The August 2025 poll for the India Today Mood of the Nation (MOTN) offers a telling portrait of Indian democracy in flux, marked by contradictions, anxieties and a measure of guarded optimism. In ...

During the 2024 campaign, voters were repeatedly told that democracy in America was under threat. Polls show that voters believed that — albeit for different reasons based on their political ...

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He pointed out that despite an ongoing election campaign, none of the major political alliances had prioritised reform in their public messaging ...

Condemning Kirk’s assassination, Obama described these attacks as threats to “the central premise of our democratic system,” namely that “we have to be able to disagree and have sometimes really ...

How inevitable is the decline of liberal democracy? For a brief, heady moment after the Cold War, liberal democracy seemed ...

One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian ...

A gunman entered the homes of two Minnesota lawmakers on June 14, killing one representative and her spouse and wounding the second couple. The incidents—which coincided with a major military parade ...

Winning an election is only the first step. For Bangladesh, the real test lies in turning votes into lasting institutions, accountable governance, and a resilient democracy ...

Venezuela’s road to democracy does not start or end with Trump’s extraction of Maduro, writes journalist Helena Carpio.

During the 2024 campaign, voters were repeatedly told that democracy in America was under threat. Polls show that voters believed that — albeit for different reasons based on their political ...