Democracy

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were in high spirits, smirking and jovial, when they appeared in front of the press corps at the annual G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.

"No system of government was ever so ill-devised that, under proper men, it wouldn't work well enough." 10,000 years of human history later, we still fight wars over political ideology; as if…

As of Friday, the treaty had 49 signatories, and the United Nations said the 50th ratification from Honduras had been received

I just filled in my Washington State ballot. I believe in liberty and freedom for individuals and a limited government that focuses on protecting the rights of

Researchers at New York University are using a browser plug-in to gather info on how political advertisements are being targeted on Facebook. The social network has insisted they stop.

Both states experienced some problems during primary voting, but both feature significant voter enthusiasm.

Patreon will no longer support creator accounts on its platform that "advance disinformation promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. A "small number of creators" on Patreon have supported QAnon with their work, the platform says.

The 2020 presidential election again highlights one of the most confusing and controversial parts of the U.S. elections: The Electoral College.

People in Western cultures are poor at naming smells and flavors. However, for wine and coffee experts, describing smells and flavors is part of their daily routine. So are experts better than lay people at conveying smells and flavors in language? If smells and flavors are more easily linguistically expressed by experts, or more "codable", then experts should be better than novices at describing smells and…

At the courts and polls, President Trump and his allies move to limit voting. The GOP cites fraud, but voting rights advocates see an old foe: voter suppression.

New government data show a changing country

Sudan's former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi has slammed an announcement by President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel

The winner of the election will carry huge implications for various stock sectors. Two experts at Columbia Threadneedle shares their strategies.

A veteran observer of elections in troubled countries around the world describes the undeniable parallels.

Thailand's government and the country's pro-democracy movement appeared no closer to resolving their differences Saturday, as the protesters' deadline for Prime Minister to step down approached

Black lives matter. It's become a rallying cry for those seeking social and racial justice. These three words express the idea, symbolized by the death of George Floyd, that race defines the fault …

What wasn't said at the debates was as telling as what was.

The State Department is debating labeling Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Oxfam as "anti-Semitic" due to their stance on Israeli policies.

President Putin's keynote speech at the Valdai Club's 17th annual meeting devoted a significant amount of time to articulating his vision of what can be described as "Populist Statism", or the emerging hybrid model of a strong state system driven by c

Either we become a truly multiracial democracy or we cease to be a democracy at all.