Southeast Asia now finds itself caught in a middle-democracy trap where development sidelines democratic progress ...

Applebaum: About older American traditions of state capture. Richard White: He would choose all the boards and commissions. He packed the courts. And, once you have the courts and the legislature—and ...

The Republican tax bill is set to worsen inequality, government data shows. It’s part of a 50-year trend that’s affecting the ...

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 ...

Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

"An 11-minute session at the cost of Rs 1 crore is not just a waste of money, it's a fraud on democracy," said LoP Bajwa.

About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

The village egg toss on the Fourth of July sings of democracy to me. An exuberant gaggle of 100-plus people lined up for the ...

Students at Johns Hopkins University debated political decisions playing out in the U.S. Their emotional discussions reveal how one generation sees democracy.

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

At the heart of this democratic struggle stood the Constitution — which served as the most powerful legal foundation for the opposition’s calls for political reform and universal suffrage.