Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

Liberal democracy contains a structural problem that its defenders rarely acknowledge. It is a procedural system for organising competition. It legitimises decision-making through votes, allocates pow ...

The health of America’s democracy declined in 2025, according to new evaluations from organizations that have long tracked how well democracies around the world are working. Source: Pew Research ...

Many philanthropists, be they foundation-based or individual grantmakers, are committed to defending democracy in America amid its present peril. Over the past decade, these donors have spent billions ...

There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: An important (and harsh) lesson I’ve learned over the past decade is that the virtues of political and economic ...

This past week, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo brought together some of the biggest names in the country’s political firmament to discuss the travails of Western liberal democracy in ...

According to ACLED data, there were over 200,000 incidents of political violence around the world last year. While a bulk of political violence is happening in conflict-torn regions in the Middle East ...

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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 takes ...

To judge by the tone of commentary coming out of Africa in recent times, liberal democracy could not be in a more perilous state, so perilous indeed that anywhere you look across the continent, ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...