Democracy
Democracy’s Canary in a Coal Mine
Editorial Cartoonists and the Health of Democracy
In April 2019, the Bertelsmann Foundation convened two dozen international leaders from the fields of business, politics, nonprofits, and the arts for the Washington Symposium, which asked how to make democracy resilient enough to face the challenges of the 21st century.
One of the essays submitted to the conference was this comic strip by Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes.