It is ... inevitable that the direction the country is going in will have to change.
Given the primary importance of oil interests, we could be turned into a political branch of the United States.
U.S. democracy is hanging on for now, [but] the combination of weapons, hate and polarization is a dangerous cocktail.
The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is proof that the rules of the games are failing.
[T]his attack is not merely a simple instance of gun violence; it goes on to show how the country is undergoing one of its worst phases in recent times, signaling deep-running turmoil.
[T]he leading Western nation is unwittingly shredding more and more of its own democracy.
The U.S. is no longer a beacon of light — it is the first domino to fall in the democratic world.
This ... is all it takes to justify killing: Label a weapon as “democratic,” and the devil himself can masquerade as an angel.
[R]epublican democracy in America proved easier to attain but more superficial and fragile.
American democracy need not be written off as quickly as often happens these days.