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MSNBC host Ali Velshi is drawing upon the personal past for an upcoming book about democracy

Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning elections. In the last few years, Europe has seen the rise of a number of authoritarian populists who rely on winning mass support among ordinary people – as…

Over 2 million people have already voted in the Voice to Parliament referendum according to the Australian Electoral Commission.

TMC's Abhishek Banerjee decries "black day for Indian democracy" as police detain him and other party leaders after sit-in at Union Rural Development Ministry. He accuses BJP of snatching rights of people of Bengal and Delhi Police of manhandling elected representatives. TMC to march to Raj Bhavan on Oct 5…

PM Modi reveals K. Chandrasekhar Rao sought BJP's support after GHMC polls. He declined to "cheat people of Telangana" and asked KCR about corruption. KCR wanted to handover power to son, but Modi said this is democracy, not a kingship.

As rightwing supermajority starts third term, legal experts ask how far it will go in reconfiguring the legal landscape of US

Biden calls out the "vengeance and vindictiveness" of an anti-American "extremist movement." Will the media notice?

"The strongest variable predicting a rise in the murder rate is trust in fellow Americans," says Rachel Kleinfeld

Editorial: Public spending hikes and pro-poor tax cuts might fix the economy and be popular enough to stop the far right

Donald Tusk says his ‘march of a million hearts’ is the last chance to save democracy in the country