{
  "id": 17906046,
  "title": "Tocqueville in 2026: 'Should we examine the recent developments in American society to analyze how democracies die?'",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/tocqueville-in-2026-should-we-examine-the-recent-developments-in",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T19:30:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2026/11/02/tocqueville-in-2026-should-we-examine-the-recent-developments-in-american-society-to-analyze-how-democracies-die_6769469_23.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The French publisher Calmann-Lévy is reissuing Alexis de Tocqueville's 'Democracy in America' (1835). In a new preface, Dominique Schnapper, a sociologist and political scientist at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, examines American political life under President Trump. Here are excerpts.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}