Amid a wave of mass protests against social inequality, Peru’s nominal opposition parties are doing everything possible to block any actions against recently installed President José Jerí.

America would be a different place politically and socially if the senator and presidential candidate, shaped by compassion ...

Yet charismatic leadership is not always a curse. It can work—but only when institutions are strong enough to contain it, and when personal magnetism does not harden into a cult. When these safeguards ...

Around two-thirds of voters say Trump has not lived up to their expectations on the economy and the cost of living, according ...

From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents ...

Nihilism: There are no enduring principles or values apart from the changeable whims of the leader; this annihilative impulse is contemptuous of human life and will ultimately lead to social and ...

Osun State Chapter, has urged political parties to break away from what it described as a long-standing pattern of ...

More than a century ago, from a Berlin prison cell where she was confined for her uncompromising opposition to the slaughter of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg warned, “Bourgeois society stands at ...

Yet, it functioned like a panel, with several speakers and a subsequent audience discussion, involving people who were ...

To defeat authoritarian ideologies, U.S. leaders must devote more attention to improving our democratic system of government at home.

George F. Will will speak at Notre Dame on politics, Madison’s ideas and democracy’s challenges. Free and livestreamed.

When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...