On this day 50 years ago, then prime minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency, suspending rights and jailing rivals.

Although 57% of young Europeans back democracy over any other form of government, 48% believe it is at risk in their country, according to a new YouGov survey.

The village egg toss on the Fourth of July sings of democracy to me. An exuberant gaggle of 100-plus people lined up for the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Britain to stick close to its neighbors despite its exit from the European ...

The move reverses changes made by the last Conservative Government, which was accused of seeking to "stitch up" elections in ...

Bruno Leipold, in his book Citizen Marx, examines Marx’s early political writings and shows that “republican freedom suffused Marx’s critique of the social domination of capitalism”. Marx defined his ...

The joint Israeli-American destruction of the Iranian nuclear program raises the prospects for peace and prosperity in the ...

On the Fourth of July, contributing columnist Mike Vogel writes about what really matters, starting with the Bill of Rights ...

An exclusive investigation by openDemocracy has found that 377,000 children in England and Wales have been identified by local authorities as being at risk of domestic abuse in the past five years.

In the United States, on whose strategic direction and political and economic health the condition of the entire West chiefly ...