Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor calls dynastic politics a grave threat to Indian democracy. He argues power should be ...

Power of surname, feudal systems, cliques, and a lack of internal democracy in parties among issues raised by Shashi Tharoor ...

When families falter, the social fabric of democracy itself begins to fray. A strong democracy depends on strong families. It’s within families that children first learn empathy, responsibility and ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Within weeks of their publication in July 1776, those words spread around the world. In August, a London newspaper reprinted ...

María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader driven into hiding since a disputed election last year, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for keeping “the flame of democracy burning ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann ...

Just over 20 years ago, John Roberts was sworn in as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In those two decades, Roberts has blithely overseen the near-total dismantling of American democracy and ...

The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...

Younger generations are justifiably critical of a government that has saddled them with this debt burden, and many of them have lost faith in the capitalist system. A recent survey by the CATO ...

Donald Trump likes to say he doesn’t actually lose elections–only the “rigged” ones. Such comments are not mere bluster, like the president’s boasts about golf. They are threats to democracy, which is ...

Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...