owen JONES, ‘If the UK government isn't held to account for its Covid failures, our democracy may never recover’ The Guardian (24 February 2021) – Opinion

Flavia Bellieni ZIMMERMAN, ‘How President Bolsonaro used COVID-19 to erode Brazil's democracy’ openDemocracy (24 February 2021)

António GUTERRES, ‘The world faces a pandemic of human rights abuses in the wake of Covid-19’ The Guardian (22 February 2021)

Die WELT, ‘Are Democracies More Susceptible To Pandemics?’ Worldcrunch (22 February 2021)

SBS NEWS, ‘Protesters call for resignation of Brazilian president’ (22 February 2021)

Oliver LAUGHLAND, ‘Fauci laments 'historic' Covid toll as US nears 500,000 deaths’ The Guardian (22 February 2021)

YIiswaree PALANSAMY, ‘Ahmad Zahid: Democracy in Malaysia dead after govt suspended Parliament’ Malay Mail (22 February 2021)

Frank VOGL, ‘Is democracy in decline globally?’ The Globalist (21 February 2021)

Lisa SCHLEIN, ‘COVID-19-related violations to dominate UN Rights Council agenda’ VOA News (21 February 2021)

Nike ADEBOWALE & Ebuka ONYEJI, ‘Africa: Covid-19 - How Five Hardest Hit African Countries Are Coping’ AllAfrica (20 February 2021)

Christian PAZ, ‘Why populists who got COVID-19 are a warning for Democracy’ The Atlantic (19 February 2021)

Justin CHAN, ‘Rush for burner phones as Hong Kong pushes COVID app’ Australian Financial Review (18 February 2021)

ARAB NEWS, ‘Indonesia capital warns of big fines for refusing COVID-19 vaccine’ (18 February 2021)

Andrew HUSSEY, ‘Life without liberty: how COVID turned Paris into a city of fear’ The New Statesman (17 February 2021)

Ronan LEE, ‘COVID coup: how Myanmar’s military used the pandemic to justify and enable its power grab’ The Conversation (17 February 2021)

Ian BREMMER, ‘The looming complications of long COVID’ Nikkei Asia (16 February 2021)

Jonathan SUMPTION, ‘Liberal democracy will be the biggest casualty of this pandemic’ The Telegraph (15 February 2021)

Danial DZULKIFLY, ‘A month on, Dr M claims Muhyiddin’s ‘real reason’ invoking Emergency rule laid bare’ Malay Mail (15 February 2021)

RADIO FREE EUROPE, ‘Hungary’s Orban seeks continued emergency powers for COVID-19 response’ (15 February 2021)

Karel JANICEK, ‘Czechs re-declare state of emergency to keep restrictions’ ABC News (15 February 2021)

Cody FELDMAN, ‘How the Davos Agenda 2021 outlined a path for global cooperation’ World Economic Forum (15 February 2021)

Columbus MAVHUNGA, ‘Zimbabwe's Alleged Use of COVID as Excuse to Stifle Dissent Draws UN Concern’ VOA News (13 February 2021)

Janan GANESH, ‘ On liberty, in Britain and America’ Financial Times (13 February 2021)

Wietse VAN RANSBEECK, ‘Covid-hit elections: ‘an opportunity to resuscitate democracy‘ Politics.co.uk (13 February 2021)

Alan ROBLES, ‘Filipinos breaking Covid-19 rules risk beatings, humiliation – unless they’re rich or well-connected’ South China Morning Post (12 February 2021)

John POWER, ‘Coronavirus shines light on changing face of North Korean defectors’ South China Morning Post (12 February 2021)

Chloe BERNADAUX, ‘Stop the erosion of human rights in Europe’ New Europe (12 February 2021)

Carlos SANTAMARIA and Ari WINKLEMAN, ‘The graphic truth: COVID hurts democracy, no matter response’ GZERO Media (11 February 2021)

Russell BERMAN, ‘State of Emergency and the Fragility of liberty facing COVID-19’ TELOS scope (11 February 2021)

AL-JAZEERA, ‘Many countries used COVID to justify free speech curbs: HRW’ (11 February 2021)

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, ‘Covid-19 is rolling back democracy’ (8 February 2021)

Wojciech KOŚĆ, ‘Polish media suspend reporting to protest planned tax on advertising’ Politico (10 February 2021)

Daniel TILLES, ‘Leader of Poland’s abortion protests charged with “insulting police” and “causing epidemic threat”’ Notes from Poland (10 February 2021)

DEUTSCHE WELLE, ‘Myanmar coup: What's in store for democracy in Southeast Asia?’ (9 February 2021)

Hahrin AIZAT NOORSHAHRIZAM & Ida LIM, ‘MP asks Speaker to allow written questions to ministers despite Parliament’s suspension’ Malay Mail (9 February 2021)

ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Ecuadorians to Pick President Under Strict Pandemic Measures’ (7 February 2021)

Mohamed HANIPA MAIDIN, ‘Questioning the emergency does not make one a traitor’ Aliran (7 February 2021)

Salma KHALIK, ‘Culturally tight societies like Singapore fare better in Covid-19 fight: Study’ The Strait Times (7 February 2021)

Steven LEE MEYERS, Keith BRADSHER, Sui-Lee WEE & Chris BUCKLEY, ‘How China Beat Covid-19 and Revived its Economy’ The New York Times (5 February 2021)

Amitav ACHARYA, ‘Will the Pandemic Polarise Asia?’ Chatham House (5 February 2021)

Hye JUNG HAN, ‘Singapore Spying on Students’ Laptops’ Human Rights Watch (5 February 2021)

Rina CHANDRAN, ‘Singapore to limit police access to COVID-19 contact-tracing data’ Reuters (5 February 2021)

Catherine S VALENTE, ‘Democracy very much alive in PH’ The Manila Times (5 February 2021)

Grace LI, ‘Taiwan Leapfrogs Japan And South Korea To Top Asia Democracy Table’ Nikkei Asia (4 February 2021)

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ‘Covid responses chip away at democratic norms worldwide – study’ The Jakarta Post (4 February 2021)

Nelson CHAMISA, ‘Countering reactionary, authoritarian politics in Africa’ News24 (4 February 2021)

Catherine PHILP, ‘COVID-19 “slowly killing democracy”’ The Australian (3 February 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Scott Morrison defends delayed rebuke Craig Kelly over controversial opinions on coronavirus vaccination’ (3 February 2021)

David CROWE, ‘Scott Morrison reprimands Craig Kelly over vaccine views’ Sydney Morning Herald (3 February 2021)

Hugh DE KRETSER, ‘Protecting everyone’s rights benefits us all’ The Age (2 February 2021)

Michael FOWLER, ‘‘This can’t go on’: Crossbencher stalls bid to extend state of emergency’ The Age (2 February 2021)

Patryk WACHOWIEC, ‘Courts challenge legality of Poland’s lockdown, encouraging businesses to reopen’ Notes from Poland (2 February 2021)

Martha GILL, ‘Boris Johnson’s clever trick to get away with anything – even the Covid catastrophe’ New Statesman (1 February 2021)

Katy DARTFORD, ‘It’s not right what’s going on’: Anti-lockdown protests continue in Belgium, Austria, and Slovenia’ Euronews (1 February 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Thousands protest in Austria after far-right march on COVID measures banned’ (1 February 2021)

Raphael GARCIA, ‘Brazil’s COVID-19 catastrophe: nothing less than criminal’ Al Jazeera (1 February 2021)

Aamer MADHANI, ‘Republican senators urge Joe Biden to compromise on virus relief’ Sydney Morning Herald (1 February 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Israel extends coronavirus lockdown as Orthodox Jews breach regulations to attend rabbi funerals’ (1 February 2021)

Jamie TARABAY, ‘Countries vowed to restrict use of COVID-19 data. For one government, the temptation was too great’ Fortune (1 February 2021)

NYU NEWS, ‘How Governments Address COVID-19 Misinformation—For Better or For Worse’ (1 February 2021)

Marisa GERBER & Irfan KHAN, ‘Dodger Stadium’s COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after protesters gather at entrance’ Los Angeles Times (30 January 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘French Prime Minister Jean Castex says the country can avoid going into a third coronavirus lockdown’ (30 January 2021)

Cara ANNA, ‘Tanzania’s leader denies COVID-19, and countrymen push back’ Agence-Presse (30 January 2021)

Patrick REEVELL, ‘Russia targets Navalny supporters with arrests, searches ahead of new protests’ ABC News (29 January 2021)

Ishan THAROOR, ‘World leaders pledge a ‘great reset’ after the pandemic’ Washington Post (29 January 2021) 

John FEFFER, ‘What Explains the COVID-19 East-West Divide?’ Fair Observer (29 January 2021)

Dr Naveen THACKER, ‘Covid 19: How Do We Flatten the Infodemic Curve’ Quint Fit (29 January 2021)

Jiyeon KIM & Neil RICHARDS, ‘South Korea’s COVID Success Stems From an Earlier Infectious Disease Failure’ Slate (29 January 2021)

Fadi TAWIL and Zeina KARAM, ’Unrest grows in crisis-hit Lebanon amid coronavirus lockdown’ Associated Press (29 January 2021)

EDITORIAL, ‘The Guardian view on Britain's pandemic record: a monument to failure’ The Guardian (28 January 2021)

Yan C. BENNETT & John GARRICK, ‘Investigators must counter China’s disinformation campaigns, including on the origins of Covid-19’ The Strategist (28 January 2021)

Nitya CHAKRABORTY, ‘Oxfam report on growing inequality demolished PM Modi’s claims of a ‘new India’ National Herald (28 January 2021)

Mong PALATINO, ‘Critics warns Malaysia’s state of emergency could undermine democracy’ Global Voices (28 January 2021)

The ECONOMIST, ‘Suga Yoshihide is failing to connect with the Japanese people’ (28 January 2021)

Dylan LOH, ‘Corruption deepens COVID impact in developing Asia: report’ Nikkei Asia (28 January 2021)

Amy CHEW, ‘In Malaysia, cancellation of Hindu holiday stokes minorities’ concerns South China Morning Post’ (28 January 2021) 

Raissa ROBLES & Alan ROBLES, ‘Philippines’ corruption rating under Duterte holds at same level: bad’ South China Morning Post (28 January 2021)

AL JAZEERA, ‘Lebanon riots: Security forces wound protesters with live fire’ (27 January 2021)

Bolor LKHAAJAV & Julian DIERKES, ‘With New PM, a New Generation Taking Charge in Mongolia’ The Diplomat (27 January 2021)

Matt EGAN, ‘America's billionaires have grown $1.1 trillion richer during the pandemic’ CNN Business (26 January 2021)

Nic CHEESEMAN & Rebecca GORDON, ‘Some legislatures have held governments to account during COVID-19. But not all’ The Conversation (26 January 2021)

Jen KIRBY, ‘Violent anti-lockdown protests sweep the Netherlands’ Vox (26 January 2021)

Teo YI-LING & Muhammad FAIZAL ABDUL RAHMAN, ‘Someone to Watch Over Me: Trusting Surveillance in Singapore’s ‘Smart Nation’’ The Diplomat (26 January 2021)

ABC NEWS, ‘Netherlands police clash with rioters in Eindhoven over coronavirus lockdown measures (25 January 2021)

Marc MARMINO & Layne VANDENBERG, ‘The Role of Political Culture in Taiwan’s COVID-19 Success’ The Diplomat (25 January 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Dutch police detain 240 nationwide as anti-lockdown protests turn violent’ (24 January 2021)

REUTERS, ‘Tunisia: Protests continue against police brutality, corruption’ (24 January 2021)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘A successful vaccination drive is crucial to Boris Johnson’s government’ (January 23rd 2021 edition)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘The outlook for America looks grim, but that could quickly change’ (January 23rd 2021 edition)

David HUTT, ‘Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia faces a crisis of Authoritarianism’ The Diplomat (22 January 2021

Melissa CUNNINGHAM & Rachel EDDIE, ‘'It's no time to be protesting': Andrews tells Victorians to stay away from Invasion Day rallies’ The Age (21 January 2021)

Janan GANESH, ‘Joe Biden’s presidency might be liberal democracy’s last chance’ The Irish Times (20 January 2021)

Lien HOANG, ‘Asia's COVID recovery: Vietnam's breakout moment’ Nikkei Asia (20 January 2021)

Nor Arlene TAN, ‘Privacy fears grow over Singapore virus tracking’ Arab News (20 January 2021)

Tarek AMARA, ‘Tunisian protesters revive 'Arab Spring' chant, riots continue’ Reuters (20 January 2021)

Rick KLEIN & Mary Alice PARKS, ‘Political divides deepen Biden's COVID challenge’ ABC News (19 January 2021)

BBC NEWS, ‘Joe Biden: Where does he stand on key issues?’ (19 January 2021)

Shannon JENKINS, ‘Australians want Morrison to publicly call out Craig Kelly and Trump, think tank finds’ The Mandarin (19 January 2021)

Anders FOGH RASMUSSEN, ‘A Democracy Summit Is More Urgent Than Ever’ Foreign Policy (19 January 2021)

Rachel MARTIN, ‘Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation’ NPR (19 January 2021)

Mark KENNY, ‘As Trump exits the White House, he leaves Trumpism behind in Australia’ The Conversation (18 January 2021)

David SHEARMAN, ‘Social media platforms are harming our health’ Sydney Morning Herald (18 January 2021)

