The decision sparked a wave of protests in the crisis-hit country. The junta has now forbidden members of the dissolved ...

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of ...

The administration wants to do what it chooses without checks upon its powers. That is a dictatorship, not a constitutional ...

Far from a democratic example to the world, our parliamentary system is in a state of advanced disrepair – so advanced it is debatable whether it should still be called a democracy. The plain ...

If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the ...

A Taranaki health service says vulnerable patients are about to lose dedicated help during complex, often frightening medical ...

Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America ...

Senator Oshiomhole has dismissed concerns that the growing number of lawmakers defecting to the APC poses a threat to Nigeria’s democracy.

Bangladesh’s Election Commission has cancelled the registration of the former ruling party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, preventing it from participating in the next national election, which ...

Americans are yearning for the rule of law to hold. We all want the three branches of government to function as our ...