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“Democracy and Its Enemies” – A Camden Conference presentation with Thomas F. Remington This year’s Camden Conference is focusing on the worldwide retreat from democracy. In this talk, Thomas Remington will […]

Pictured, clockwise: Maria Ressa, Colin Woodard, Matthew Goodwin, Stephen Walt, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Fyodor Lukyanov Several past and upcoming Camden Conference speakers have joined in the global conversation about the […]

As legacy media, newspapers in particular, have shrunk in the Internet Age, local news coverage has been placed on the endangered list. Small town weeklies have folded and daily papers […]

Local newspapers are vital to the civic health of America’s small towns –– but local papers are a vanishing breed, leaving “news deserts” in many parts of Maine and the […]

The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Europe: What exactly is populism, and why are these parties attracting so many voters? The answer lies in the deep-seated cultural, economic, and security […]