Barely one week into his refurbished presidential tenure, America's Donald Trump seems poised to set new precedents in the model of the Presidency as the pinnacle of America's democracy. An elected ...

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Days after Trump tapped the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, Hegseth condemned the United Nations as “a fully globalist organization that aggressively advances an anti-American ...

who after losing and then regaining office moved his country from a democracy into an “illiberal state,” as he put it. It was ...

This is not a theoretical question. It is evident that Trump is following a known playbook for turning a liberal democracy into an illiberal one. The latter is a label for a dictatorship — a ...

"Their illiberal attitude to people who disagree with them politically is unpalatable. I look forward to being back on committees soon and I can guarantee, with a larger Reform presence in the ...

In a farewell address delivered from the Oval Office on Wednesday, Biden warned that the "dangerous concentration of power" among the wealthy in the United States "threatens our entire democracy." ...

In this sense, liberal democracy becomes ‘illiberal democracy’ in which only the form but not the substance of it is observed. Unfortunately in many parts of Africa, liberal democracy has ...

who after losing and then regaining office moved his country from a democracy into an “illiberal state,” as he put it. It was one of the faster collapses of a robust democracy on record.

When a democracy becomes so corrupted into becoming illiberal, citizens often become so concomitantly frustrated with the system that they long for ‘liberation’ from it. This is where ...

Wasn’t it a paradox that the man who toppled a constitutional order in his country was being received as a hero at an occasion to celebrate the increasing resilience of liberal democracy in Ghana? And ...