Anthony SALVANTO, Kabir KHANNA, Fred BACKUS & Jennifer DE PINTO, ‘Americans see democracy under threat — CBS News poll’ CBS News (17 January 2021)

Márton SARKADI NAGY, ‘Péter Krekó: Like a Grim Episode of Black Mirror [Hungary]’ Vsquare (15 January 2021)

Badri RAINA, ‘Trump Is Gone but Trumpism Is Rampant: The Globalisation of Populism’ The Wire (14 January 2021)

Chico HARLAN, ‘Italy’s government falls into chaos, further complicating the covid response’ Washington Post (14 January 2021)

Stephanie DALZELL, ‘Senior Government figures refuse to condemn Craig Kelly for spreading misleading coronavirus information’ ABC News (13 January 2021)

Ruth MICHAELSON, ‘How Egypt’s authoritarianism is harming its Covid response’ New Statesman (13 January 2021)

Rebecca RATCLIFFE, ‘Malaysia declares Covid state of emergency amid political turmoil’ The Guardian (12 January 2021)

Hidir Reduan Abdul RASHID, ‘No check on PM's powers as Parliament suspended - lawyers’ Malaysiakini (12 January 2021)

David CROWE, ‘To build vaccine confidence Morrison should knock down his sceptic MPs’ The Age (12 January 2021)

Federico FINCHELSTEIN, ‘The long web of conspiracy’ LatinoAmérica21 (11 January 2021)

Gregory KEARNS Mvemba Phezo DIZOLELE, ‘How Covid-19 is reshaping African governance’ Mail & Guardian (9 January 2021)

Bill BIRTLES, ‘Under the cloak of COVID-19, China has turned Hong Kong from a city of protest to a city of prosecution’ ABC News (7 January 2021)

Nicholas REECE, ‘Failure of some modern democracies has contributed to COVID crisis’ Sydney Morning Herald (6 January 2021)

Stephanie RICHARDS, ‘Law Society warning over COVID QR check-in data privacy’ In Daily (6 January 2021)

P Prem KUMAR, ‘Malaysia's Muhyiddin braces for election with COVID shots in sight’ Nikkei Asia (6 January 2021)

Stan GRANT, ‘Twenty years ago 9/11 changed everything for the West and now China's rise and COVID-19 are part of the story’ ABC News (3 January 2021)

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2020

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MALAY MAIL, ‘Despite Covid-19 threat, political uncertainty, Malaysia’s parliamentary democracy remains intact and strong’ (30 December 2020)

Evelyn DOUEK, ‘The Year That Changed the Internet’ The Atlantic (28 December 2020)

Casey BRIGGS, ‘Despite the turmoil of 2020, Australians' trust in political leaders has surged. Can it last?’ ABC News (27 December 2020)

David ADLER & Stephen WERTHEIM, ‘Biden wants to convene an international 'Summit for Democracy'. He shouldn't’ The Guardian (22 December 2020)

Jason WILSON, ‘Sky News Australia is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories to a global audience online’ The Guardian (21 December 2020)

Usman HAMID, ‘In 2020, Indonesia’s leaders abandon human rights’ The Jakarta Post (20 December 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘Sweden bumps up COVID-19 measures, but stops short of lockdown as cases soar’ (17 December 2020)

Jim MALO, ‘Melbourne Public Housing Lockdowns Violated Human Rights But The Government Won’t Even Say Sorry’ Junkee (17 December 2020)

Chip LeGRAND, ‘Report shows how acting Chief Health Officer was sidelined over towers’ The Age (17 December 2020)

Waleed ALY, ‘Carefree larrikin is a myth. Australians are obedient to authority’ The Age (17 December 2020)

EDITORIAL, ‘Truth and transparency should win every time’ The Age (14 December 2020)

Stephen WERMIEL, ‘On the Supreme Court’s shadow docket, the steady volume of pandemic cases continues’ SCOTUS Blog (23 December 2020)

Jonathan FREEDLAND, ‘The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world’ The Guardian (12 December 2020)

Kaz ROSS, ‘Far-right groups have used COVID to expand their footprint in Australia. Here are the ones you need to know about’ The Conversation (11 December 2020)

Dhruv KHULLAR, ‘The Deadly Cost of America's Pandemic Politics’ The New Yorker (8 December 2020)

Inaya RAKHMANI & Panji ANUGRAH PERMANA, ‘The influence of elite interests are crucial to understanding Indonesia’s response to COVID-19’ Melbourne Asia Review (7 December 2020)

Arlina ARSHAD, ‘Decision to go ahead with polls sparks fears of virus spreading’ Straits Times (7 December 2020)

Max WALDEN, ‘Indonesian minister accused of receiving $1.1m bribes related to COVID-19 aid’ ABC News (6 December 2020)

Freya McCLEMENTS, ‘Scotland: Under the twin shadows of Covid and Brexit’ Irish Times (5 December 2020)

James BLOODWORTH, ‘Pandemic Crisis Drives Cubans to Rare, Risky Protest’ Foreign Policy (4 December 2020)

Adam BREWSTER, ‘Wisconsin Supreme Court denies Trump campaign's attempt to bypass lower court in election challenge’ CBS News (4 December 2020)

Sam FLEMING & Mehreen KHAN, ‘Brussels considers creating recovery fund without Hungary and Poland’ Financial Times (3 December 2020)

Carol ROSENBERG, ‘China Poised to Be First to Distribute Virus Vaccine in Latin America, U.S. Official Says’ New York Times (2 December 2020)

Paul WHITELEY, Harold D CLARKE, Karl HO & Marianne STEWART, ‘Donald Trump: how COVID-19 killed his hope of re-election – new research’ The Conversation (1 December 2020)

FR24 NEWS, ‘U.S. response Covid in chaos as Trump’s controversial pandemic adviser Atlas resigns’ (1 December 2020)

Nick PATON WALSH, ‘The Wuhan files: Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19’ CNN (1 December 2020)

NEWS BHARATI, ‘Pakistan PM Imran Khan forbids further PDM rallies’ (30 November 2020)

Christopher KNAUS, ‘Australians trust government to handle Covid but not corruption, report finds’ The Guardian (30 November 2020)

THE GUARDIAN, ‘Pennsylvania supreme court throws out Republican bid to reject 2.5m mail-in votes’ (29 November 2020)

DEUTSCHE WELLE, ‘Coronavirus: German anti-lockdown protests shift to Polish border’ (28 November 2020)

THE JOURNAL.IE, ‘Europe's Covid-19 death toll crosses 400,000’ (28 November 2020)

Jeremy RICHARDSON, ‘Up And Down With COVID-19: Could President Trump Be Right (Twice!) In The End?’ (27 November 2020)

Shaina AHLUWALIA, ‘Global coronavirus cases surpass 60 million infections – Reuters tally’ Reuters (26 November 2020)

Josh DYE, Mary WARD & Lucy CORMACK, ‘The moment Gladys Berejiklian broke her own COVID-19 self-isolating rules’ Sydney Morning Herald (24 November 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘Protesters set fire to Guatemala's Congress building over budget cuts’ (22 November 2020)

John POWER, ‘Coronavirus: why are Western countries like the US and Britain still not learning from Asia’s success?’ South China Morning Post (21 November 2020)

LETTER, ‘Emergency measures and civil liberties’ Irish Times (21 November 2020)

Gillian BROCKELL, ‘250,000 lives lost: How the pandemic compares to other deadly events in U.S. history’ Washington Post (20 November 2020)

Steven COLLINSON & Maeve RESTON, ‘Trump undercuts American democracy as he clings to power’ CNN (20 November 2020)

Anna NORYSKIEWICZ, ‘Hundreds arrested, police use water cannons to quell "aggressive" protests against Germany's COVID rules’ CBS News (18 November 2020)

Christoph STRACK, ‘Opinion: Amid coronavirus, democracy is at stake’ Deutsche Welle (18 November 2020)

Zanny MINTON BEDDOES, ‘After the crisis, opportunity’ The Economist (November 17th 2020 edition)

Maurizio GUERRERO, ‘On the Back of the Pandemic, the Militarisation of Latin America is Gathering Momentum, Analysts Warn’ (17 November 2020)

Stephanie RICHARDS, ‘New restrictions on gatherings, venues as SA "faces a second wave" of COVID-19’ In Daily (16 November 2020)

Kari PAUL & Joan E GREVE, ‘Trump repeats false Covid claims and attacks New York governor Cuomo in first remarks since election loss – as it happened’ The Guardian (14 November 2020)

Peter WALKER, Dan SABBAGH, Rajeev SYAL & Lisa O'CARROLL, ‘Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street role by Christmas’ The Guardian (13 November 2020)

Edit ZGUT, ‘Hungary’s Constitution – Vehicle for Political Corruption’ Visegrad Insight (12 November 2020)

CNBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus live updates: California becomes second U.S. state to surpass 1 million Covid cases’ (12 November 2020)

Brian BENNETT & Tessa BERENSON, ‘How Donald Trump Lost The Election’ Time (7 November 2020)

Ashley PARKER, Josh DAWSEY, Matt VISER & Michael SCHERER, ‘How Trump’s erratic behavior and failure on coronavirus doomed his reelection’ Washington Post (7 November 2020)

REUTERS, ‘U.S. Daily Coronavirus Cases Exceed 125,000, Third Day Over 100,000’ (7 November 2020)

Elizabeth BYRNE, ‘High Court dismisses challenge to Victoria's coronavirus lockdown’ ABC News (7 November 2020)

Caroline DE GRUYTER, ‘Europe Doesn’t Want Lockdowns. It Wants Government.’ Foreign Policy (6 November 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘China Is Winning the Vaccine Race’ (5 November 2020)

Elise VIEBECK, ‘When we’ll find out election results: Here’s what we know about swing states, ballot counting and more’ Washington Post (4 November 2020)

Angela RASMUSSEN, ‘America’s Pandemic Response Hangs in the Balance’ Foreign Affairs (4 November 2020)

Tom CORMIER & Kevin CASAS-ZAMORA, ‘COVID and Canada’s chance to defend and renew democracy worldwide’ iPolitics (4 November 2020)

Michael PEEL, ‘Belgium’s fight against Covid hindered by regional rivalries’ Financial Times (4 November 2020)

Adam LEVY, Ethan COHEN & Liz STARK, ‘More than 100 million ballots were cast before Election Day’ (3 November 2020)

Martin WOLF, ‘Ten ways coronavirus crisis will shape world in long term’ Financial Times (3 November 2020)

Andrew MacASKILL & Guy FAULCONBRIDGE, ‘Johnson locks down England as UK COVID-19 cases pass 1 million’ (1 November 2020)

Martin PENGELLY, ‘US sets world record for coronavirus cases in 24 hours’ The Guardian (1 November 2020)

John KENNEDY & Zac ANDERSON, ‘With Florida a big prize, Biden, Trump slug it out in final, frenzied days of coronavirus-altered election’ USA Today (31 October 2020)

Graham KEELEY, ‘Protesters clash with police over COVID-19 restrictions in Barcelona’ Reuters (31 October 2020)

Joshua KEATING, ‘The Pandemic Threatened Global Democracy. Instead, It’s Strengthened It’ Slate (30 October 2020)

REUTERS, ‘U.S. early voting tops 70 million, continuing historic pace’ (28 October 2020)

RTÉ NEWS (Ireland), ‘Biden accuses Trump of surrendering to pandemic’ (28 October 2020)

Genevieve QUINTAL, ‘Ramaphosa in quarantine after Covid-19 contact’ Business Live (28 October 2020)

Jon HENLEY & Pamela DUNCAN, ‘European support for populist beliefs falls, YouGov survey suggests’ The Guardian (25 October 2020)

FMT NEWS, ‘No Emergency, says Agong [Malaysia]’ (25 October 2020)

Hazlin HASSAN, ‘Malaysia’s King calls for calm ahead of meeting with other royals to discuss emergency move’ Straits Times (25 October 2020)

Damien GAYLE, ‘Thousands march in London in fourth anti-lockdown protest’ The Guardian (25 October 2020)

DE ELIZABETH, ‘New Data Shows Large Early Youth Voter Turnout in 2020 Election’ Teen Vogue (24 October 2020)

ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Polish president Andrzej Duda tests positive for Covid-19’ (24 October 2020)

Joan E GREVE & Maanvi SINGH, ‘US 2020 election could have the highest rate of voter turnout since 1908’ The Guardian (24 October 2020)

Thomas J. BOLLYKY, Sawyer CROSBY & Samantha KIERNAN, ‘Fighting a Pandemic Requires Trust’ Foreign Affairs (23 October 2020)

Jane FRYER, ‘Inside the court of King Bling [Thailand]’ Daily Mail (22 October 2020)

Tony BLAIR, ‘Tony Blair: I’ve Always Been an Optimist. But for the First Time Ever I’m Troubled About the Future’ Time (22 October 2020)

Connor LALLY & Mark HILLIARD, ‘Gardaí [police] use batons and handcuffs to quell anti-lockdown protest in Dublin’ Irish Times (22 October 2020)

Josef BOUSKA, ‘How Europe and America blew it on the pandemic: A tale of blindness and arrogance’ Salon (22 October 2020)

Gwen ROBINSON & Marwaan MACAN-MARKAR, ‘Thai protests build as pandemic fuels unrest across Southeast Asia’ Nikkei (21 October 2020)

Quinn McKEW, ‘Even before coronavirus hit, freedom of expression was already near rock bottom’ The Independent (21 October 2020)

