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Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism

  • Written by: Christopher Justin Einolf, Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
image Alex Soros is the board chair of the Open Society Foundations, the philanthropy funded by his father, George Soros.AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

The New York Times reports that a senior Department of Justice official recently “instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate” the Open Society...

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