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It was hard to escape the sense of the absurd as a 21st-century democracy relived a medieval fantasy

Raising the age to retire, in the face of public dissent, might be president Macron’s last stand in an outdated constitution

Turkey's opposition alliance has vowed to reverse many of President Tayyip Erdogan's policies if elected in a May 14 election, including a return to a parliamentary democracy and economic orthodoxy, and a major shift in foreign policy.

Current campaign financing drives corruption and ill-advised loyalties to political action committees, a reader from Merrionette Park writes. Politicians should be paying attention to the will of their constituents but instead are too often beholden to their heavy contributors.