Angus McNELLY, ‘Bolivia elections: socialist Luis Arce celebrates projected victory amid democratic fragility’ The Conversation (20 October 2020)

ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Luis Arce, Evo Morales’ protégé, claims victory in Bolivia’s presidential election’ Los Angeles Times (19 October 2020)

Toby MANHIRE, ‘From ‘beacon of hope’ to ‘incompetent’: world media on Jacinda Ardern’s big election win’ The Spinoff (19 October 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights’ (October 17th 2020 edition)

Clay LUCAS, ‘The Facebook election: the vicious online battle for Dandenong Council [Melbourne]’ The Age (17 October 2020)

Damien CAVE, ‘Jacinda Ardern, Hero to Liberals Abroad, Is Validated at Home’ The New York Times (17 October 2020)

Tracy WITHERS & Ainsley THOMPSON, ‘Ardern Storms to Historic Election Win After Crushing Covid’ Bloomberg (17 October 2020)

OTAGO DAILY TIMES, ‘Judith Collins concedes defeat’ [New Zealand] (17 October 2020)

Virginia TRIOLI, ‘Victorians have done our bit to suppress COVID. Premier, have you done yours?’ ABC News (17 October 2020)

Lloyd GREEN, ‘American Crisis review: Andrew Cuomo on Covid, Trump … and a job with Joe Biden?’ The Guardian (17 October 2020)

Dan Jervis-BARDY, ‘ACT election 2020: How the major parties fought the ACT election’ Canberra Times (16 October 2020)

Nicholas GRUEN, ‘COVID won’t kill populism, even though populist leaders have handled the crisis badly’ (16 October 2020)

Anne TWOMEY, ‘Sack the Victorian government? This is no time to revive the divine right of kings’ The Age (16 October 2020)

Cole STANGLER, ‘Macron has enjoyed wielding his authority during Covid – and the French don't like it’ The Guardian (16 October 2020)

THE LOCAL.FR, ‘Police search French health minister's home in probe over Covid-19 handling’ (15 October 2020)

Rebecca RATCLIFFE, ‘Thailand uses emergency decree to ban gatherings after Bangkok protests’ The Guardian (15 October 2020)

Paul MASON, ‘How the Covid-19 crisis has turned the UK into a “Frankenstate”’ New Statesman (14 October 2020)

David SMITH, ‘Biden leads Trump by 17 points as election race enters final stage’ (14 October 2020)

Summer CONCEPCION, ‘Giuliani Declares ‘People Don’t Die Of This Disease Anymore’ Amid Rising COVID Deaths’ TPM (13 October 2020)

Abdil Mughis MUDHOFFIR & Rafiqa Qurrata A'YUN, ‘Omnibus law shows how democratic process has been corrupted Indonesia at Melbourne’ (12 October 2020)

Maanvi SINGH, ‘Trump holds packed rally after Covid diagnosis as he struggles in polls’ The Guardian (12 October 2020)

Lucy DIAVOLO, ‘First Amy Coney Barrett Hearing Is a Display of GOP Senators' COVID-19 Hubris’ Teen Vogue (12 October 2020)

Luke BECK, ‘Can a High Court challenge of Melbourne’s lockdown succeed? Here’s what the Constitution says’ The Conversation (12 October 2020)

Robert REICH, ‘Trump said he could kill and win – Covid and cheating may prove it’ The Guardian (11 October 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘The real lessons from Sweden’s approach to covid-19’ (October 10th edition)

Gabby ORR, ‘Writing off Trump, GOP allies focus on one last big win’ Politico (10 October 2020)

Elias CLURE, ‘Victorian Government drops detention powers from coronavirus omnibus bill’ ABC News (7 October 2020)

James OLIPHANT & Jeff MASON, ‘With Trump's health in question, Pence-Harris VP debate to draw outsized attention’ Reuters (6 October 2020)

Simone GALIMBERTI, ‘Sustainability and democracy come under threat’ The Jakarta Post (5 October 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘A fairy-tale election result beckons for New Zealand’s prime minister’ (Oct 3rd 2020 edition)

Matthew FLINDERS & Anthony PEREIRA, ‘Donald Trump gets coronavirus: what catching COVID-19 meant for Boris Johnson and Jair Bolsonaro’ The Conversation (3 October 2020)

Samantha PEARSON & Jason DOUGLAS, ‘Covid-19 Left U.K.’s Boris Johnson and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro Unscathed Politically’ Wall Street Journal (3 October 2020)

Maeve RESTON, ‘White House sows confusion about Trump's condition as source tells reporters next 48 hours will be critical’ CNN (3 October 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘India's coronavirus death toll passes 100,000 with no end in sight’ (3 October 2020)

Ben WALKER, ‘What happens to public opinion when a world leader gets Covid-19?’ New Statesman (2 October 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘How will Donald Trump’s covid-19 infection affect the election?’ (2 October 2020)

Timothy J. LYNCH, ‘Donald Trump has COVID-19. How might this affect his chances of re-election?’ The Conversation (2 October 2020)

Tanya LEWIS, ‘Trump’s COVID Infection Puts Him in Multiple High-Risk Categories’ Scientific American (2 October 2020)

Rana AYYUB, ‘India pushes out Amnesty International, accelerating its march toward authoritarianism’ Washington Post (2 October 2020)

Thompson CHAU, Will COVID-19 delay Myanmar's elections? Four things to know Myanmar Times (1 October 2020)

Derek THOMPSON, ‘How Voting by Mail Could Cost Biden the Election’ The Atlantic (30 September 2020)

Alice PARK, ‘The Trump-Biden Debate Was a Missed Opportunity to Provide Americans With Clarity on COVID-19’ Time (30 September 2020)

Sheryl Gay STOLBERG & Noah WEILAND, ‘Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump’ New York Times (30 September 2020)

Yee-Fui NG, ‘Have our governments become too powerful during COVID-19?’ The Conversation (30 September 2020)

Peter HARTCHER, ‘Under cover of COVID there's been troubling news about tyranny's rise’ Sydney Morning Herald (29 September 2020)

Sabrina SIDDIQUI, ‘Presidential Debate to Focus on Coronavirus, Supreme Court’ Wall Street Journal (29 September 2020)

Adam GELLER & Rishabh JAIN, ‘Global deaths from coronavirus pass 1 million’ The Age (29 September 2020)

Rick SARRE & Joe McINTYRE, ‘Many anti-lockdown protesters believe the government is illegitimate. Their legal arguments don’t stand up’ The Conversation (28 September 2020)

Christopher KNAUS, ‘Australian ministers increasingly bypassing parliament to create laws, study finds’ The Guardian (28 September 2020)

Shaun CARNEY, ‘Accepting restrictions shows we have faith in democracy’ The Age (27 September 2020)

Ranjona BANERJI, ‘Do Indians, neither vigilant nor vocal, deserve democracy?’ National Herald (27 September 2020)

Dinesha SAMARARATNE, ‘Sri Lanka’s constitutional ping-pong’ HIMAL South Asian (25 September 2020)

Allison PECORIN & Trish TURNER, ‘Unanimous Senate commits to peaceful transfer of power after Trump refuses’ ABC News (25 September 2020)

Barton GELLMAN, ‘The Election That Could Break America’ The Atlantic (Special Preview: November 2020 Issue)

Cameron JOSEPH, ‘Trump Just Refused to Commit to a Peaceful Transition of Power’ Vice (24 September 2020)

Elisabeth BRAW, ‘How Italy Snatched Health From the Jaws of Death’ Foreign Policy (23 September 2020)

Leyland CECCO, ‘Trudeau bets on strength of his Covid response in gamble to stay in power’ The Guardian (21 September 2020)

Owen BOWCOTT, Heather STEWART & Andrew SPARROW, ‘Parliament surrendered role over Covid emergency laws, says Lady Hale’ The Guardian (21 September 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus: Ministers 'ruling by decree' on virus, warns Sir Graham Brady’ (21 September 2020)

Matilda BOSELY, ‘'Overreach and overzealous': concerns over Victoria's proposed new police powers’ The Guardian (21 September 2020)

Conor GALLAGHER, ‘The far right rises: Its growth as a political force in Ireland’ Irish Times (19 September 2020)

Olga LÖBLOVÁ, Endre BORBÁTH & Julia RONE, ‘Coronavirus: why central and eastern European countries seem to be running out of luck’ The Conversation (19 September 2020)

Michael McGOWAN, ‘How Victoria’s Covid lockdown protests are galvanising Australia's right’ The Guardian (19 September 2020)

Lisa COX & AAP, ‘Melbourne anti-lockdown protesters arrested and chased by police on horseback’ The Guardian (19 September 2020)

Perry BACON JR., ‘What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Could Mean For 2020 And The Supreme Court’ Five Thirty Eight (18 September 2020)

Matthew PARRIS, ‘Boris Johnson’s zing has well and truly zung’ The Times (18 September 2020)

Gergely SZAKACS, ‘Orban has ruled Hungary for a decade. Could the pandemic bring him down?’ Reuters (18 September 2020)

Bartosz LECH, ‘The threat posed by foreign interference in elections is serious, urgent, and international’ Emerging Europe (17 September 2020)

Max WALDEN & Erwin RENALDI, ‘As Indonesia's COVID-19 deaths continue to climb, economic recovery remains the focus’ ABC News (16 September 2020)

Michael T. OSTERHOLM & Mark OLSHAKER, ‘America Needs to Lock Down Again’ Foreign Affairs (16 September 2020)

Veronika HACKENBROCH & Marc PITZKE, ‘Interview with Bill Gates on COVID-19: “It's Mind-Blowing That We're Not Further Along!”’ Der Spiegel (16 September 2020)

Chris UHLMANN, ‘COVID-19 has hammered home some uncomfortable truths about us as a people’ Sydney Morning Herald (16 September 2020)

Tom Gerald DALY, ‘As the US elections near, global democracy is at stake’ Pursuit (15 September 2020)

Melissa CROUCH, ‘Under cover of COVID, Indonesia's most respected public institution is under attack’ Sydney Morning Herald (14 September 2020)

Naomi NEILSEN, ‘Victoria’s lockdown renews calls for national human rights charter’ LawyersWeekly (14 September 2020)

Kelsie NABBEN, ‘Hacking the pandemic: how Taiwan’s digital democracy holds COVID-19 at bay’ The Conversation (11 September 2020)

Nic CHEESEMAN, ‘How to hold elections safely and uphold democracy during the COVID-19 pandemic’ The Conversation (10 September 2020)

Philip WILLIAMS, ‘Donald Trump was aware of the dangers of coronavirus and chose to 'play it down', new book reveals’ ABC News (10 September 2020)

Joseph STEPANSKY, ‘US elections updates: Biden attacks Trump on coronavirus’ Al-Jazeera (10 September 2020)

Christina WILKIE, ‘‘A disgrace’: Biden and Democrats rip Trump for saying he downplayed coronavirus’ CNBC (9 September 2020)

Sue WAREHAM, ‘This government needs to stop militarising our biggest challenges’ Canberra Times (7 September 2020)

Cameron HOUSTON, ‘'No justification': Anger over mobile surveillance units at public parks’ The Age [Australia] (6 September 2020)

Tony WRIGHT, ‘The chamber remade as virus brings new order to Parliament’ The Age [Australia] (6 September 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘UN experts decry Hong Kong security law in open letter to China’ (5 September 2020)

Michael McGOWAN, ‘Melbourne anti-lockdown protests: at least 15 arrested in violent clashes with police’ The Guardian (5 September 2020)

Jonathan FREEDLAND, ‘The danger is now clear: Trump is destroying democracy in broad daylight’ The Guardian (5 September 2020)

Holly OTTERBEIN, ‘Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office’ Politico (4 September 2020)

Shoaib DANIYAL, ‘By scrapping Parliament’s Question Hour, government is attacking the foundation of Indian democracy’ Scroll.in (4 September 2020)

ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Trump backtracks after comments seem to suggest people try voting twice in presidential election’ (4 September 2020)

Hannah ELLIS-PETERSEN, ‘India logs record 83,883 Covid-19 cases in day’ The Guardian (4 September 2020)

Andrea CARSON, ‘Threat to your news is real, and serious’ Canberra Times (4 September 2020)

Pierre-Henry DESHAYES, ‘Covid-19 gives Norwegian kids a lesson in democracy’ Yahoo! News/Agence France-Presse (4 September 2020)

Thomas BEAUMONT & Lisa MASCARO, ‘Pandemic politicking: Democrats at laptops. GOP at your door’ StarTribune (3 September 2020)

ZEE MEDIA BUREAU, ‘India a country of political stability with commitment to democracy and diversity, says PM Narendra Modi at US-India Forum’ (3 September 2020)

Narelle MIRAGLIOTTA, Nicholas BARRY & Zim NWOKORA, ‘Will national cabinet change federal-state dynamics?’ The Conversation (3 September 2020)

Maria O’SULLIVAN, ‘Protests have been criminalised under COVID. What is incitement? How is it being used in the pandemic?’ The Conversation (3 September 2020)

Melissa DAVEY, ‘Victoria police powers under scrutiny after fines issued for exercise and going to supermarket’ The Guardian (3 September 2020)

John SILVESTER, ‘Should the fight against the virus mean sacrificing free speech?’ The Age (3 September 2020)

Emma BRANCATISANO, ‘Claims of 'coronavirus death squads' as Colombia is rocked by nine massacres in just two weeks’ SBS News (2 September 2020)

