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

Much of the world looks bleak in the fall of 2024. Israel’s assault on Gaza, the world’s first livestreamed genocide, goes on unchecked, with  material ...

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.

While it is understandable that most corporate leaders have declined to engage publicly on these topics, there is one issue ...

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.

When the Cold War ended consequent on the dismemberment of the USSR in 1991, international communism which was the driving force of ideology behind one superpower also faced a demise. The rival US had ...

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.

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