Democracy
🗳️ Strong connection between democracy and prosperity
People living in democracies are richer, healthier and happier. And there is a strong connection between democracy and prosperity, a new report from The Atlantic Council and the Alliance of Democracies shows.
🌅 Obama should feel more hope
Citizens in free countries are richer, happier and healthier than citizens in unfree countries. Barack Obama should use his world-class rhetorical skills to boost confidence in democracy and create hope for its future. Because, as he used to say: There is nothing false about hope.
📱 These people are using technology to strengthen democracy
Eight democracy activists from Ukraine, Venezuela and Georgia presented their web tools to organize democracy movements, expose corruption, bring transparency to elections and help investigative journalism.
💡 Optimist's Edge: This is how we'll get peace on Earth
A majority thinks world peace is not possible, but it is. A world with only democracies will be a world at peace, with wars only in the history books.