Democracy News: May 2022

Here is the latest news from Leadership Now and our members.

  • Academic Advisor and Harvard Kennedy School Prof. David Gergen in an article by CBS News doesn't hold back when asked to describe the state of democracy in 2022: "We can't continue on the path we're on; it's unsustainable," he said. "It has the sense that we're, like, in a car, at midnight, on the edge of a cliff, with rain falling, and no headlights." 

  • Academic Advisor and Stanford Business School Prof. Anat Admati mentioned in a Financial Times opinion piece on how ESG investing is missing the realities of market power in an age of corporate concentration and rising profits.

  • Academic Advisor and HBS Prof. Rawi Abdelal published an opinion piece in the Boston Globe sharing what the West could do to further support Ukraine and ensure the country comes to the negotiating table with the strongest possible position.

  • In her Washington Post review of E.J. Dionne Jr. and Miles Rapoport’s new book, 100% Democracy, Policy Member Didi Kuo, senior research scholar and associate director at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, unpacks how mandatory universal voting may have the potential to fix our democracy.