James Madison’s Last Fight: Are We Witnessing the End of Liberal Democracy?
Recent events - from Black Lives Matter protests to a show trial for an impeached president, to the poorly managed...
Recent events - from Black Lives Matter protests to a show trial for an impeached president, to the poorly managed...
Social media crowds. Cancel culture. Speech police on campus. It's all part of life in America today. Freedom of expression...
Throughout the report's fifty pages, the Intelligence and Security Committee paints a picture of a rotten state from head to...
GraphicFriday July 24, 2020 On Tuesday, five council members did what many lawyers couldn't, agreeing that state law, not Boulder's...
Or consider an article from 2019, "False equivalence: Are liberals and conservatives in the United States equally biased? " through...
A Christian was fatally injured for swimming in a tube-well pool used by Muslims. Although the country's constitution protects religious...
WARSAW, July 12 (Reuters) - Polish presidential candidates, incumbent Conservative Andrzej Duda and liberal Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski, have very...
Liberal democracy is like a bizarre fruit that ripens slowly and spoils easily. The main reason is an inability to...
Scott Bourque/KJZZA constituent signs a petition for a criminal justice reform initiative during a signature collection event at the Farmer's...
Liberal democracy enjoys weak support in much of central and eastern Europe, according to a poll conducted in 10 countries...
In the end, all that was left was sex. And its hinterland. It was November 1998 and after six years...
Instead of simply begging their representatives to make things right, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to support...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Many Christian and political conservatives in the United States support legislation to deny sexual and gender minorities...
A new Trump appointee to the US foreign aid agency has a history of online postings denouncing liberal democracy and...
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LARKSPUR, Calif .-- (COMMERCIAL THREAD) -SAILINGSTONE CAPITAL PARTNERS ("SailingStone") announces that it has written an open letter to the shareholders...
The powers of direct democracy - initiative, referendum, and recall - have been powerful tools in controlling slow or corrupt...
The terms “liberalism” and “liberal democracy” are often confused. While liberalism is the predominant political ideology in the United States,...
Thousands of people gathered in Zurich in December 1867 to challenge the political order and demand more democratic rights. Keystone...
The Arizonans pride themselves on being an independent band. We would rather our politicians be mavericks than sheep. We relish...
âMany forms of government have been and will be tried in this world of sin and calamity. No one claims...
Even if Western leaders manage to limit the immediate fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak, it will mean little without forward-looking...
After the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the introduction of pluralist political systems in the latter part of...
Taipei, Taiwan - Wendy had just moved in with her new partner when the couple unexpectedly found themselves accused of...
Minorities face significant challenges, especially Muslims in the current context, which are largely linked to their under-representation as well as...
Recent ruling by two-judge bench removes autonomy from West Bengal madrasas The protection of minorities is the mark of a...
The challenges facing Western liberal democracies today are serious enough to remind us of Europe's descent into tyranny in the...
Slovakia is expected to hold a key parliamentary vote that should see the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS), which...
It is vitally important, especially at a time when the Achilles' heel of liberal democracy everywhere seems to be gravely...
Without strength in numbers and often without the strength of wealth, minority groups lose out in the democratic negotiation process....
A general rule of South Asian politics might be that every action India takes has an equal and opposite reaction...
While the United States is spending its energy fighting against itself, the rest of the world is on the move...
On Tuesday, Extra Sessions Judge Kamini Lau of Delhi's Tis Hazari Court made a moving statement defending, among other things,...
review of Capitalism, Alone (Harvard University Press, 2019). The emergence of capitalism in the ex-communist countries of Eastern Europe, the...
If the 2019 presidential and European elections were any indication of what to expect in the February 29 parliamentary elections,...
Breadcrumb Links Full Comment This complex balance of majority rule balanced with minority rights, judicial oversight, rule of law and...
A senior US official mentioned the importance of minority rights and religious freedom while commenting on India's amended citizenship law...
Expressing concern over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and the citizenship bill which has been approved by...
The Federal Palace in Bern, where the new Swiss parliament began to sit last week. Keystone / Peter Klaunzer The...
