President Bola Tinubu’s decision to end the roughly forty (40) years of subsidizing petrol pump prices on the very day of his inauguration— May 29, 2023—is a prime example of the use of executive ...

Our name means “the people.” It is the root word of democracy, and it reminds us that the true source of our greatness is the diversity of our people. The SAVE Act would gut third-party voter ...

The rules-based orthodoxy which has sustained the global order since the end of World War II in 1945, concurrently anchored on liberal democracy in progressive climes, is witnessing, like never before ...

An even greater danger may lie in the shambolic nature of his policymaking. Democracy may die in darkness. It may die in despotism. Under Trump, it’s just as liable to die in dumbness.

The motion for emergency relief was filed late Friday in federal court in Maryland by the legal services group Democracy Forward against the Social Security Administration and its acting ...

Yoon’s opponents urged prosecutors to appeal the ruling. The leftist NGO People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, which has been leading candlelight vigils in support of Yoon’s ...

Osborne is an admirer of democracy and recognises throughout that whatever its ... He notes the paradoxes the Greeks recognised from the start, such as that, as Cleisthenes ...

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In more news from the State Department, the agency is preparing to shutter a dozen overseas consulates, as well as many more diplomatic missions. The move would include laying off many local ...

An illustration of what a protest in ancient Athens would look like, where citizens actively participated in political discourse. Ancient Greece often conjures up images of grand religious temples and ...

What is the history of democracy in Ukraine? Ukraine has a history that goes back centuries. Aspirations for freedom and justice were often central to its nation-building project, but the history of ...