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Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about

Election cyberattacks? It’s incompetence we need to worry about

12 February 2020

Concerns about adversaries hacking democracy abound, but it’s sheer incompetence we should really be worried about, writes Annalee Newitz
Brexit makes us question democracy – and so does climate change

Brexit makes us question democracy – and so does climate change

11 September 2019

Beating climate change is for many a “sacred value” that trumps all others – but is it ever legitimate to abandon democratic norms to achieve a goal, asks Graham Lawton

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