Brad RYAN & Zalika RIZMAL, ‘Coronavirus state of emergency extension passes Victorian Parliament's Upper House’ ABC News (2 September 2020)

Daniel HURST, ‘Coronavirus has fuelled authoritarian trends around the world, Australia's Dfat warns’ The Guardian (2 September 2020)

Klaas WOLDRING, ‘It's time to think boldly: let's abandon federation’ Canberra Times (2 September 2020)

John ELLIS, ‘Biden is on track to lose the Electoral College’ Boston Globe (1 September 2020)

Ana PALACIO, ‘A Democratic Doomsday?’ Project Syndicate (31 August 2020)

TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD, ‘Editorial: The census is in trouble. So is democracy’ Los Angeles Times (31 August 2020)

Justin SHERMAN, ‘Covid Is Accelerating a Global Censorship Crisis’ Wired (30 August 2020)

Gay ALCORN, ‘'It's got to be a big stick': Melburnians, perhaps surprisingly, are all for lockdown’ The Guardian (29 August 2020)

Supriya GARIKIPATI & Uma S KAMBHAMPATI, ‘Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up’ The Conversation (28 August 2020)

Eric JOHNSTON & Satoshi SUGIYAMA, ‘Abe says he will again resign due to poor health’ Japan Times (28 August 2020)

CHANNEL NEWS ASIA, ‘Biden says COVID-19 crisis, unrest symptoms of 'Donald Trump's America'’ (28 August 2020)

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, ‘Biden, Harris slam Trump over social unrest, COVID response’ MSN/Agence France-Presse (28 August 2020)

Mary Alice PARKS, ‘The striking contrast between the Democratic and Republican conventions’ ABC News (28 August 2020)

Eric PARPART, ‘Fifteen student-leaders charged for altercation at protest; government has now charged 28 protesters’ Thai Enquirer (28 August 2020)

Anjum SHABBIR, ‘Access to justice and COVID-19-related state of emergency: litigation before the Court of Justice’ EU Law Live (28 August 2020)

BBC, ‘European countries tighten rules amid outbreaks’ (28 August 2020)

Aslı Ü. BÂLI & Hanna LERNER, ‘Power to the Parliaments’ Boston Review (27 August 2020)

Dan MERICA, MJ LEE, Eric BRADNER & Daniella DIAZ, ‘Kamala Harris slams Trump's handling of coronavirus: 'He was scared'’ CNN Politics (27 August 2020)

Phillip COOREY, ‘Pushback against extraordinary powers has begun’ Australian Financial Review (27 August 2020)

HINDU TIMES, ‘Opposition to build on ‘Janta Parliament’ ideas’ (26 August 2020)

Nicolle YAPUR, Alex VASQUEZ & Patricia LAYA, ‘Covid Victims Are Forced Into Filthy Warehouses in Venezuela’ Bloomberg (24 August 2020)

THEJOURNAL.IE, ‘'Ireland rocked by coronavirus scandal': How the Golfgate controversy made international news’ (24 August 2020)

Sarah MOULDS, ‘As the first ‘remote’ sitting starts in Canberra, virtual parliaments should be the new norm, not a COVID bandaid’ The Conversation (24 August 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘US House of Representatives votes to deliver billions in funding to postal service, block cost-cutting measures’ (23 August 2020)

Chip LE GRAND & Sumeyya ILANBEY, ‘We can’t keep living like this': COVID-19 state of emergency opens political divide’ The Age (23 August 2020)

Lucy CAMPBELL, Jessica MURRAY, Damien GAYLE & Alison ROURKE, ‘France reports another record jump in post-lockdown cases – as it happened’ The Guardian (21 August 2020)

Tony ROMM, Lisa REIN & Jacob BOGAGE, ‘Democrats, election watchdogs see ‘glaring hole’ in Postal Service pledge to roll back recent changes’ Washington Post (20 August 2020)

Rebecca RATCLIFFE, ‘Thailand arrests activists who took part in pro-democracy protests’ The Guardian (20 August 2020)

Luke McGEE, ‘Many leaders used Covid as cover to dent democracy. Trump may be the first to openly admit it’ CNN (20 August 2020)

Ben RHODES, ‘The Democratic Renewal What It Will Take to Fix U.S. Foreign Policy’ Foreign Affairs (September/October 2020 issue)

John WARHURST, ‘COVID-19 could turn these elections on their heads’ Canberra Times (20 August 2020)

Damian RADCLIFFE, ‘COVID-19 has ravaged American newsrooms – here’s why that matters’ The Conversation (20 August 2020)

Jerry HARMER, ‘Thailand’s Student-led Anti-government Protests Grow’ The Diplomat (20 August 2020)

Catherine PUTZ, ‘Death and Denial in Turkmenistan’ The Diplomat (19 August 2020)

Jon HENLEY, ‘Female-led countries handled coronavirus better, study suggests’ The Guardian (18 August 2020)

RNZ, ‘High Court rules some of Covid-19 level 4 lockdown was unlawful’ (19 August 2020)

Charlotte JONES, ‘Smaller East Coast parties struggling to campaign under Covid-19’ RNZ (New Zealand) (18 August 2020)

Aarefa JOHARI, ‘Citizens are hosting their own Parliament to hold government accountable during Covid-19 crisis’ Scroll.In (18 August 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘The pandemic is affecting elections around the world’ (17 August 2020)

Praveen MENON, ‘New Zealand's Ardern postpones election as coronavirus flares up’ Reuters (17 August 2020)

Michelle GRATTAN, ‘View from The Hill: ‘Virtual’ participants and border restrictions will make for a bespoke parliamentary sitting’ The Conversation (17 August 2020)

Nick WIGGINS & Damien CARRICK, ‘Could tracking devices stop people breaching coronavirus quarantine rules?’ ABC News (17 August 2020)

Simon MARCUS, ‘Has the post-Covid future already been decided?’ Spiked (17 August 2020)

PHILSTAR GLOBAL, ‘Palace: Duterte in 'perpetual isolation', in the country’ (17 August 2020)

Oliver MILMAN, ‘Obama denounces Trump bid to deter voters with attack on post office’ The Guardian (15 August 2020)

Geetika AHUJA & Manmeet SINGH, ‘How COVID ‘Undermined’ India’s Parliament & Parliamentary System’ The Quint (15 August 2020)

Dave McRAE, ‘Talking Indonesia: Covid-19 and the military’ Indonesia at Melbourne (13 August 2020)

Michael BRYANT, ‘Has COVID-19 quietly killed Canadian Confederation?’ The Globe and Mail (13 August 2020)

John WARHURST, ‘Australian politics has narrowed, and that isn't good’ The Canberra Times (13 August 2020)

Jake JOHNSON, ‘'A Conspiracy to Steal the Election, Folks': Alarms Sound After Postal Worker Reports Removal of Sorting Machines’ Common Dreams [USA] (12 August 2020)

Stephen DARK, ‘To solve our problems, we should be free of ideologies, right?’ The Fifth Estate (12 August 2020)

Cathy KEZELMAN, ‘Racism, coronavirus and collective trauma’ Pro Bono (12 August 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Democratic National Convention: What to expect at Biden's nomination party’ (11 August 2020)

Tom Gerald DALY, ‘In times of crisis, does Parliament really matter?’ Pursuit (10 August 2020)

Frank BONGIORNO, ‘Australia’s politicians have learned that in the era of coronavirus, the future comes at you fast’ The Conversation (10 August 2020)

CANBERRA TIMES, ‘Thousands protest against Netanyahu's rule’ (9 August 2020)

Tom PHILLIPS, ‘Brazil's ex-health minister attacks Bolsonaro as Covid-19 deaths tops 100,000’ The Guardian (8 August 2020)

Matthew BROCKETT, ‘Jacinda Ardern, riding COVID success, launches re-election bid’ Sydney Morning Herald (8 August 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘Victorian anti-lockdown protest organisers raided and arrested before dangerous demonstration’ (7 August 2020)

María Silvia TRIGO & Anatoly KURMANAEV, ‘Bolivia Under Blockade as Protesters Choke Access to Cities’ New York Times (7 August 2020)

Felix LIGHTMAN, ‘Pandemic brinkmanship: the geopolitics behind the race for a vaccine’ New Statesman (6 August 2020)

Wade DAVIS, ‘The Unraveling of America’ Rolling Stone (6 August 2020)

Tish SANGHERA, ‘Modi’s Textbook Manipulations’ Foreign Policy (6 August 2020)

Simeon TEGEL, ‘Peru Just Fired Its Whole Cabinet in the Middle of a COVID-19 Surge’ Vice News (6 August 2020)

Nadia URBINATI, ‘The Pandemic Hasn’t Killed Populism’ Foreign Affairs (6 August 2020)

Laura THORNTON, ‘Of pandemics and protests: democracy renewal’ The Financial (5 August 2020)

Martin BELAM & Joanna WALTERS, ‘Donald Trump flounders in interview over US Covid-19 death toll’ The Guardian (5 August 2020)

Naomi NEILSEN, ‘Former High Court justice warns ‘sloganeering’ damaged government trust’ Lawyers Weekly (5 August 2020)

Dean KNIGHT, ‘Lockdown’s Legality and the Rule of Law’ Ideasroom (4 August 2020)

Ian SAMPLE, ‘Secrecy has harmed UK government's response to Covid-19 crisis, says top scientist’ The Guardian (3 August 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak’ (3 August 2020)

Gautam BHAN, Teresa CALDEIRA, Kelly GILLESPIE & AbdouMaliq SIMONE, ‘The Pandemic, Southern Urbanisms and Collective Life’ Society + Space (3 August 2020)

Ben WESTCOTT & Anne LAGAMAYO, ‘Critics are accusing the Philippines government of using the coronavirus lockdown to crack down on dissent’ CNN (3 August 2020)

Shruti MAHAJAN, ‘“To assume CJI is SC and SC is CJI is to undermine the institution of Supreme Court”, Prashant Bhushan files affidavit in contempt case’ Bar & Bench (3 August 2020)

Dan McGARRY & Tess NEWTON, ‘We can't allow Pacific leaders to use coronavirus as a cover for authoritarianism’ The Guardian (3 August 2020)

Jeremy DIAMOND & Ryan NOBLES, ‘GOP convention in Charlotte closed to press, portions will be livestreamed’ CNN (2 August 2020)

MSNBC NEWS, ‘Trump may not leave with loss, Dems must prepare experts say’ (2 August 2020)

DEUTSCHE WELLE, ‘Germany: 45 officers injured at Berlin rally against coronavirus curbs’ (2 August 2020)

AL-JAZEERA, ‘Israel's Netanyahu rails against protesters asking him to resign’ (2 August 2020)

Anne TWOMEY, ‘Explainer: what is a ‘state of disaster’ and what powers does it confer?’ The Conversation (2 August 2020)

Gwilym David BLUNT, ‘Face mask rules: do they really violate personal liberty?’ The Conversation (31 July 2020)

Danish RAZA, ‘India arrests dozens of journalists in clampdown on critics of Covid-19 response’ The Guardian (31 July 2020)

Edward LUCE, ‘A coronavirus vaccine could split America’ Financial Times (30 July 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Donald Trump suggests delay to 2020 US presidential election’ (30 July 2020)

Mary HARRIS, ‘What Happened in New York’s Primary Could Happen to You in November’ Slate (30 July 2020)

Andy WELLS, ‘Second wave of coronavirus ‘homegrown' as UK government accused of blaming Europe for spike in cases’ Yahoo! News (30 July 2020)

Mada SUKMAJATI, ‘Local politics, Pilkada and the pandemic’ Indonesia at Melbourne (29 July 2020)

Steve SANFORD, ‘Anti-Government Protests Mount in Thailand as Young Thais Demand Change’ Voa News (29 July 2020)

Alexander NAZARYAN, ‘Trump complains that Americans like Fauci more than him’ Yahoo! News (29 July 2020)

PROJECT SYNDICATE, ‘Robert Muggah Says More…’ [concerning Brazil] (28 July 2020)

Georgia WILKINS, ‘Conflict of Interest: Morrison’s COVID Commission just got a whole lot more secretive’ Crikey (28 July 2020)

Danilelle VAN DALEN, ‘Why we need a royal commission into the pandemic response’ Stuff (New Zealand) (28 July 2020)

Ashley PARKER & Philip RUCKER, ‘One question still dogs Trump: Why not try harder to solve the coronavirus crisis?’ Washington Post (27 July 2020)

Amy KAZMIN, ‘Modi stumbles: India’s deepening coronavirus crisis’ Financial Times (27 July 2020)

Tom PHILLIPS, David AGREN, Dan COLLYNS & Uki GOÑI, ‘Tsunami of fake news hurts Latin America's effort to fight coronavirus’ The Guardian (26 July 2020)

Patrick STOKES, ‘At swords’ length: Could a virtual parliament do the job?’ The New Daily (25 July 2020)

Jeffrey KLUGER, ‘The Misinformation Age Has Exacerbated—And Been Exacerbated By—the Coronavirus Pandemic’ Time (23 July 2020)

John WARHURST, ‘Parliament has been deemed surplus to requirements’ The Canberra Times (23 July 2020)

Luke McGEE, ‘The EU struck a big rescue deal on Covid-19. But it might have dealt a blow to democracy’ CNN (22 July 2020)

Dennis MULLER, ‘Whether a ratings chase or ideological war, News Corp’s coronavirus coverage is dangerous’ The Conversation (22 July 2020)

