What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn’t working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the ...

Liberal democracy and capitalism represented the terminus of millennia of ideological evolution. Nations such as the U.S. and the member states of the European Union he termed “posthistorical ...

At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new ...

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Dream of a world where all nations would rally behind the ... universal agreement on the unparalleled strength of liberal capitalism and democracy does not exist. From the streets of Aleppo ...

Nevertheless, the verdict—which is very likely to keep Ms Le Pen from running in the 2027 French presidential election—has ...

indicated that South Korea since last year can be categorized as an "electoral democracy," falling outside the list of 29 countries deemed to be "liberal democracies." South Korea was one of 11 ...

VDem Institute has published the Democracy Report 2025, focusing on 25 Years of autocratisation globally. This is indeed worrying as Eswatini is also experiencing challenges regarding democracy, human ...

Again, we are a liberal democracy. We pride ourselves on free speech, that is important. New Zealand was one of the five eye countries that expressed its concerns about the Canadian case ...