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US democracy proved precarious on January 6 for the same reason it's been thwarted around the world.

The 1923 Beer Hall Putsch is being invoked as a cautionary tale for Washington in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol.

A dragnet is expanding around those affiliated with the city's pro-democracy movement, with more than 100 arrested under the security law.

A Capitol police officer dies amid the latest fallout from the rampage in Washington by Trump supporters. The U.S. is the real banana republic.

Hong Kong police early Wednesday arrested at least 53 pro-democracy advocates over their roles in last year's unofficial vote to choose opposition candidates in city elections. Authorities said the vote was part of a plan to 'overthrow' the government in the semi-autonomous, China-ruled former British colony. The arrests amounted to the biggest roundup of democracy advocates yet under a new national security law…

Dozens of former lawmakers and opposition activists were arrested Wednesday morning in Hong Kong, on suspicion of violating the city's sweeping national security legislation, in the biggest crackdown yet since the law was imposed by Beijing last year.

President Donald Trump has come to terms with his election loss, according to sources, but he's still fighting to overturn the results because he likes the attention.The president has confided to one person that he was "just disappointed we lost," but he's come to accept his loss in recent weeks and...

The sudden arrest of dozens of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, in the most sweeping use of a new national security law to date, is a clear sign of Beijing's determination to rein in political opposition in the former British colony.

Over 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of violating the city's national security law, local media reported, in the...

In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any...

Old narratives about the city fell apart this year, but new ones can still be born.

Chung was the first public political figure prosecuted under the new security law, which Beijing described as a "sword" to return "order and stability" to Hong Kong.

Prosecuted and disqualified, Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers resign en masse

Trump failed to steal the election because of incompetence, not because our robust institutions defeated him.

A newspaper tycoon who is one of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists is due in court on Saturday after being charged under the city's new...

The Philippine president has ruled out any cease-fire or resumption of long-stalled peace talks with communist guerrillas and renewed a vow to destroy the insurgents in his last two years in office.

The US intelligence chief on Thursday branded China as "the greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide since World War II," as Washington clamped down hard on travel visas for members of the Chinese Communist Party. US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, writing in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, pointed to China's theft […]

So much went wrong in 2020. There has been death, suffering and immense anxiety. But our nation will be stronger

It could dramatically alter Joe Biden's Middle East strategy.

The conservative conflation of queer aesthetics and anti-capitalism ideology has a storied history in the U.S.