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Susan Stokes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Faculty Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy. She is the author, most recently, of the forthcoming Trash-Talking Democracy: Why Leaders Erode Their Democracies and How to Stop Them (Princeton University Press, 2025).

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  1. Inequality Spurs Democratic Backsliding
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    Inequality Spurs Democratic Backsliding

    Jul 11, 2024 Susan Stokes shows that countries with fairer economies are less likely to succumb to authoritarian populism.

  2. Neutralizing Trump’s Big Lies
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    Neutralizing Trump’s Big Lies

    Jun 27, 2023 Susan Stokes sees reason to believe that even Republican voters can be persuaded to face facts.

  3. No Impunity for Insurrectionists
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    No Impunity for Insurrectionists

    Jan 10, 2023 Susan Stokes explains why indicting former leaders like Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump is both right and necessary.

  4. The Global Struggle for Democracy Is in Ukraine
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    The Global Struggle for Democracy Is in Ukraine

    Mar 4, 2022 Susan Stokes hopes that Russia’s invasion will instill a renewed sense of common purpose among free societies.

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    America’s “HIP” Economy

    Todd G. Buchholz sees developments and breakthroughs in health, information, and power as grounds for optimism.
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    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

    Andrés Velasco reflects on the tragic fate of the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
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    The Global Divide Over the Ukraine War

    Brahma Chellaney urges all parties to adopt a realistic approach to a deadlocked conflict and negotiate accordingly.
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    Europe Confronts the Ghosts of History

    Shlomo Ben-Ami highlights just how profound a transformation European – especially German – rearmament represents.
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    Trump’s Self-Inflicted Trade Disaster

    Kaushik Basu

    US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have triggered a wave of retaliatory measures, setting off a trade war with key partners and raising fears of a global downturn. But while Trump’s protectionism and erratic policy shifts could have far-reaching implications, the greatest victim is likely to be the United States itself.

     warns that the new administration’s protectionism resembles the strategy many developing countries once tried.
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    The End of Germany’s Economic Delusions?

    Katharina Pistor

    It took a pandemic and the threat of war to get Germany to dispense with the two taboos – against debt and monetary financing of budgets – that have strangled its governments for decades. Now, it must join the rest of Europe in offering a positive vision of self-sufficiency and an “anti-fascist economic policy.”

     welcomes the apparent departure from two policy taboos that have strangled the country's investment.
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    The Fed, the Fund, and the Bank in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Barry Eichengreen explains why the US president’s second administration, unlike his first, is targeting all three.
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    Europe Can Easily Safeguard Ukraine

    Daniel Gros points out that the EU, the UK, and Norway have all they need to keep Russia at bay, without help from the US.
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    Toward a North American Economic Union

    Nouriel Roubini explains why Canada, Mexico, and the United States should pursue EU-style integration.

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