The rise of the right was made possible by a crisis in liberal democracy. Photo: Composite prospect Over the past...
Turning: During Brexit negotiations, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted that Northern Ireland could be treated as part of a...
Hidden among the latest amendments to the United States Constitution, between authorizing a federal income tax and banning the manufacture...
In a joint statement with NATO, Ukraine pledged to respect minority rights and implement a series of recommendations regarding an...
From the 1960s until very recently, the Liberals successfully argued in the Supreme Court that the tyranny of the majority...
FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto attends a press conference at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil October 8, 2019....
On October 3, I had the pleasure of attending the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in Taiwan and to...
Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the triumph of liberal democracy in his seminal 1992 classic, "The End of History and the Last...
In Mohammed Hanif's novel Red Birds, an American bomber pilot crashes his plane in the Arabian desert and finds himself...
Inclusiveness and minority rights: the reservation guarantees them Inclusiveness is about not restricting anyone on the basis of race, caste,...
Since then, calls have been made to re-empower the "guardians", which is a polite way of saying that the unwashed...
A movement for religious rights is transforming the place of religion in American public life. From the 1960s until very...
Freedom. Rights. Equality. Democracy. Rule of law. Free enterprise. These are the principles of liberal democracy (the word “liberal” not...
As Americans watch Brexit-related events political unrest in the UK, it is important to remember that the chaos began there...
As Americans watch the political turmoil over Brexit in the UK, it's important to remember that the chaos started there...
Every century has its own defining moment. For the 19th century it was the juxtaposition of imperialism and the industrial...
The tools of direct democracy — initiative, referendum and recall — are a powerful check against intransigent or corrupt politicians....
India is no longer a liberal democracy. This claim does not seem so surprising in light of some recent events....
The seven members of the Swiss government were sworn in before parliament in 1943. The photo suggests that everything is...
Andy Borowitz, the New Yorker sketch comedy writer, captured the essence of this week's British parliamentary drama better than most....
Political chaos in Britain - and the state of British politics is chaotic - may be the basis of two...
Three voting booths, but one is empty: The complexity of a voting question can discourage citizens from taking part in...
History is made in the "nooks and crannies and margins of the empire", writes Modibo Kadalie, a longtime organizer, field...
The kidnapped girl later appeared in a video in which she claimed to have "converted" to Islam. The girl's family...
Populist parties across Europe often support direct democracy, for example through frequent referendums. Do their constituents also support these initiatives...
Populist parties across Europe often support direct democracy, for example through frequent referendums. Do their constituents also support these initiatives...
A Bangladeshi minority rights activist found a rare opportunity to meet President Donald Trump in the White House, but those...
Democracy in the world todayWhat does the state of democracy look like today in the world?Mica Soellner, Post CrescentDouglas Zoerb...
Last summer, following attempts to push through gun reform measures through multi-state ballot initiatives, National Rifle Association chief lobbyist Chris...
Much has been said lately about the impending demise of democracy. The continued rise of China, the emergence of dominant...
I met a couple of civilized-looking tourists one evening this week. Middle-aged European Jews, they had high-level relationships but not...
Can the norms and institutions of liberal democracy still effectively arbitrate the issues that animate the debates in Western democracies?The...
Around the world, alarm bells are ringing for democracy. Everywhere we find strongmen in command, enraged citizens and a desperate...
The re-election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been described by some of his critics as a blow to...
Voters in Florida in November approved a constitutional amendment, put on the ballot through the citizens' initiative process, that restored...
Living a private life is simply insufficient. We badly need a commitment in public life Living a private life is...
As the world watches with awe and awe the greatest democracy on the planet go to the polls, why should...
Participants at a water festival in Taiwan earlier this week. Keystone / David Chang The new conventional wisdom is that...
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recently suggested that the Supreme Court need not address the issue of partisan gerrymandering because...
By Rajiv Shah Even as India heads to the polls, a recent European Union-assisted Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) report, claiming...
There are two sides to the demand for greater voter participation. On the one hand, currently concerning the law on...