While both systems have their merits, democracy prioritises the power and accountability of leaders to the people, whereas ...

Moderndemocracies face significant challenges in preserving civilisational identities of majority communities within diverse ...

Long a constitutional monarchy with ties to Great Britain, many in Jamaica are looking to end the old relationship and become ...

KATHMANDU -- Democracy is under strain in Nepal as a growing number of disillusioned voters call for the restoration of the monarchy.

Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his thoughts about government into what historians call the “Constitutional ...

The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

A watchdog group asked the Pentagon inspector general to probe whether the Defense Dept. broke laws by accepting a $400 ...

While the Voting Rights Act may be heading to its demise as a functional piece of legislation, it can still stand as a symbol ...

In doing so, the court would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality. If ...

He’s almost there. We are watching what I never thought possible — the transformation of our democracy into a dictatorship (or, as President Donald Trump promoted, a monarchy with him as king). The ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

Monarchies ruled the world for thousands of years, but in the last 250 years, their dominance has almost completely disappeared. What led to the downfall of monarchies and the rise of democratic ...