Dennis ATKINS, ‘Surely our darkest crisis is not the time for politicians to be keeping their distance’ InQueensland (21 July 2020)

Joel ACHENBACH, William WAN, Karin BRULLIARD & Chelsea JANES, ‘The crisis that shocked the world: America’s response to the coronavirus’ The Washington Post (20 July 2020)

Laurie PATTON, ‘Coronavirus shutdown shows it’s time for Australia to have a virtual parliament’ The New Daily (18 July 2020)

Pavel CHIKOV, ‘Surveillance pandemic Russia carried out surveillance on an unprecedented scale during the coronavirus lockdown’ Meduza (17 July 2020)

Greg SARGENT, ‘As the Trump disaster gets worse, a new political theory helps explain it’ Washington Post (16 July 2020)

David SMITH, ‘'I think you can trust me': Fauci stands firm as Trump works to undermine him’ The Guardian (16 July 2020)

Tommy BEER, ‘New IHME Model Projects More Than 224,000 Coronavirus Deaths In U.S. By Nov. 1’

Felipe NETO, ‘Trump Isn’t the Worst Pandemic President’ New York Times (15 July 2020)

Cliff VENZON, ‘Duterte's strongman popularity at risk from COVID-19 recession’ Nikkei Asian Review (14 July 2020)

Mauricio SAVARESE & Marcelo de SOUSA, ‘As virus spreads, Bolsonaro ties with military under strain’ Yahoo! News (14 July 2020)

AL-JAZEERA, COVID-19 cases soar in US, grow in India, South Africa and Brazil’ (14 July 2020)

David JACKSON & John FRITZE, ‘'In Fauci we trust.' Democrats pounce on Trump's rift with experts as coronavirus cases swell’ USA Today (13 July 2020)

Anthony BONATO & Alex NAZARETH, ‘Facts or fake news: Revealing patterns in the COVID-19 tweets of Trudeau and Trump’ The Conversation(13 July 2020)

William BIRD & Thandi SMITH, ‘Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly Trends in South Africa’ Daily Maverick (13 July 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘Hong Kong democracy activists charged for holding 'unauthorised' Tiananmen Square vigil’ (13 July 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘North Macedonia holds first election since historic name change amid coronavirus surge’ (13 July 2020)

Amy BAINBRIDGE, ‘Malaysian police investigate Australian journalists over Al Jazeera documentary’ ABC News (11 July 2020)

Björn DRESSEL, ‘COVID-19 and abusive constitutionalism in Southeast Asia: where are the courts?’ New Mandala (9 July 2020)

Athena Charanne R. PRESTO, ‘Mayors are keeping the Philippines afloat as Duterte’s COVID-19 response flails’ New Mandala (8 July 2020)

FRANCE 24, ‘Covid-19 has exposed the limits of 'fact-denying populism', Merkel tells European Parliament’ (8 July 2020)

Laurie PATTON, ‘It’s time to give COVIDSafe the flick’ Crikey (8 July 2020)

Emily OLSON, ‘President Jair Bolsonaro has COVID-19, but don't expect Brazil's coronavirus response to change’ ABC News (8 July 2020)

Eric LEVITZER, ‘The Coronavirus Crisis Is Proving That Democracy Works’ Intelligencer (7 July 2020)

DEMOCRACY NOW!, ‘COVID-19 Spikes Around the World Force Countries to Reimpose Lockdowns’ (6 July 2020)

CNBC, ‘Trump stokes national divisions in Fourth of July speech’ (5 July 2020)

Danielle CURRIE & Michael Frommer, ‘COVIDSafe app helps stop the spread - our research proves it’ Sydney Morning Herald (5 July 2020)

Rakesh MOHAN CHATURVEDI, ‘The challenges of holding a virtual Parliament session’ The Economic Times (India) (4 July 2020)

Royce KURMELOVS, ‘The flaws in the COVIDSafe app’ The Saturday Paper (4 July 2020)

Maeve RESTON, ‘Trump tries to drag America backward on a very different July 4th’ CNN (4 July 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘Donald Trump says coronavirus will 'disappear'. The US just set a daily record with 50,000 new infections’ (3 July 2020)

Stan WINFORD, ‘Lockdown returns: how far can coronavirus measures go before they infringe on human rights?’ The Conversation (2 July 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘Hong Kong police fire water cannons at crowds protesting against new China security law on anniversary of British handover’ (1 July 2020)

Roscoe WHELAN, ‘Russians are voting on whether to extend Vladimir Putin's presidency until 2036’ ABC News (1 July 2020)

Jade MacMILLAN & Andrew GREENE, ‘Australia to spend $270b building larger military to prepare for 'poorer, more dangerous' world and rise of China’ ABC News (1 July 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘Coronavirus pandemic 'not even close' to being over, WHO warns’ (30 June 2020)

Lily KUO & Verna YU, ‘China passes controversial Hong Kong national security law’ The Guardian (30 June 2020)

Bat-Orgil ALTANKHUYAG & Fernando CASAL BÉRTOA, ‘Mongolia’s Dance with Democracy: Some Steps Back and Some Forward’ The Globe Post (30 June 2020)

James FALLOWS, ‘The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything’ The Atlantic (29 June 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus: Secrecy surrounds India PM Narendra Modi's '$1bn' Covid-19 fund’ (29 June 2020)

Bill WHITAKER, ‘How the coronavirus and politics could impact voting in the 2020 general election’ CBS News (28 June 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Poland presidential election heads for second round - exit poll’ (28 June 2020)

FRANCE 24, ‘Poland begins voting in presidential election delayed due to Covid-19’ (28 June 2020)

Maria WILCZEK, ‘Poland's presidential election: Five key questions answered’ Al-Jazeera (27 Jun 2020)

Sui-Lee WEE, Benjamin MUELLER & Emma BUBOLA, ‘How the world is learning to live with a deadly pandemic’ The New Daily (26 June 2020)

Gábor HALMAI & Kim Lane SCHEPPELE, ‘The Moment for Lies’ Euractiv (26 June 2020)

Nick BAKER, ‘As the United Nations turns 75, is it in crisis?’ SBS NEWS (26 June 2020)

James OLIPHANT, ‘Virus concerns prompt Democrats to hold largely virtual nominating convention’ The Jakarta Post (25 June 2020)

NEW STRAITS TIMES, 'Governments using Covid-19 to undermine democracy' (25 June 2020)

Luke BAKER, ‘Some countries using virus curbs to 'silence critics', ex-leaders warn’ Reuters (25 June 2020)

AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE, ‘Pro-democracy protests mark anniversary of Thai revolution’ (24 June 2020)

Chloe TAYLOR, ‘U.S. presidential election odds now firmly in Biden’s favor, EIU claims’ CNBC (24 June 2020)

Harry GUINNESS, ‘Opinion: building back better isn’t a leftist agenda, it’s one for the quiet Australians’ The Mandarin (23 June 2020)

Siktus HARSON, ‘Indonesian democracy falls victim to Covid-19’ UCA News (23 June 2020)

Daniel DALE, Tara SUBRAMANIAM, David WRIGHT & Holmes LYBRAND, ‘'Fact check: Trump's Tulsa rally littered with familiar false claims’ CNN (21 June 2020)

Galih GUMELAR, ‘So much work, so little time: KPU [Election Commission of Indonesia] under pressure over regional polls’ Jakarta Post (21 June 2020)

Alice TIDEY & Alessio DELL’ANNA, ‘Thousands take to the streets in Europe for fourth consecutive weekend of anti-racism protests’ Euronews (21 June 2020)

Robyn DIXON, ‘Russia uses prizes and patriotism to urge vote on changing constitution. But there is scant mention of keeping Putin in power’ Washington Post (21 June 2020)

Erin HANDLEY, ‘India has the fourth-highest number of COVID-19 cases, but the Government denies community transmission’ ABC News (20 June 2020)

Gloria DICKIE, ‘Trump vs. Biden: How COVID-19 Will Affect Voting for President’ Scientific American (19 June 2020)

Janet HOOK & Evan HALPER, ‘In Trump vs. Trump, the winner is Joe Biden’ Los Angeles Times (19 June 2020)

Hans VAN LEEUWEN, ‘Where did it all go wrong for Boris' Britain?’ Financial Review (19 June 2020)

Utpal BHASKAR, ‘PM Modi rules out any further lockdown, pitches for minimum restrictions’ LiveMint (18 June 2020)

James SHOTTER & Max SEDDON, ‘Belarusian opposition leader detained ahead of election’ Financial Times (18 June 2020)

Nadirsyah HOSEN, Jeremy J KINGSLEY & Tim LINDSEY, ‘Indonesia’s omnibus bill: typo or ‘mistaken instruction’?’ Indonesia at Melbourne (17 June 2020)

Dale SMITH, ‘A second wave of coronavirus: Is it here, how long it could last and more’ C-NET (17 June 2020)

9 NEWS, ‘Australia's Foreign Minister accuses China and Russia of 'infodemic' undermining democracy’ (17 June 2020)

VOA NEWS, ‘Malaysia Erases Two Years of Democratic Gains, Analysts Say’ (17 June 2020)

Adam HARANGOZÓ, ‘With the Stroke of a Pen Viktor Orbán and Emergency Rule-by-Decree in Hungary’ Visegrad Insight (16 June 2020)

Dirk KOTZE, ‘What Ramaphosa’s COVID-19 decisions say about South Africa’s democracy’ The Conversation (16 June 2020)

David SMITH, ‘Pandemic, what pandemic? Trump sees mass rallies as path to re-election’ The Guardian (14 June 2020)

Joanna GEORGE, ‘After Black Lives Matter, citizens’ assemblies can help protesters and politicians find solutions’ The Independent (14 June 2020)

Andrew RAWNSLEY, ‘Even Tories increasingly fear they have inflicted the worst of all worlds on Britain’ The Guardian (14 June 2020)

Rebecca RATCLIFFE, ‘Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam... How some countries kept Covid at bay’ The Guardian (14 June 2020)

Haroon SIDDIQUE & Denis CAMPBELL, ‘Chief nurse dropped from No 10 briefing 'for not backing Cummings'‘ The Guardian (13 June 2020)

DEMOCRACY NOW!, ‘Graves on Copacabana Beach Mark 40,000 COVID-19 Deaths in Brazil’ (12 June 2020)

Lily KUO & Helen DAVIDSON, ‘Zoom shuts accounts of activists holding Tiananmen Square and Hong Kong events’ The Guardian (12 June 2020)

Jordan HAYNE, ‘Black Lives Matter protests 'completely unacceptable', Scott Morrison says in call for demonstrators to be charged’ ABC News (12 June 2020)

Michelle GRATTAN, ‘View from The Hill: [Australian] Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account’ The Conversation (12 June 2020)

Adam TAYLOR, ‘The coronavirus pandemic isn’t ending — it’s surging’ Washington Post (11 June 2020)

Kenneth RAPOZA, ‘Brazil Really Might Be That Bad, But For How Much Longer?’ Forbes (11 June 2020)

Carl RHODES, ‘The Morrison Government's anti-democratic response to COVID-19’ Independent Australia (11 June 2020)

AL-JAZEERA, ‘Brazil restores coronavirus data after controversy, court ruling’ (10 June 2020)

Eduardo LEVY YEYATI & Andrés MALAMUD, ‘COVID-19 May Ultimately Strengthen Latin America’s Democracies, Not Destroy Them’ Americas Quarterly (10 June 2020)

Erin HANDLEY, ‘Hong Kong's activists and artists reflect on the past year of protest’ ABC News (10 June 2020)

Simon ROMERO, Letícia CASADO & Manuela ANDREONI, ‘Threat of Military Action Rattles Brazil as Virus Deaths Surge’ New York Times (10 June 2020)

Abdurrachman SATRIO, ‘Academic freedom under fire: constitutional law scholars threatened over impeachment talk’ Indonesia at Melbourne (9 June 2020)

John PESUTTO, ‘The bottom just fell out of social distancing in Victoria’ The Age (9 June 2020)

Joelle GROGAN, ‘Amid a Global Emergency, No Apparent Urgency to Conclude the Future EU-UK Agreement’ Brexit Institute News (9 June 2020)

Gabby BUSH & Kobi LEINS, ‘When Tools for a Health Emergency become Tools of Oppression’ Pursuit (8 June 2020)

RULE OF LAW IN POLAND, ‘Former CT judge Prof. Wyrzykowski: The presidential elections in Poland will be held under the pretence of legality’ (8 June 2020)

Dom PHILLIPS, ‘Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site’ The Guardian (8 June 2020)

THE WIRE, ‘More Than 7,000 People Have Died of COVID-19 in India So Far’ (8 June 2020)

Natalie HUET & Christopher PITCHERS, ‘Protests could lead to a second wave of coronavirus infections, experts say’ Euronews (8 June 2020)

Katharine MURPHY, ‘Transparency around government decision-making is another casualty of Covid-19’ The Guardian (6 June 2020)

Marie O’HALLORAN, ‘Senators will apply to High Court for judgment on Seanad [Senate] sitting’ Irish Times (6 June 2020)

Dan DE LUCE, ‘Retired diplomats, generals slam Trump over using U.S. military to 'intimidate' protesters’ NBC News (6 June 2020)

Kevin McKENNA, ‘Opinion: The British elite has failed utterly. It's time for Scotland to break free’ The Herald (6 June 2020)

