You can be sure that whatever comes next from the people trying to convince you our nation is not a democracy, it won't be ...

History’s verdict is unwavering: democracy survives not by the silence of the cautious, but by the courage of the convicted.

About half of U.S. adults believe democracy is functioning “very” or “moderately” poorly in the United States, while only ...

THERE is no denying the moral force of the anti-corruption narrative. It is powerful, mobilizing and politically seductive.

John Samples, a vice president at the Cato Institute, argues in A Fourth Republic? that the New Deal era characterized a Third Republic dominated by experts and that this era has come to an end. He ...

Editor: I am writing this letter in response to a letter printed Nov. 12, titled "democratic socialism." The author listed many programs that function as democratic socialism. The last sentence ...

He was remembered most for the Iraq war, until he called Trump a threat to the republic. At his memorial: Did he change, or ...

In our previous segment, we addressed the President of the Republic of Liberia, highlighting key reforms and suggesting areas for improvement. Today, we turn our attention to the citizens of Liberia.

Democracy does not exist when political parties are controlled by major donors. Democracy does not exist when it is ...

The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...

"Enough, it is no longer tolerable now. Have you seen what happened? One point zero, zero point something and the like: thus ...

Gerrit van der Wees is a former Dutch diplomat who teaches the history of Taiwan and US relations with East Asia at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.