Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, emphasized the need to fight for freedom to preserve democracy during ...

Protesters hold a massive rally near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday, December 7, 2024, calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol's ouster after his martial law attempt. Yoon ...

Taiwan’s democracy didn’t emerge from peaceful reform alone but from decades of authoritarian rule that unintentionally laid ...

As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of ...

Democracy as a system of governance has its attractions, which include, but are not limited to, political tolerance, a ...

Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be said about the half of Americans who oppose the idea of allowing presidents to rule unilaterally—an exercise of ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of ...

Stearns is the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He is the author of PARLIAMENTARY AMERICA: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing ...

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” That quote is from the writings of H.L. Mencken, reporter for the Baltimore Sun newspaper ...

BNP protested dictatorship because there was no accountability, he said, adding that only democracy can ensure accountability in the society and the country ...