I T MAY BE hard to imagine today, but in the 1960s and 1970s Venezuela was hailed as a model democracy. Then the oil price ...

Oct. 19—At a voter forum earlier this year sponsored by The Day at the Public Library of New London, the discussion about democracy became so heated that it had to be shut down a few minutes early as ...

Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be said about the half of Americans who oppose the idea of allowing presidents to rule unilaterally—an exercise of ...

The Jair Bolsonaro presidency has been a disaster for Brazil. Over 650,000 dead from COVID-19. Amazon deforestation. Rising fascism. Budget cuts. Fake news. Threats to democracy. Journalist Michael ...

It was 1776. The US was a baby nation-state. It was very proud of itself for its radical new democracy, the first, it was claimed, since the ancient Greeks. Great decision-making power was conferred ...

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” That quote is from the writings of H.L. Mencken, reporter for the Baltimore Sun newspaper ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

President Zelensky’s response to the offer of evacuation out of the Ukraine is what leadership looks like in a time of crisis. In just a few words, he communicated defiance and resolve in the face of ...

Less than a year ago, Republicans and Democrats came together to support the RENANCER Act to limit the catastrophic dictatorship of Nicaragua under the regime of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, ...

As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of President Trump, we speak with Ralph Nader, who has been taking on the ...

Elon Musk is blasting the judiciary, claiming if judges can stop executive actions, “we do not live in a democracy.” “If ANY ...