U.S. Sen. Todd Young listens during Indiana's oath of office ceremony Jan. 9, 2023, at the Indiana Statehouse. Hoosiers Young and Gov. Eric Holcomb, on the left, are both sitting out the Republican ...

For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme: that institutions at the heart of ...

As Ethiopia formally counts the votes following Monday's election, attitudes toward democracy appear to be shifting across ...

In November, the world's most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Recently there has been a great deal of discussion about what makes our country great and about ...

Switzerland is the only country in Europe that practices direct democracy: citizens get to vote on important changes to the constitution, rather than leaving it up to the politicians and government.

That is the stark warning of the first-ever flagship report from the Afrobarometer, the African survey organisation based in Accra, Ghana. Based on nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, ...

Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as a 'typical example of where democracy is dying,' citing a lack of accountability and elite capture of the state. Obi ...

Here's what community members had to say in three recent letters to the editor we received. Submit your own thoughts here. Each Sunday, I have Alexa remind me to tune on “In Focus’’ before I leave for ...