Hong Kong is headed for political gridlock after a huge rally on Dec. 4 in favor of greater democracy for the city. The unexpectedly big turnout250,000 claimed by the organizers, 63,000 by the ...

After each election, it’s natural to feel some tension or heaviness as we watch our nation grapple with its differences. Many of us get a feeling like our team has won or lost — or been eliminated.

“American democracy is at risk,” write the authors in their opening chapter, not because of terrorism or some other external threat but as a result of Americans’ growing disaffection for politics and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Amazing America) — Many people think that American democracy started with the Founding Fathers, but it didn't. It started with a mutiny on a boat and a storm, 100 years before ...

HERE’S WHAT YOU LEARN QUICKLY IN IRAQ: The transformation of the country into a peaceful, free market democracy is a bigger, more demanding, and far more difficult project than you ever dreamed.

Panelists at the Athens Democracy Forum discussed the widening conflict and the challenge of getting the warring parties to a consensus. By Celestine Bohlen This article is from a special report on ...

When I lived in China, a decade ago, I often saw propaganda billboards covered in words that supposedly expressed the country’s values: Patriotism. Harmony. Equality. And … Democracy. Indeed, China ...

Americans, it seems, can both value the idea of democracy and not support it in practice. Since 2016, academics and journalists have expressed concerns that formerly secure democracies are becoming ...