KOCHI: In the aftermath of Thursday’s steam-boiler explosion at an eatery in the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) stadium complex, UDF ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Biden applauded his own administration's work at maintaining a strong democracy but said that a ... Greek philosopher Aristotle used the term to describe the rule of aristocracy, or elite powerful ...

In Aristotelian terms, democracy is also a corrupt form of government in which the majority uses its power to abuse minorities. While the term democracy has been rehabilitated and is usually seen as a ...

About seven months ago, after the beautiful memorial service for former Allegheny County Executive Jim Roddey at the University of Pittsburgh, I wrote a column proposing a “Roddey Circuit” of events ...

Can democracy fight against oligarchy? Despite Aristotle’s assertion in his book, Politics, that “democracy is safer and more free from civil strife than oligarchy,” the German sociologist ...

If the constitutions became corrupt and the leadership acted only to advance their own self-interest, he labelled them tyranny, oligarchy and democracy. So for Aristotle, an oligarchy is a corrupt ...

No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it actually say?

At first glance, President Donald Trump’s second inauguration seemed like a continuation of the country’s nearly 250-year-long tradition of peaceful transfers of power, essential to its democracy. And ...

Even before these latest actions, a significant number of Americans were worried about the U.S. becoming less of a democracy and more of an authoritarian state under Trump's second term.