With nations unable to address global issues or unify their people, local elections and city alliances can fill the void.

So far democracy has, just about, passed the giant test of nerves it has faced in 2024. A lawful, peaceful transfer of power ...

The country is poised at a great fork in the road, with a historically significant decision to be made between democracy or ...

Experts on a panel in Athens last week debated how a growth in organizations aimed at countering a rise in autocracies could ...

Is America’s downturn merely another temporary dip in a long arc of non-linear, yet upward, progress? Or is it the first phase of a steep national decline? The answer lies with the American people.

Thinkers at the time thought of democracy as an egalitarian society that responded to the end of feudalism and the rise of a ...

Anya Schiffrin hopes so, and is working to make the news more accessible with the Saving Journalism Conference.

For decades, the United States stood as the world's dominant superpower, shaping global politics, mediating conflicts, and upholding its vision of liberal democracy. Today, that influence is waning.

The U.S. empire, audaciously proclaimed by the Monroe Doctrine soon after two independence wars won against Britain, grew across the 19th and 20th centuries, and peaked during the decades between 1945 ...

Africa continues to experience both progress and crises of governance. Despite these contradictory developments, Africans ...

Taiwan is not spending sufficiently on defense, which risks encouraging an easier Chinese invasion and the United States's ...

On a farewell tour to mark the end of a decade-long presidency this week, Indonesia’s Joko Widodo has been seeking ...