Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of ...

In November, the world's most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...

Mattia Ferraresi is a writer at the Italian newspaper Domani. The Catholic Church is not known for its democratic practices. The pope is the absolute ruler of a theocratic state with no separation of ...

A gathering of democratically-minded individuals called Citizens in Support of Democracy met in the Bromley room at the Siuslaw library on Saturday, Oct. 25, to lodge a unified protest against the ...

That is the stark warning of the first-ever flagship report from the Afrobarometer, the African survey organisation based in Accra, Ghana. Based on nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — While inflation and immigration emerged as the dominant themes in this year’s presidential race, another issue was prominent in the minds of voters for both major candidates: the ...

According to polling data, 62 percent of Americans favor the government being responsible for the health coverage of all people in the country. Sixty-five percent of Americans polled favored the ...

The past year has been both a glass half empty and half full for the world’s democracies. From Asia to Africa to the Americas, it produced examples of democracy working and citizens standing up ...