57. Is Democracy Dying?: Freedom House 2021 Report (English Vocabulary Lesson)

<p><strong>Is democracy dying? According to a recently released report, the answer might be ‘yes.’ Freedom House’s democracy rankings for 2020 were released last week, and the findings were shocking! In this episode we’ll talk about their conclusions, how Freedom House is able to assess democracy, and discuss why democracy might be struggling!</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2021/03/08/57-is-democracy-dying-freedom-house-2021-report-english-vocabulary-lesson/"><strong>TRANSCRIPT - https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2021/03/08/57-is-democracy-dying-freedom-house-2021-report-english-vocabulary-lesson/</strong></a></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>2021 Freedom in the World Report </strong>- <a href="https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2021/democracy-under-siege">https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2021/democracy-under-siege</a></p> <p><strong>What is Democracy?</strong> - <a href="http://thinkinginenglish.blog/2020/11/08/18-what-is-democracy-english-vocabulary-lesson/">http://thinkinginenglish.blog/2020/11/08/18-what-is-democracy-english-vocabulary-lesson/</a></p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://thinkinginenglish.blog/2021/01/04/39-brexit-all-the-essential-vocabulary-english-vocabulary-lesson/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CONTACT US!!</a></p> <p>INSTAGRAM - thinkinginenglishpodcast (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thinkinginenglishpodcast/</a>)</p> <p>Twitter - @thinkenglishpod</p> <p>Blog - <a href="https://thinkinginenglish.blog/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thinkinginenglish.blog</a></p> <p>Gmail - thinkinginenglishpod@gmail.com</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Vocabulary List</strong></p> <p><strong>To collapse (v) - to suddenly fail, be unable to continue or work correctly</strong></p> <p><em>The Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s</em></p> <p><strong>Unprecedented (adj) - never having happened or existed in the past</strong></p>