Lane SAINTY, ‘Country Australia losing its voice: 'There wouldn't be a journalist within cooee'’ The Guardian (6 June 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘Black Lives Matter rallies held across Australia to protest against

ABC NEWS, ‘Black Lives Matter rallies held across Australia to protest against mistreatment and deaths of Indigenous people’ (6 June 2020)

Georgina MITCHELL & Michaela WHITBURN, ‘Court of Appeal rules Sydney Black Lives Matter protest is authorised’ Sydney Morning Herald (6 June 2020)

Katharine MURPHY, ‘Government refuses to release conflict-of-interest disclosures from Covid commission members’ The Guardian (5 June 2020)

Elle DUFFY, ‘More than half of Scots in favour of Scottish independence in new Panelbase poll’ The Herald (5 June 2020)

Jamie McKINNELL, Lily MAYERS & Emma ELSWORTHY, ‘NSW Supreme Court bans Sydney Black Lives Matter protest’ ABC News (5 June 2020)

Colin PACKHAM & Byron KAYE, ‘Citing COVID-19, Australia seeks to bar George Floyd protests’ Reuters (5 June 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘George Floyd protest to go ahead in Adelaide after SA Police grants coronavirus exemption’ (5 June 2020)

Jamelle BOUIE, ‘The Police Are Rioting. We Need to Talk About It’ The New York Times (5 June 2020)

USA TODAY, ‘George Floyd: Protests around the world show solidarity with US demonstrators’ (4 June 2020)

Jerome DORAISAMY, ‘Human rights law issues in wake of COVID-19’ Lawyers Weekly (Australia) (4 June 2020)

Tom Gerald DALY, ‘Why COVID-19 is Hitting Some Democracies Harder than Others’ Pursuit (3 June 2020)

John ALLEN, ‘A Moment of National Shame and Peril—and Hope’ Foreign Policy (3 June 2020)

Jeffrey GOLDBERG, ‘James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution’ The Atlantic (3 June 2020)

Tomas CASTANHEIRA, ‘Brazilian youth join international wave of protests against police violence’ WSWS (3 June 2020)

VOA NEWS, ‘Brazil Posts New Record of Coronavirus Deaths in Single Day’ (3 June 2020)

David CHOI, ‘'Lay down your arms, uphold your oath': Former military leaders and lawmakers resoundingly blast Trump's idea of deploying US troops on American streets’ Business Insider (3 June 2020)

Peter WALKER, ‘Boris Johnson declares himself 'very proud' of coronavirus response’ The Guardian (3 June 2020)

Nick EVERARD & Jenny KY, ‘Kevin Rudd criticises Donald Trump for ‘maximising’ divisive politics during US riots and COVID crisis’ 7 News (3 June 2020)

Max WALDEN, ‘Call for Australia to join Asia in coordinated approach to recovering from coronavirus’ ABC News (3 June 2020)

Hannah WHITE, ‘Forcing MPs back to Westminster reveals the government's real view of parliament’ The Guardian (3 June 2020)

Genevieve QUINTAL, ‘Court finds lockdown regulations invalid and unconstitutional’ Business Live (South Africa) (2 June 2020)

LA PRENSA LATINA, ‘‘Death is everyone’s destiny,’ Bolsonaro says on day of record COVID-19 toll’ (2 June 2020)

JimWATERSON, ‘Public trust in UK government over coronavirus falls sharply’ The Guardian (2 June 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus: Discrimination row over MPs queuing up to vote’ (2 June 2020)

Nick COHEN, ‘The lethal combination of Brexit and Covid’ The Spectator (2 June 2020)

Elizabeth KOLBERT, ‘How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus’ New Yorker (1 June 2020)

Toby HELM, ‘Tory poll lead collapses as voters say Cummings should go’ The Guardian (31 May 2020)

Rafael MORO MARTINS, ‘After a fight over control of Brazil's federal police, raids target Bolsonaro's political rivals’ The Intercept (31 May 2020)

Andrew CASTLE, ‘SAGE adviser insists [UK] government aren't following scientific advice’ LRB (30 May 2020)

Ben COLLINS & Brandy ZADROZNY, ‘Troll farms from North Macedonia and the Philippines pushed coronavirus disinformation on Facebook’ NBC News (30 May 2020)

Max WALDEN, ‘South Korea is likely to emerge from coronavirus a strong beacon for democracy’ ABC News (30 May 2020)

Andy MEEK, ‘Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate’ (30 May 2020)

THE JAKARTA POST, ‘‘We should not stop being democratic’: Govt insists on holding regional races in December’ (30 May 2020)

Max KOSLOWSKI, ‘'COAG is no more': National cabinet abolishes Council of Australian Governments’ Sydney Morning Herald (29 May 2020)

Jack HORGAN-JONES, ‘[President'] Higgins: ‘This is very, very different to 2008 ... we need radical thinking’’ Irish Times (29 May 2020)

Tatevik HAYRAPETYAN, ‘Covid-19 creates unique challenges for unrecognised territories: Can a post-pandemic world be more inclusive and democratic?’ Emerging Europe (29 May 2020)

DEMOCRACY NOW!, ‘As Pandemic Epicenter Shifts to Latin America, Gov’ts Use COVID-19 as Pretext for Police Repression’ (29 May 2020)

Lisa BRYANT, ‘Pandemic Underscores Tunisia's Rocky Road to Democracy’ Voa News (29 May 2020)

Christopher KNAUS, ‘State parliaments passed 547 new Covid-related measures with less than usual oversight’ The Guardian (28 May 2020)

Alexander BAUNOV, ‘Where Is Russia’s Strongman in the Coronavirus Crisis?’ Foreign Policy (27 May 2020)

Matthew KNOTT, ‘Mourning in America: a divided nation struggles to grieve 100,000 dead’ The Age (27 May 2020)

James A. GOLDSTON, ‘How Courts Will Shape the Post-Pandemic World’ Project Syndicate (26 May 2020)

Ricardo BRITO & Rodrigo VIGA GAIER, ‘Brazil police raid Rio governor's residences amid COVID-19 probe’ Reuters (26 May 2020)

Marina HYDE, ‘The truth about why Cummings hasn't gone: Johnson is too terrified to sack him’ The Guardian (26 May 2020)

Jonathan SUMPTION, ‘Lord Sumption: the only coherent position is locking down without limit—or not locking down at all’ Prospect (26 May 2020)

Samuel STOLTON, ‘International calls rise against China’s clampdown in Hong Kong’ Euractiv (25 May 2020)

Gabriella RAZZANO, ‘Covid-19 — why a mysterious disease shouldn’t result in mysterious decisions’ Daily Maverick (South Africa) (25 May 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘More than 180 Hong Kongers arrested after protests’ (25 May 2020)

Tom PHILLIPS, ‘Jair Bolsonaro branded a 'killer' during hotdog trip as Covid-19 death toll soars’ The Guardian (25 May 2020)

Thomas POOLE, ‘A new relationship between power and liberty’ Prospect (23 May 2020)

COVID-DEM EXCLUSIVE Sonia MAZEY & Jeremy RICHARDSON, ‘Will We be So Lucky Next Time? Government and Politics Post COVID-19’ COVID-DEM (22 May 2020)

Vivian WANG & Austin RAMZY, ‘Hong Kong Protest Movement Left Reeling by China’s Power Grab’ New York Times (22 May 2020)

Tae Hoon KIM, ‘Why Sweden is unlikely to make a U-turn on its controversial Covid-19 strategy’ The Guardian (22 May 2020)

Ilan NOY, ‘Rich and poor don’t recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge’ The Conversation (22 May 2020)

Pascale TROUILLAUD, ‘Brazil passes 20,000 virus deaths after record 24-hour toll’ Agence France-Presse (22 May 2020)

Ciara NUGENT, ‘Brazil Is Starting to Lose the Fight Against Coronavirus—and Its President Is Looking the Other Way’ Time (21 May 2020)

Travis WALDRON, ‘Brazil Is The New Epicenter Of The Global Coronavirus Pandemic’ Huffington Post (21 May 2020)

Yascha MOUNK, ‘After the Coronavirus, Prepare for the Roaring Twenties’ The Atlantic (21 May 2020)

Afua HIRSCH, ‘Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked?’ The Guardian (21 May 2020)

Bhanu JOSHI & Shamindra NATH ROY, ‘Dealing with Covid-19 requires more democracy, less bureaucracy’ Indian Express (21 May 2020)

Thulasi K. RAJ, ‘State's labour law changes impact right to association’ The Statesman (India) (21 May 2020)

Rafiqa QURRATA A’YUN & Abdil MUGHIS MUDHOFFIR, ‘Covid-19 crisis deepens illiberalism in Indonesia’ Indonesia at Melbourne (20 May 2020)

David LITT, ‘The Coronavirus Crisis in the U.S. Is a Failure of Democracy’ Time (20 May 2020)

David HETHERINGTON, ‘A new normal? Instead Australia looks like it could return to 'business as usual' after the pandemic’ The Guardian (20 May 2020)

George PERETZ, ‘Why fuller scrutiny of the Covid-19 legislation is essential—not just a “nice to have”’ Prospect (19 May 2020)

Mariana MAZZUCATO & Giulio QUAGGIOTTO, ‘The Big Failure of Small Government’ Project Syndicate (19 May 2020)

Alexander GILLESPIE, ‘Are New Zealand’s new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?’ The Conversation (19 May 2020)

Omer BARTOV, ‘COVID-19 is magnifying ‘the politics of division’’ Zócalo Public Square (19 May 2020)

Sruthisagar YAMUNAN, ‘As Supreme Court fails to protect migrant workers’ rights, High Courts show the way’ Scroll.In (18 May 2020)

Kurt IVESON, ‘The trade-offs ‘smart city’ apps like COVIDSafe ask us to make go well beyond privacy’ The Conversation (18 May 2020)

Amanda MEADE, ‘More than 150 Australian newsrooms shut since January 2019 as Covid-19 deepens media crisis’ The Guardian (18 May 2020)

Andrea CARSON, ‘Trust in quality news outlets strong during coronavirus pandemic’ The Conversation (18 May 2020)

THE TIMES OF INDIA, ‘Lockdown 4.0: What the states want’ (17 May 2020)

Gareth HUTCHENS, ‘Some analysts warned of the economic impacts of a pandemic like COVID-19. Here's what they think might happen next’ ABC News (17 May 2020)

Jill COLVIN, ‘Obama criticizes virus response in online graduation speech’ Associated Press (17 May 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘America’s far right is energised by covid-19 lockdowns’ (17 May 2020 edition)

Stephen HOLMES & Ivan KRASTEV, ‘Authoritarian leaders thrive on crises. So why do wannabe tyrants fear the plague?’ The Globe and Mail (16 May 2020)

Fiach KELLY, ‘General election during crisis could see voting spread over days’ Irish Times (16 May 2020)

Steven SWINFORD, Francis ELLIOTT & Oliver WRIGHT, ‘Coronavirus: Michael Gove makes himself the spider in a changing government web’ The Sunday Times (16 May 2020)

Matt NIPPERT, ‘No time for a trial run': Inside story of how NZ fought pandemic’ NZ Herald (16 May 2020)

Mary HUI, ‘While the world wasn’t looking, Beijing re-wrote the rules in Hong Kong at startling speed’ Quartz (15 May 2020)

Peter HARTCHER, ‘China can't bully us into submission: the PM has Australians' backing’ Sydney Morning Herald (15 May 2020)

Julian BORGER et al., ‘World looks on in horror as Trump flails over pandemic despite claims US leads’ The Guardian (15 May 2020)

Francesco GUARASCIO, ‘Virus-tracing apps must not be used for mass surveillance: EU says’ Reuters (14 May 2020)

THE NEW DAILY, ‘[Australian] Parliament passes more protection for COVIDSafe tracing app data’ (14 May 2020)

Laura SPINNEY, ‘The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19’ The Guardian (14 May 2020)

Felix SCHLAGWEIN, ‘Hungary is no longer a democracy,' says Hungarian legal scholar’ Deutsche Welle (14 May 2020)

Finbar O’MALLON & Matt COUGHLAN, ‘Federal parliament restores sittings plan’ Yahoo! News (14 May 2020)

Martin KETTLE, ‘Boris Johnson looks increasingly like the prime minister of England alone’ The Guardian (14 May 2020)

Luca BELGIORNO-NETTIS, ‘Opinion: a new window has opened for deliberative democracy’ The Mandarin (13 May 2020)

Greg BARNS, ‘New ASIO law one more step towards a totalitarian state’ Sydney Morning Herald (13 May 2020)

Esther WEBBER, ‘Rees-Mogg tells MPs to ‘set example’ with return to parliament’ The Times (13 May 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus: Brazil records highest daily rise in deaths’ (13 May 2020)

Laras SUSANTI, ‘Taking Jokowi to court over Covid-19: is the government liable?’ Indonesia at Melbourne (12 May 2020)

UK PARLIAMENT, ‘MPs cast first ever remote votes in Commons Chamber’ (12 May 2020)

Matthew ZEITLIN, ‘What Americans Need to Understand About the Swedish Coronavirus Experiment’ Gen (12 May 2020)

Duncan GRIEVE, ‘The epic story of NZ’s communications-led fight against Covid-19’ The Spinoff (11 May 2020)

Christopher KNAUS, ‘Calls to end ‘undemocratic’ adjournment of [Australian] parliament’ The Guardian (11 May 2020)

