Tag: Democracy

Emboldened, vindictive, and surrounded by managerially incompetent loyalists out to destroy government agencies and punish his enemies, Mr. Trump is ...

It was a real squeaker, all right, but it squeaked the wrong way: in the Electoral College, determined by a ...

For just a few weeks shy of eight years now, a certain class of Americans have been walking around in ...

Editor’s note: Following a trip to Greece, our Columnist Richard Seifman was reminded of how much we owe today to the ...

For most of human history human rights did not exist. The struggle to secure them arguably began in 1215 with ...

Anyone who believes that living in an autocracy or a neo-fascist state is better than living in a democracy should ...

My daughter having expressed interest in the “silent generation” she thinks I grew up in, I reminded her that a ...

Russia has voted in its Presidential Election and Vladimir Putin has returned for an unprecedented fifth term. Putin will now ...

Historically, democracies have always been more fragile than dictatorships, and there is a reason dictators tend to appear so strong. ...

While 2023 will be remembered for some major breakthroughs in science and society, an alternative reality presents us with continuing ...

Hundreds of thousands of people protested in Warsaw, Poland against the ruling right-wing populist government and for democracy. Organised by ...

As the 34th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre draws near, China’s censors have gone into overdrive. Like they ...