The word democracy comes from the Greek word dēmokratia, derived from dēmos (“people”) and kratos (“rule”), and therefore means rule by the people. It comprises a set of values, mainly people’s ...

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 ...

A FRENCH COURT has found Marine Le Pen, the leader of the country’s far-right movement, guilty of embezzlement of EU funds and has barred her from running for office for five years. The ban ...