what do Americans think about the NSA scandal

[kandrathe]

In 1914, Portugal became the third democratic republic in Europe, after France and Switzerland. By the end of WWI, the principle of democratic republicanism seemed triumphant. Then, again with the end of World War II, and once more, with the collapse of the Soviet Empire in the late 1980s and early 1990s. You'd think that universal and global democracy has finally come into its own.

But, really, it's not so rosey. The Great Democracy Meltdown BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK resonated with me.