democracy

Many people ask me how the United States can claim to promote human rights after its abandonment of Afghan women — and its inability to move China on ...

President Joseph Robinette Biden gave a fine inaugural address Wednesday. Instead of celebrating American might, as new presidents so often do in inau...

This year’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day comes less than two weeks after a violent white mob, inspired by entrenched racism and dressed u...

Raise your hand if you are exhausted from the incessant political turmoil that continues to unfold in the United States. While almost everyone is hopi...

Death and destruction did not stop Congress from its mission to certify the election of the next president of the United States. Shell-shocked by what...

Sometimes it feels like democracy is just too dysfunctional. Voters are disengaged and uninformed. Congress is hyperpartisan — and so self-serving it ...

“We the People. …” That phrase has endured for 244 years as the pillar of the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as America’s triumphant experiment in...

President Donald Trump characteristically and falsely declared Wednesday morning that he had won reelection. Although that might yet come to pass, the...

Democrats and Republicans alike missed the point on Wednesday, when members of the Senate Commerce Committee had their last chance before the election...

Plato argued that the longer a democracy endured, the more democratic it would become. America is the world’s oldest democratic republic, and indeed f...

Democracy on the line I got to thinking about this upcoming presidential election and wondered whether the last 3 1/2 years have been a ruse, a way to...

The photos of suffragists marching in their white gowns suggest a movement calm and elegant and a cause self-evident and benign. We often recall the q...

Since Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, after a century of British rule, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has always had the authority to interven...

WASHINGTON — Among the recent garbled effusions from today's temporary president — cheer up; they are all temporary — was one that concerned something...

Not sure if they were naive or brave, but the two cheerleaders at Pitt-Bradford who took a knee during the national anthem before a recent basketball ...

In his inaugural address President Donald J. Trump pledged to return the power to the people. On Saturday morning, between 3 and 4.6 million marchers ...

WASHINGTON — The hallmark of a democracy is the peaceful transfer of power following an election. An essential, if painful, corollary of that rule is ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — This year's Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, collected their award in Norway on Thursday, appeal...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — With tremendous excitement and hope, millions of citizens voted Sunday in Myanmar's historic general election that will test wh...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia's newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had pr...