How NOT to regulate social media: "To say that digital technology has disrupted society is already a cliché. Yet we are only just starting to grasp the radical break we are facing with respect to our legal institutions and norms" writes Eileen Donahoe, Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator for The American Interest. Read here.

"The United States and its liberal democratic allies must develop a new global strategy to counter the power projection of expansive autocracies and to reboot an international campaign to promote democratic values and ideas. But we also need to renew the core of what we are fighting for: the worth of our own democracy," writes Larry Diamond in "How to Reverse the Degradation of Our Politics."

In The American Interest podcast host Richard Aldous speaks with Larry Diamond about a potential crisis brewing for liberal democracy. Listen here.

CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama writes on social media and democracy in relaunched publication The American Interest. Read the article here.

"Trump is acting in manner that suggests that he hopes to repeat his 2016 feat of winning the Electoral College but not the popular vote.  What he has said and done to date is consistent with that strategic premise. The key elements of Trump’s agenda: stoke the populist base, split white from nonwhite Democrats and Independents, and take advantage of a favorable political geography.  Since the President’s popularity hovers at or just under 40 percent, a purely Electoral College strategy may at this point be his only option," writes Bruce E. Cain in The American Interest article "Trump’s Re-Election Strategy."

"The normal functioning of our check-and-balance system has been dependent on some degree of cooperation between the parties. It has seized up in recent years as the parties have become more polarized and ideological," writes CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama for The American Interest. Read the article here.

“All of us involved with the Program on American Democracy in Comparative Perspective think the demarcation between American and comparative politics is fuzzy,” Kuo said -- hence the program's name. Even the center’s Americanist faculty members do comparative work, she added, and the “rest of us are comparativists who have long believed that the U.S. should be considered a case in comparative analysis,” says Didi Kuo for www.insidehighered.com. Read the article here.

"We have entered a new era in which two great-power adversaries are threatening our democratic way of life with great subtlety and sophistication,"  writes Larry Diamond for The American Interest. Read the article here.

On Oct. 6 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided the keynote address at the launch of the Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi), a new initiative that is part of CDDRL’s growing suite of programs focused on the study of democracy and digital technology. To an audience of over 500 at Stanford University, Clinton discussed the growing threat of cyber warfare and issued an urgent appeal to combat the growing phenomenon of fake news to repair our democracy. Clinton was interviewed by Eileen Donahoe, GDPi’s executive director who is leading the initiative together with Larry Diamond, CDDRL’s former director and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.