Serbia has all the trappings of a democracy. It does not lock up journalists for what they write. Yet in dozens of ways it ...

A year and a half ago, Bangladesh looked as though it was on track to defy the global pattern of democratic reversal. Mass ...

Violent protests erupt in Albania as thousands demand government resignation over alleged corruption scandal involving Deputy PM Balluku and infrastructure contracts.

The world is in the middle of an extreme backslide in democracy, with Human Rights Watch saying that about 72s% of the world now lives under autocratic governments, and that democracy has receded to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he was first sworn in as Uganda’s president in 1986, Yoweri Museveni declared that his victory represented a “fundamental ...

In principle, a person who supports a government of, by, and for the people should not also support a system that ...

Scale and speed of president’s moves have stunned observers of authoritarian regimes – is the US in democratic peril?

Dhaka - Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, said Saturday it had accepted the "overall outcome" of the ...

It fell to others to reflect on the costs of maintaining the myth of “Mussolinian miracle-working,” as Tullio Cianetti, a ...

Shafiqur Rahman, chief of Bangladesh's Islamist-led coalition, has issued a strong warning. His influential party will ...

Three contradictions threaten Bangladesh’s democratic transition: flawed referendum mechanics, exclusionary digital campaigns ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...