Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via GettyThe G7 used to be a very exclusive club. To join, you had to be asked, and to be asked you had to preside over one of the richest industrial nations in the world. But that wasn’t enough. Your government had to be a democracy fundamentally committed to human rights, free speech, the rule of law, and—it went without saying—a belief in the importance of objective facts.The one exception was made in 1997 when Russia was invited to join, even though it wasn’t rich enough by any measure and its democratic record was thin. The other …read more
Source: The Daily Beast
