So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...

There is plenty of talk of threats to 'Our Democracy,' but what is really in danger today is the classical liberal tradition ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

Speaking about “limits on limiting” democracy shifts the focus to the desired leeway or margin for democratic decision-making, i.e. the scope for its agency. While democracy, again in Plato’s words, ...

The demise of one of Hong Kong's last major pro-democracy parties, the League of Social Democrats, is the latest blow to the ...

A big majority guarantees a party will stay in office but nothing else. The Conservatives had a big enough majority after ...

University of Regina Professor Marc Spooner analyzes the threats to academia’s public mission.

To examples such as these, my friend might reply that Trump doesn’t always deliver on his rhetoric. That is true, but only to ...

Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with ...

The time has come for Arab nations to pursue a vision for a truly new regional order: one that serves Arab interests first ...