Two Broxtowe Nottinghamshire county councillors have been formally reported by a Nottingham city councillor who says they are ‘misleading’ the public over Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).

When families falter, the social fabric of democracy itself begins to fray. A strong democracy depends on strong families. It’s within families that children first learn empathy, responsibility and ...

No Kings, the government shutdown and health care price hikes, electric scooters on Pa. roads, readers weigh in.

From monarchies to democracies and everything in between, this breakdown reveals how different nations distribute power and authority. The video explores who truly governs, how decisions are enforced, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Presidents and representatives of African heads of state joined thousands of mourners at a state funeral service Friday for Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the ...

You could make a reasonable case that the Democrats’ present woes stem from the misuse of a single word. Their manic, unthinking resistance to everything President Trump says or does has its origins ...

Former President Obama, pictured at a 2020 campaign rally in Atlanta, stars in a new ad urging Californians to support Proposition 50, the redistricting ballot measure voters will decide in November. ...

“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 ...

Workers at a Ford plant in Michigan, 1920s. (Getty Images) The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American ...

Panelists at the forum “Democracy and Organized Crime in Latin America” held Thursday in Washington D.C. Interamerican Institute for Democracy Experts and former presidents warned that organized crime ...

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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 ...