Deepankar BASU & Priyanka SRIVASTAVA, ‘COVID-19 Data in South Asia Shows India is Doing Worse than Its Neighbours’ The Wire (11 May 2020)

Barbara MOENS, ‘The Flemish nationalist exit strategy’ Politico (11 May 2020)

Stan GRANT, ‘Has coronavirus shown us the limits of democracy, as life in the West mimics China?’ ABC News (10 May 2020)

Uri FRIEDMAN, ‘Brazil’s Pandemic Is Just Beginning’ The Atlantic (10 May 2020)

Anna PATTY, ‘Australians less ideological about COVID lockdown than Americans’ Sydney Morning Herald (10 May 2020)

James GLENDAY, ‘Barack Obama labels Donald Trump's coronavirus response a 'chaotic disaster'‘ ABC News (10 May 2020)

Simon TISDALL, ‘Covid-19: isolated and alone, Britain has become the sick man of Europe’ The Guardian (10 May 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘Covid-19 has given most world leaders a temporary rise in popularity’ (9 May 2020 edition)

THE LANCET, ‘COVID-19 in Brazil: “So what?”’ (9 May 2020)

Eugenia LIM, ‘Members of Parliament connect with residents online amid COVID-19 outbreak | Video’ Channel News Asia (9 May 2020)

Larry DONNELLY, ‘Larry Donnelly: Has America finally had enough of Trump?’ The Journal (9 May 2020)

RNZ, ‘Covid-19: [New Zealand] Government releases hundreds of documents on its response’ (8 May 2020)

Tara HAELLE, ‘Why It’s Important To Push Back On ‘Plandemic’—And How To Do It’ Forbes (8 May 2020)

Margaret MacMILLAN. ‘Making history: How a pandemic took the world by surprise’ The Globe & Mail (8 May 2020)

Wendy H. WONG, ‘Technology threatens human rights in the coronavirus fight’ The Conversation (8 May 2020)

SY QURAISHI, ‘Conducting elections during a pandemic’ The Hindu (8 May 2020)

Patrick HOWELL O’NEILL, ‘India is forcing people to use its covid app, unlike any other democracy’ MIT Technology Review (7 May 2020)

THE LOCAL DK, ‘Denmark to reopen shops, cafés and schools in new political deal’ (7 May 2020)

David RITTER, ‘Democracy and COVID’ Pro Bono Australia (7 May 2020)

Steven FELDSTEIN, ‘What Democracy Will Fall Next?’ Foreign Policy (7 May 2020)

Rutger BREGMAN, ‘The Moment to Change the World Is Right Now’ Time (7 May 2020)

Michelle GRATTAN, ‘Grattan on Friday: The delicate art of political distancing during the pandemic’ The Conversation (7 May 2020)

Caroline FISHER, Joe YOUNG LEE, Kieran McGUINNESS & Sora PARK, ‘Coronavirus ‘news fatigue’ starts to bite for Australians in lockdown’ The Conversation (6 May 2020)

Nick CORASANITI & Stephanie SAUL, ‘16 States Have Postponed Primaries During the Pandemic. Here’s a List’ New York Times (5 May 2020)

Sarah JOSEPH, ‘A timeline of COVID 19 and Human Rights: Derogations in time of public emergency’ Griffith News (5 May 2020)

AL-JAZEERA, ‘Fauci dismisses Trump's coronavirus Wuhan lab claims’ (5 May 2020)

Josh TAYLOR, ‘Covidsafe app: how Australia’s coronavirus contact tracing app works, what it does, downloads and problems’ The Guardian (5 May 2020)

Andrew FISHMAN, ‘Brazil's President goes to war with democratic institutions - and hopes the military has his back’ The Intercept (5 May 2020)

Naomi NEILSON, ‘Inquiry to examine executive-made pandemic laws’ Lawyers Weekly (Australia) (4 May 2020)

Angela SKUJINS, ‘Protesting under lockdown: How isolation is affecting public activism’ City Mag (Australia) (4 May 2020)

Ilaria Maria SALA, ‘Covid-19 was a chance for a reset in Hong Kong. Instead, the crackdown continues’ The Guardian (4 May 2020)

Josef BENEDICT, ‘World Press Freedom Day: The Assault on Media Freedom in Asia Worsens During COVID-19 Pandemic’ Inter Press Service (4 May 2020)

Michael KOZIOL, ‘The incredible shrinking opposition or the shrewd alternative government?’ The Age (Australia) (3 May 2020)

Max KOSLOWSKI, ‘Half of us say we support the COVIDSafe app, but only 16 per cent have downloaded it’ The Age (Australia) (3 May 2020)

Steven ERLANGER, ‘Global Backlash Builds Against China Over Coronavirus’ New York Times (3 May 2020)

Bevan SHIELDS, ‘'Biggest failure in a generation': Where did Britain go wrong?’ Sydney Morning Herald (3 May 2020)

Caroline WHEELER, ‘Coronavirus lockdown: scientists challenge No 10 with rival advice on Covid‑19’ The Sunday Times (3 May 2020)

SY QURAISHI, ‘Across the World, the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Become an Invitation to Autocracy’ The Wire (India) (3 May 2020)

Nick COHEN, ‘The British charlatan style has been sent packing by too much reality’ The Guardian (3 May 2020)

Mark KENNY & Mark EVANS, ‘Is our democracy due for an upgrade?’ Canberra Times (2 May 2020)

Angela JUNG, ‘'Scrutiny makes for better decisions': Democracy watchdog urges all parliaments to reopen amidst COVID-19 crisis’ CTV News (2 May 2020)

Robert BELLAFIORE JR., ‘Will COVID-19 radicalize young people forever? Don't count on it’ The Hill (2 May 2020)

Jumel Gabilan ESTRAÑERO & Maria Kristina DECENA SIUAGAN, ‘COVID-19: This is why China is set to become next superpower’ Global Village Space (2 May 2020)

Charles DUNST, ‘Western democracy’s problem with authority makes it more vulnerable to Covid-19’ Quartz (2 May 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Coronavirus: Ireland and UK opt for different tracing approaches’ (1 May 2020)

Tom PARFITT, ‘Vladimir Putin faces ‘biggest crisis’ of his 20-year rule’ Sunday Times (1 May 2020)

Ernesto LONDOÑO, Letícia CASADO & Manuela ANDREONI, ‘Bolsonaro Fights for Survival, Turning to Empowered Military Elders’ New York Times (1 May 2020)

Peter BAKER, ‘Trump Moves to Replace Watchdog Who Identified Critical Medical Shortages’ New York Times (1 May 2020)

Gina GUSTAVSSON, ‘Has Sweden's coronavirus strategy played into the hands of nationalists?’ The Guardian (1 May 2020)

Thomas COUGHLAN, ‘[New Zealand] Parliament passes the wrong law in an afternoon of urgent lawmaking’ (1 May 2020)

Zachary ABUZA, ‘COVID-19 and the Fate of Indonesian Democracy’ Australia/Israel Review (1 May 2020)

Lee MORGENBESSER, ‘Autocrats Are Finding Democratic Facades Hard to Keep Up’ Foreign Policy (1 May 2020)

Nadia DALY, ‘A 'pandemic drone' and other technology could help limit the spread of coronavirus and ease restrictions sooner, but at what cost?’ ABC News (1 May 2020)

Niall FERGUSON, ‘Who will win the corona wars?’ USA Spectator (May 2020 edition)

Emily CZACHOR, ‘National Guard Protecting Maryland's Coronavirus Tests in Undisclosed Location so Federal Government Can’t Seize Them’ Newsweek (30 April 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Polish state becoming authoritarian, top judge Gersdorf says’ (30 April 2020)

Agustina GIRAUDY, Sara NIEDZWIECKI & Jennifer PRIBBLE, ‘How Political Science Explains Countries’ Reactions to COVID-19’ Americas Quarterly (30 April 2020)

Munsif VENGATTIL, ‘Clash of titans: Zuckerberg praises COVID-19 lockdowns; Musk sees 'fascism'’ WA Today (30 April 2020)

EUROPEAN WESTERN BAlKANS, ‘BiEPAG: Pandemic has contributed to democratic erosion in the Western Balkans’ (30 April 2020)

Joshua KEATING, ‘The Decline of the Nation-State’ Slate (29 April 2020)

Iain MARLOW, ‘Taiwan Emerging From Pandemic With a Stronger Hand Against China’ Bloomberg (29 April 2020)

Thulasi K. RAJ, Equality fault-lines exposed by virus' The Statesman (India) (29 April 2020)

JAKARTA POST, ‘Fight COVID-19, not critics’ (29 April 2020)

David SHRIBMAN, ‘Can U.S. lawmakers live with remote democracy in the age of COVID-19?’ The Globe and Mail (29 April 2020)

Guy RUNDLE, ‘Parliaments must reopen to debate the reopening of Australia’ Crikey Inq (29 April 2020)

SWISSINFO, ‘Swiss direct democracy to resume in September with packed agenda’ (29 April 2020)

Alex DEAN, ‘Former Clerk of the House: I have never seen legislation like this before’ Prospect Magazine (28 April 2020)

Christopher KNAUS, ‘Hybrid parliament needed to safeguard Australian democracy during Covid-19 crisis’ The Guardian (28 April 2020)

Richard GRAHAM & Rushanara ALI, ‘Coronavirus: democracy is part of the prescription’ The Times (28 April 2020)

ABC NEWS, ‘Government's coronavirus tracing app released, Health Minister says misusing data could result in jail’ (27 April 2020)

Jonathan SRI, ‘Why I won’t be installing the COVID-19 surveillance app’ Green Left (27 April 2020)

Joo-Cheong THAM, ‘COVID-19 ministerial powers need to be reined in’ Canberra Times (27 April 2020)

Cassy RODDY-MULLINEAUX, ‘Why We Need Feminist Leadership in a Pandemic (And Beyond)’ Stand (27 April 2020)

Maayan LUBELL, ‘Israel's top court says government must legislate COVID-19 phone-tracking’ Reuters (27 April 2020)

Jon STOKES & Stefan STERN, ‘Boris Johnson needs to show a ‘post-heroic’ style of leadership now’ The Conversation (27 April 2020)

Heather STEWART, ‘We will not publish who is on scientific advisory group, says Raab’ The Guardian (26 April 2020)

SBS NEWS, ‘Australian government launches controversial coronavirus tracing app amid privacy concerns’ (26 April 2020)

Ryan SMITH, ‘COVID-19 sees Victorian democracy fail behind closed doors’ (25 April 2020)

George PACKER, ‘We Are Living in a Failed State’ The Atlantic (Special Preview: June 2020 Issue)

Udit BHATIA, ‘Debate: Inclusion, Not Epistocracy, Is What Will Make India a Stronger Democracy’ The Wire (25 April 2020)

Jan-Werner MÜLLER, ‘There is no point talking to Trump. We need to talk past him’ The Guardian (25 April 2020)

Fintan O’TOOLE, ‘Donald Trump has destroyed the country he promised to make great again’ The Irish Times (25 April 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘Covid-19 exposes flaws in Britain’s good-times government’ (25 April edition)

Alex HERN, ‘Surveillance a price worth paying to beat coronavirus, says Blair thinktank’ The Guardian (25 April 2020)

Madeline ROACHE, ‘Where's Putin? Russia's President Stays Out of Sight as Coronavirus Hits Economy’ Time (24 April 2020)

David HARVEY, ‘David Harvey: We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of Coronavirus’ Jacobin (24 April 2020)

Frank BRUNI, ‘Injections of Bleach? Beams of Light? Trump Is Self-Destructing Before Our Eyes’ New York Times (24 April 2020)

Linton BESSER & Dylan WELCH, ‘Australia's coronavirus tracing app's data storage contract goes offshore to Amazon’ ABC News (24 April 2020)

Paul KARP, ‘Government refuses police request for access to Australian coronavirus contact tracing app’ The Guardian (23 April 2020)

Jan CIENSKI, ‘A Polish recipe for cooking an election’ Politico (23 April 2020)

Archon FUNG, ‘COVID-19 Requires More Democracy, Not Less’ Boston Review (23 April 2020)

KING’S COLLEGE LONDON NEWS CENTRE, ‘Paper reveals impact of COVID-19 on trust in governments’ (23 April 2020) * Find the full paper in the Policy Section

Frida GHITIS, ‘China Seizes on COVID-19 to Try and Crush Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement’ World Politics Review (23 April 2020)

THE ECONOMIST, ‘Would-be autocrats are using covid-19 as an excuse to grab more power’ (23 April 2020)

Mandeep TIWANA, ‘Reimagining a Post COVID World: Key Principles for the Future’ Interpress Service (23 April 2020)

Orhan PAMUK, ‘What the Great Pandemic Novels Teach Us’ New York Times (23 April 2020)

Wojciech PRZYBYLSKI, ‘Kaczyński versus the People’ Visegrad Insight (23 April 2020)

Steven ERLANGER, ‘Poland and Hungary Use Coronavirus to Punish Opposition’ New York Times (22 April 2020)

Kenneth ROTH, ‘Stopping the authoritarian rot in Europe’ EUobserver (23 April 2020)

Joshua KEATING, ‘Strongman Medicine: China Cracks Down on Hong Kong Under Cover of COVID’ Slate (23 April 2020)

Laura ROSENBERGER, ‘China’s Coronavirus Information Offensive’ Foreign Affairs (22 April 2020)

Sameer YASIR, ‘India Is Scapegoating Muslims for the Spread of the Coronavirus’ Foreign Policy (22 April 2020)

