Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

The 'Excessive Wealth' Conference hears from a millionaire heir about how global corporations exploit consumers and undermine democracy ...

The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...

In his recent piece, "Of Reactionaries, Clerics and Protests," Dr. Nerses Kopalyan casts the growing unrest in Armenia as a ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in ...

Whether or not the United States has stuck to its principles consistently in our foreign relations is no reason to abandon ...

Venezuela held local and parliamentary elections on May 25 th. Unsurprisingly, Maduro’s allies won with an overwhelming majority. Even though Maduro had severely tilted the playing field in his favor, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has been challenging the American constitutional system. But the courts, the media, the economy and above all, federalism are fencing him in.

Global media also spotlighted Air India crash survivor Ramesh Viswashkumar as one of the few to have escaped such aviation disasters by a stroke of fate & the test ahead for Shubman Gill.

President Trump is seeking to unleash the full power of the federal government to punish Americans who do not share his political views. It is a step toward the single-party state of an autocracy. It ...

06/13/2025 Klara Dobrev is head of Hungary's opposition Democratic Coalition and former vice president of the European Parliament. DW spoke to her about the rise of illiberal democracy in Europe ...

In Hungary, however, he was welcomed by his old friend, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who had proudly declared, “The new state we are constructing in Hungary is an illiberal state, a non-liberal ...