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Reflections on the U.S.-China Relationship
 • Rory Truex
Inside the Pro-democracy Movement
Lessons from Ezra Levin and Daniella Ballou-Aares
 • Rory Truex
Word of the Week: Legal Polarization
Deborah Pearlstein on Lawyers Who Lie
 • Rory Truex
We Need Political Reform
Here's What It Might Look Like
 • Rory Truex
The State of American Science
An Interview with Science EIC, Holden Thorp
 • Rory Truex
Word of the Week: Disguised Repression
How Modern Autocrats Silence Their Critics
 • Rory Truex
Four Things You Should Know About Political Violence
What You Can Do To Take Down the Temperature
 • Rory Truex
How to Improve Representation
Lessons from Amanda Litman and Run for Something
 • Rory Truex
Where Does the Pro-democracy Movement Go From Here?
What I Learned From Interviewing Five Leading Scholars of Resistance
 • Rory Truex
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Writing on authoritarian politics and democratic erosion from Rory Truex, Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Home of The Civic Forum speaker series and podcast.
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