What we saw with [Elon] Musk and Trump, it’s basically creating money and power. It’s like centered in the same hands. That’s ...

World / Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past forty years have proven ...

Ancient Greece is where the first form of direct democracy was developed. It was called demokratia, literally meaning "rule ...

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

But it goes further. Focus America on Nebraska and not New York, that hub of global cosmopolitanism. “America first” is a statement about tradition, about the America Trump wanted to make great.

First, democracy does not require denying that some are fit to rule others. Instead, especially in representative democracy, we might think of it as a procedure for figuring out who is fit to rule ...

Democracy Must Come First. If Trump isn’t convicted for an overt attempt to overturn an election, then his won't be the last such attack. By . Readers. Share. Resize. Listen ...

Since Biden's first democracy summit in December 2021, countries have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic and Russia invaded Ukraine, the largest-scale war in Europe since World War II.

American democracy did indeed originally flourish, as Zakaria argues in the first part of his book, on the basis of constitutional liberty. And in the opening decades of the nineteenth century, ...

After facing international criticism when organizing the first democracy summit in 2021 that the initiative was too top-down and U.S.-driven – especially given America’s own serious challenges ...

Mr. Levitsky and Mr. Ziblatt are professors of government at Harvard and the authors of “Tyranny of the Minority.” During the first Republican debate of the 2024 presidential primary campaign ...

First-time presidential voters met to discuss politics and democracy. Here’s what they had to say ... “In the first election I ever voted in, our park tax won by 52 votes.