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There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

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Masha Gessen

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There’s something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

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We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

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May 14, 2024

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

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May 14, 2024

There’s something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

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