In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

Their graves were mostly bare the day I visited — a fitting reminder of how the DFL Party has also neglected its traditional ...

Weeks into his second presidential term, Donald Trump is moving ahead with what his former confidant Steve Bannon called ...

Reinventing the Democrats as a working-class party. Thomas Geoghegan Here’s what should be taught these days in every ...

Don Brash submitted the below to the Herald as a response to the column from Lady Moxon. They declined the column, but I am happy to publish it here. Surely, in a liberal democracy, there are few ...

Indeed, Trump’s attempts to subvert the Constitution have been so frequent and so unapologetic, that many scholars are ...

Thank you for your willingness to take on the challenges of elected office. Here are some things of which to be mindful.

On Thursday, Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, resigned. Her resignation letter is a master class in ...

So, liberal democracy is a compelling necessity – and as ... The mantra of many leaders is that they should have their own definition of democracy and that autocracy can be described as the will of ...

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The Tunisian presidential election, which took place on 6 October, was marked by a very repressive and unfair political ...

BERLIN — Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the “ sick man of Europe ...