A majority of voters nationally are not satisfied with how democracy is working in the U.S. but are open to a dictator who reflects their views, according to a new survey by the Center for a ...

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

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." This bit of paradoxical wisdom comes to us courtesy of famed English writer G.K. Chesterton. At first, it seems contrary to our received wisdom ...

Many American universities offer a course entitled History of Civilization. In that curriculum one finds a description of the evolution of what is termed western (European) thought and history from ...

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

Ukraine recently marked a grim three-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. The Kremlin’s plan was to capture the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in three days, arrest Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

In his recent post on X, he even wrote a line that could have come from Lenin or Stalin: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” And like many autocrats, he weaponizes democracy’s own ...

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 ...

Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...