Avani BANSAL, ‘The COVID-19 Crisis Tells Us Democracy Needs Expertise as Much as it Does Elections’ The Wire (India) (22 April 2020)

Sarah MOULDS, ‘Pandemic and human rights: watching over the watchdogs’ In Daily (22 April 2020)

Eric LUTZ, ‘Peter Thiel’s Creepy Tech Firm Is Helping The Government Track Coronavirus’ Vanity Fair (22 April 2020)

Anna CALTHAUS, Interview: ‘Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19: 'The biggest danger is not the virus itself' Deutsche Welle (22 April 2020)

Jarni BLAKKARLY, ‘Why Australian white supremacists and neo-Nazis are 'delighted' with the coronavirus outbreak’ SBS News (21 April 2020)

Tom PHILLIPS, ‘Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denounced for joining pro-dictatorship rally’ The Guardian (21 April 2020)

Carrie DANN, ‘Two-thirds of voters back vote-by-mail in November 2020’ NBC News (21 April 2020)

ASSOCIATED PRESS, ‘Officials Link 7 Wisconsin Coronavirus Cases To In-Person Voting’ (21 April 2020)

Matt HONEYCOMBE-FOSTER, ‘[UK] MPs set to give green light to plans for 'virtual' House of Commons as coronavirus curbs continue’ Politics Home (21 April 2020)

Polly TOYNBEE, ‘Boris Johnson is the wrong man in the wrong job at the wrong time’ The Guardian (20 April 2020)

RTE NEWS, ‘[Irish] High Court told State to oppose challenge against Covid-19 laws’ (21 April 2020)

Francesca RATTI and others, ‘By surrendering to autocracy in the fight against COVID-19, Hungary poisons European ideals’ Euractiv (20 April 2020)

Victor PICKARD, ‘Coronavirus Is Hammering the News Industry. Here’s How to Save It’ Jacobin Magazine (20 April 2020)

RTE NEWS, ‘The implications of the Covid crisis for democracy’ (20 April 2020)

Uri FRIEDMAN, ‘New Zealand's Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet’ The Atlantic (19 April 2020)

Josh BREINER, ‘Two Thousand Israelis Brave Coronavirus Fears to Protest Assault on Democracy’ Haaretz (19 April 2020)

Ursula PERANO, ‘Thousands of Israelis maintain social distancing while protesting Netanyahu’ Axios (19 April 2020)

Mariusz JAŁOSZEWSKI and Agata SZCZEŚNIAK, ‘The National Electoral Commission deprived of its powers in Poland’ The Rule of Law in Poland (19 April 2020)

Jonathan CALVERT, George ARBUTHNOTT & Jonathan LEAKE, ‘Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster’ The Times (19 April 2020)

Fergus HUNTER, ‘Scott Morrison rules out making virus tracing app mandatory’ The Age (18 April 2020)

Matthew KNOTT, ‘Trump goes to war with the states over lockdowns and calls on people to rise up in protest’ Sydney Morning Herald (18 April 2020)

John FRITZE & David JACKSON, ‘Trump calls to 'liberate' states where protesters have demanded easing coronavirus lockdowns’ USA Today (17 April 2020)

Nic CHEESEMAN, ‘The pandemic is being used to erode democratic freedoms. Civil society must fight back’ Mail & Guardian (17 April 2020)

Paul KARP, ‘Committee to review Australia's coronavirus response expects 'maximum cooperation' The Guardian (17 April 2020)

John DELURY, ‘How Democracy Won the World’s First Coronavirus Election’ New York Times (17 April 2020)

Ronald BROWNSTEIN, ‘An Unprecedented Divide Between Red and Blue America’ The Atlantic (16 April 2020)

Gabriel H. SANCHEZ, ‘These Pictures Show Crowds Protesting Against Coronavirus Lockdowns At State Capitols’ Buzzfeed News (16 April 2020)

Daniel TILLES, ‘Kaczyński: coronavirus exposed “EU’s weakness” and Polish opposition “does not accept democracy”’ Notes from Poland (16 April 2020)

Samuel CLOWES HUNEKE, ‘An End to Totalitarianism’ Boston Review (16 April 2020)

Anna NORYSKIEWICZ, ‘Fears of eroding democracy in Eastern Europe as Poland's government pushes for a coronavirus election’ CBS News (16 April 2020)

Stephanie DALZELL & Andrew PROBYN, ‘Convincing Australians to use government-sponsored coronavirus-tracing app a tough ask’ ABC News (16 April 2020)

Alexander GILLESPIE, ‘Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases’ The Conversation (16 April 2020)

Michael GREEN & Evan S. MEDEIROS, ‘The Pandemic Won’t Make China the World’s Leader’ Foreign Affairs (15 April 2020)

Constanze STELZENMÜLLER, ‘Coronavirus is also a threat to democratic constitutions’ Financial Times (15 April 2020)

Richard DENNISS, ‘How long the lockdown lasts is not just a medical question – it's a democratic one’ The Guardian (15 April 2020)

Piotr BURAS, ‘First Hungary, now Poland. It’s time for Europeans to speak out against COVID-19 power grabs’ Euronews (15 April 2020)

Steven FRIEDMAN, ‘Unravelling why some democracies – but not all – are better at fighting pandemics’ The Conversation (15 April 2020)

Adam KASSIE ABEBE, ‘Commentary: Ethiopia’s Postponed Elections: Governing in the Interregnum’ Addis Standard (14 April 2020)

Isaac CHOTINER, ‘How Democrats Won Big in Wisconsin’ The New Yorker (14 April 2020)

Kevin LIPTAK & Jason HOFFMAN, ‘Trump lashes out in grievance-filled briefing claiming 'total' authority as president’ CNN (14 April 2020)

Malcolm FARR & Daniel HURST, ‘Australian government plans to bring in mobile phone app to track people with coronavirus’ The Guardian (14 April 2020)

Jonathan PEARLMAN, ‘Coronavirus: Australia's political foes drop partisanship in rare show of unity’ Straits Times (14 April 2020)

Greg TORODE & James POMFRET, ‘Special Report: Hong Kong judges battle Beijing over rule of law as pandemic chills protests’ Reuters (14 April 2020)

Maria RESSA, ‘We Can't Let the Virus Infect Democracy’ Time (14 April 2020)

Matthew KNOTT, ‘We don't have a king': Trump, governors in epic power struggle’ Sydney Morning Herald (14 April 2020)

Joo-Cheong THAM, ‘Democracy remains essential in the COVID-19 pandemic’ Canberra Times (13 April 2020)

Gabriela HORN, Julia DAUKSZA, Konrad SZCZYGIEŁ & Eva KUBÁNIOVÁ, ‘Coronavirus Offers an Opportunity for a Power Grab’ Vsquare (13 April 2020)

Stephen M. WALT, ‘The United States Is Getting Infected With Dictatorship’ Foreign Policy (13 April 2020)

Yanzhong HUANG, ‘Xi Jinping Won the Coronavirus Crisis’ Foreign Affairs (13 April 2020)

Steven SWINFORD, ‘Coronavirus: MPs will sit (quietly) in a virtual House’ The Times (13 April 2020)

Tom PHILLIPS & Dom PHILLIPS, ‘ Bolsonaro dragging Brazil towards coronavirus calamity, experts fear’ The Guardian (13 April 2020)

Nicholas GOLDBERG, ‘Column: We got unlucky on COVID-19. The wrong man is in charge during a once-in-a-lifetime crisis’ Los Angeles Times (12 April 2020)

Rebecca SPEARE-COLE, ‘Cross-party MPs unite to demand urgent recall of [Westminster] Parliament to scrutinise Government's coronavirus response’ Evening Standard (12 April 2020)

Alberto NARDELLI, ‘The Coronavirus Hit Germany And The UK Just Days Apart But The Countries Have Responded Differently. Here’s How’ Buzzfeed News (12 April 2020)

Trevor HANCOCK, ‘A tale of two futures — let’s choose the right one this time’ Times Colonist (12 April 2020)

Laura THORNTON, ‘How does democracy work six feet apart?’ Caucasian Journal (11 April 2020)

Patrick WINTOUR, ‘Coronavirus: who will be winners and losers in new world order?’ The Guardian (11 April 2020)

Bello, ‘Jair Bolsonaro isolates himself, in the wrong way’ The Economist (11 April 2020 edition)

Tae Hoon KIM, ‘Why is South Korea beating coronavirus? Its citizens hold the state to account’ The Guardian (11 April 2020)

Greg NYILASY, ‘Fake News in the Age of COVID-19’ Pursuit (University of Melbourne) (10 April 2020)

Elizabeth GOITEIN & Andrew BOYLE, ‘Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren’t Allowed to Know About’ (10 April 2020)

Jonathan CHAIT, ‘Trump Wants to Reopen the Economy Because He’s Panicking About Reelection Polls’ New York Magazine (10 April 2020)

Rajeev SYAL, ‘House of Lords to conduct some duties online when parliament reopens’ The Guardian (10 April 2020)

Paul KRUGMAN, ‘American Democracy May Be Dying’ The New York Times (9 April 2020)

Nathalie TOCCI, ‘How coronavirus will upturn the global order’ Politico (9 April 2020)

David GILBERT, ‘These 30 Regimes Are Using Coronavirus to Repress Their Citizens’ Vice News (9 April 2020)

Ivan PIJOOS, ‘Fake news, be gone! SA [South Africa] one of world's most reliable for Covid-19 news’ The Times (9 April 2020)

Morgan MEAKER & Dimtiri TOKMETZIS, ‘Keeping watch: help us track coronavirus surveillance around the world’ The Correspondent (9 April 2020)

Diego CUPOLO, ‘Turkish pandemic plan raises concerns over citizens' digital rights’ Al-Monitor (9 April 2020)

Sándor ZSIROS, ‘Coronavirus: an unprecedented challenge to democracy?’ Euronews (9 April 2020)

Amichai MAGEN, ‘Orban's authoritarian overreach’ Jerusalem Post (9 April 2020)

Indi SAMARAJIVA, ‘How A Healthy Democracy Fights Epidemics Legal lessons from South Korea’ Medium (9 April 2020)

Jamie DETTMER, ‘In Global Life-Death Struggle, Democracy Changes Course’ VOA (9 April 2020)

Kaleeswaram RAJ, ‘Freedom in the time of COVID-19’ The New Indian Express (8 April 2020)

Asanga WELIKALA & Suren FERNANDO, ‘Balancing efficiency with law and liberty: Dealing with the pandemic without democratic backsliding’ Daily FT (8 April 2020)

Billy PERRIGO, ‘White Supremacist Groups Are Recruiting With Help From Coronavirus – and a Popular Messaging App’ Time (8 April 2020)

Toby MANHIRE, ‘Almost 90% of New Zealanders back Ardern government on Covid-19 – poll’ The Spinoff (8 April 2020)

Edward SANTOW, ‘We must combat Covid-19 but creeping authoritarianism could do more harm than good’ The Guardian (8 April 2020)

Robertus ROBET, ‘Is democracy a help or a hindrance in fighting pandemics?’ Indonesia at Melbourne (8 April 2020)

Daniel FINKELSTEIN, ‘Are we witnessing end of the American era?’ The Times (8 April 2020)

Allison PEARSON, ‘We need you, Boris – your health is the health of the nation’ The Telegraph (7 April 2020)

Molly OLMSTEAD, ‘Five Wisconsin Voters on What It Feels Like to Vote in a Pandemic’ Slate (7 April 2020)

Adam CANCRYN, ‘Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system’ Politico (7 April 2020)

Raymond E. VICKERY, Jr., ‘The US and India Should lead the Defense of Democracy in the COVID–19 Crisis’ The Diplomat (7 April 2020)

Renáta UITZ, ‘The EU needs to stop funding Viktor Orbán’s emergency rule’ Euronews (7 April 2020)

Kori SCHAKE, ‘The Imperial Presidency Comes to a Sudden Halt’ The Atlantic (7 April 2020)

Miles PARKS, ‘Sen. Elizabeth Warren Calls For National Voting Overhaul’ NPR (7 April 2020)

Charles EDEL, ‘Coronavirus has changed the US election race — and Donald Trump has lost his rally advantage’ ABC News (7 April 2020)

Michelle GRATTAN, 'Scott Morrison indicates ‘eliminating’ COVID-19 would come at too high a cost' The Conversation (7 April 2020)

MP & Senator Group, ‘Cross-party oversight is crucial for Australia's response to the coronavirus pandemic’ Canberra Times (7 April 2020)

BBC NEWS, ‘Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen’ (7 April 2020)

Tom GINSBURG & Mila VERSTEEG, ‘Can Emergency Powers Go Too Far?’ Tablet Mag (7 April 2020)

Nicholas WRIGHT, ‘Coronavirus and the Future of Surveillance: Democracies Must Offer an Alternative to Authoritarian Solutions’ Foreign Affairs (6 April 2020)

Sally YOUNG, ‘During the Great Depression, many newspapers betrayed their readers. Some are doing it again now’ The Conversation (6 April 2020)

Malcolm FARR & Paul KARP, ‘Labor to protest parliament shutdown and push for review of Covid-19 response’ The Guardian (6 April 2020)

Rose JACKSON, ‘We need Parliament for crises like this one’ Sydney Morning Herald (6 April 2020)

Dani RODRIK, ‘Will COVID-19 Remake the World?’ (6 April 2020)

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