Prospective candidate Tim Mayer said on Friday that “the rules of this election mean that there will be no election".

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Over the past two days, several Western nations announced they are recognizing an independent Palestinian state, just a few weeks before the second anniversary of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

The Supreme Court appears ready to hobble the landmark civil-rights law. What does that mean for Black voters, democracy, and ...

In his first book, “The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding,” journalist Osita Nwanevu ...

Nwanevu makes three main claims: “that democracy is good, that America is not a democracy, and that America should become a ...

NAIROBI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - African officials and business executives are fretting over the impending expiry of a crucial, duty-free trade programme with the United States at the end of September, ...

More U.N. members support the creation of a Palestinian state than ever before. Dozens of world leaders gathering in New York for the 80th United Nation's General Assembly came together to voice their ...

We’re now in the third week of a reckless government shutdown, and the only thing either side can see eye to eye on is that it’s the other guy’s fault.

Uncertainty about where we find ourselves in political time—“back to the future,” back to the GOP of 1989, or back to Germany in the mid-1930s—goes beyond what any fact checking could resolve.

The veteran Middle East negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley assess the promises and pitfalls of Trump’s peace deal.

To begin this article, we should first outline what fascism is. Fascism is an ideology centered on extreme nationalism. It ...