We must change the discussion and argument. It is not the United States versus Venezuela, Iran versus Israel, or Nicaragua ...

Media casts Trump's second term as a destructive force in contrast to Biden, highlighting his attacks on elite institutions ...

When Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and restored liberal democracy, the small Baltic country ...

Israel proves that realism and legality are not opposites. A world that takes law seriously must be willing to confront those ...

Annual change in V-Dem liberal democracy index since 2008:-0.0110 per year Current regime classification: Electoral democracy (since 2021) Recent episodes of unrest: Strategic development in the ...

NPR often frames its news coverage in ways that make conservative policies seem harmful, rather than simply reporting the ...

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A senior Liberal Party figure has backed calls for leader Sussan Ley to not use the Indigenous flag and dump “tokenistic” ...

Yet neither triumphalism nor fatalism captures the real dynamic. A more measured analysis shows that history’s arc is not ...

“Liberal democracy” is not merely the act of electing leaders, but a system defined by the rule of law, checks and balances, protections for minorities, an independent judiciary, and a free press.

This is not to equate Trump with the founders in character or intellect. Rather, it is to acknowledge that they were not enlightened democrats. They were revolutionaries.