When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature, turning it into a body that ...

There is a growing consensus among many notable political scientists and historians that America is at a perilous crossroads; ...

Let’s be clear: even the worst civilian administration, with all its flaws, is infinitely better than the most efficient ...

Much of the country is afraid: afraid of the government. Afraid of their fellow citizens. Afraid U.S. laws will no longer ...

"The disease gets worse and worse every year, and the only remedy that will have permanent effect is to abolish private ownership of industry and ...

As he was being brought to the hospital after an assassination attempt, former vice president Emmanuel Pelaez asked Gen Tomas Karingal, the chief of the Quezon City Police, “What is happening to our ...

Raila Amolo Odinga, who died on 15 October 2025, aged 80, ran five times for the Kenyan presidency but didn’t win.

The recent wave of youth-led protests across South Asia, particularly in Nepal, preceded by similar upheavals in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, characterized by increasing violence, looting, and vandalism ...

President Dina Boluarte this month became the third Peruvian leader to be impeached in five years. With an approval rating ...

A startling message came over the radio from an air traffic control tower near Los Angeles less than a week into the federal government shutdown: “The tower is closed due to staffing.” Without enough ...

Democracies rarely fall overnight - they erode piece by piece. In this talk, Ian Bassin explains how authoritarianism often begins quietly, disguised as law, order, or security. By the time citizens ...

Two detectives and an interpreter were there to place the 82-year-old retired army general under arrest for crimes committed ...