Humour and witticisms enrich life in a world often too obsessed with the serious and the mundane. And humourists are people ...

A woman's hand is marked with ink before casting her ballot in national elections April 22, 2009 in Alexandra Township, South Africa [John Moore/Getty Images] For far too long, African youth have been ...

Cabaret Voltaire’s world has always been strange though it was perhaps at its strangest between 1974 and 1982, before tracks like ‘Sensoria’ and ‘Just Fascination’ propelled them more forcefully onto ...

“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 ...

Speaking with democracy activists recently from Hungary and Poland, former President Barack Obama warned about the “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe,” even in countries once believed ...

The nation’s top economic statistician was fired. Central bank independence is being undermined. The federal government is buying chunks of private companies and demanding cuts of revenue streams.

From military crackdowns to silencing dissent, this Constitution Day reminds us all that we must fight to uphold our rights and preserve the rule of law. In 1952, seven years after the end of the ...

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts said, "I'm worried that President Trump is stretching the rubber band of democracy in ways it simply has never been stretched before." A rumor ...

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Editor: Winston Churchill famously described democracy as the worst form of government “except for all the others.” He was saying, in effect, that the governing of a nation can be messy, so let’s not ...

Lisa Schirch receives funding from the Ford Foundation. I know the founder of Pol.is and Remesh platforms, mentioned in this article, as well as Maria Ressa of Rappler Communities. I will not benefit ...

Jen Miller, executive director of Ohio’s League of Women Voters. She objects to proposed legislation that will make it more difficult to organize ballot initiatives through additional hurdles such as ...