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, ...

Democracy in Asia faces challenges, even where it is relatively liberal and strong, amid a global democratic recession ...

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

The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...

Liberalism’s core class is under siege—can the liberal order survive the global backlash against its institutional power?

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

In his recent piece, "Of Reactionaries, Clerics and Protests," Dr. Nerses Kopalyan casts the growing unrest in Armenia as a ...