The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to ...

Last week was another moment in the long, unfolding theatre of governance under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It was a week in which the President moved from one gathering to another, but the ...

The dust may not have fully settled on the conventions of what is gradually emerging as the three main political parties in the country, the All Progressives Congress, African Democratic Congress and ...

Our American government never was intended to be a democracy. It is a republic, for the excellent reason that the nation’s founders understood the danger in pure democracy. Pure democracy amounts to ...

I was sitting in a local park watching a small group of boys play tag football. They spent a long time setting up the sidelines and endzones, using some trees, backpacks and discarded sweatshirts as ...

The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a ...

By Richie Tepuke Pautangata Legal Commentator Solomon Islands faces repeated constitutional crises where opposition motions clash with executive power. From Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele’s national ...

Academics have long lamented the decline of liberal democracy in Alberta and elsewhere.

Democracy -- or something approaching it -- is coming to the New York State Senate. If the reforms that Democrats and Republicans agreed to last week stick, then the costly month-long shutdown that ...