When Biden said the word from the Oval Office, it was official. In terms of democracy, America is heading in a third-world direction. It’s not hard to spot. Elon Musk has made himself Trump’s ...

To make it worse, Trump said of exploring a third term, “I’m not joking” — yet he would not further clarify his intentions. This could be Trumpian bluster, but then again, this is a president who ...

The Real World of Democracy is published by House of Anansi. ListenListen... C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and ...

The big picture: More than one-third of the world population now lives under authoritarian rule, according to the index. The overall global Democracy Index score has fallen from 5.52 in 2006 to a ...

Indonesia, which often bills itself as the world’s third-largest democracy, can take consolation that the United States and France fell into the same category of flawed democracies although they ...