Democracy as a system of governance has its attractions, which include, but are not limited to, political tolerance, a ...

Presently, most countries in the world are governed through two main systems: democracy and dictatorship, each with its own significant advantages and disadvantages. Democracy is a system in which ...

Every American must understand that the U.S. is not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover; we are in it. Trump is acting on it methodically in broad daylight, with the deafening silence of the ...

One of the main arteries that carries blood throughout the organs of democracy is the freedom of the press. Trump shattered the independence of the state-run media and shunned all networks except ...

American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly ...

A far-right candidate threatens to dismantle decades of democratic progress in Latin America's most celebrated success story.

Politicians have discussed the need for open government for centuries with questionable results. At OpenUK’s State of Open Conference, Lord Nat Wei of Shoreditch in the UK Government's upper chamber, ...

The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference? THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK THOMAS P. COSTELLO/USA TODAY NETWORK / USA TODAY NETWORK If you hang around with ...

Democracy, in its truest Aristotelian sense, appears to be residing more comfortably in textbooks than in the realities of governance. Nowhere is this paradox more acute than in Pakistan, a nation ...