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It's Tuesday, December 27.

I'm Ann Marie for Totally for the Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News.

All this week, we're taking a look at some of the biggest changes this past year, as most of the world's major economies sought to emerge from the depths of the pandemic.

We'll hear from a range of experts in their fields, starting today with a big one, Democracy.

The institutions of democracy were perhaps stronger than some of the worriers feared that they might be. They held pretty well, I think.

This debate is not over, this argument will continue to some extent, but I do think it will continue from a place in which people have a little more confidence in the system and in their democracy than they did before this November.

That's former Wall Street Journal executive Washington editor Jerry Sybe.

Coming up, he'll join us with more on why the midterms were ultimately a win for the institutions of democracy. That's after the break.

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This year, the midterms posed challenges not just for control of Congress, but for democracy itself.

Despite increasing political polarization, including candidates who question the integrity of the election system, our former executive Washington editor Jerry Sybe argues that these crucial elections mark a collective step back for the nation from the political abyss.

Jerry is currently a fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, his alma mater. And he joins me now with more. Welcome back, Jerry.

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