The wonderful thing about Donald Trump’s presidency (I never thought I’d begin a column this way), is that he brings us back to basics. The basic difference between a democracy and a dictatorship ...

It was 1776. The US was a baby nation-state. It was very proud of itself for its radical new democracy, the first, it was claimed, since the ancient Greeks. Great decision-making power was conferred ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration: Lex Villena; Gage Skidmore Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "It's a potentially very, very dangerous opinion with respect to things that Donald Trump never did. He could have sent the ...

Legal experts, political advisors and scholars from across the political spectrum are warning that a second term for Donald Trump could mean effectively ending democracy in America, a threat they say ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that ushered in a brutal military ...

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of ...

If you thought being a white, Christian mother raising your family in suburbia protected you from Trump’s masked paramilitary thugs, think again, and consider VP Vance’s announcing that his and ...

I do not imagine that there are more than a handful of Salon readers who are not familiar with the danger of electing Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States for a second time. It is not ...