Explore every session of The Long Council.
Germany should treat terrorism as a crime, prosecute it through courts, and keep emergency powers time-limited and specific.
America's institutions survived where almost no others did. That survival is real, but it is not the whole score.
America's founding institutions created durable legitimacy no peer nation replicated; whether that advantage is now spent is the unresolved question.
NAR is a real threat to democratic institutions, but the 2022 elections show those institutions can still hold.
Surveillance must be stopped before it is built, not governed after the state holds the data.
Democracy can survive without high culture, but it cannot survive without a civic sphere where citizens name, argue, and appear to each other.
Trump's pressure on courts, prosecutors, and elections is a real threat, but whether institutions hold depends on whether their defenders still act like defenders.
Europe's rightward shift represents democratic choice exercised against democratic norms.
Turkey faces systematic constitutional breakdown, but the council splits on whether resistance or patience better preserves the republic.
Ecosystems damaged by humans require active human restoration, not passive rewilding.
Israel has no legal right to build settlements, but the council splits on whether security threats override international law.
The government should not exclude green card applicants based on their criticism of Israel or support for the Palestinian cause.