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Granting bail to Alt News journalist Mohammed Zubair on Friday, judge Devender Kumar Jangala held that dissent was necessary for a healthy democracy.

Economist Gerry Holtham said plans for an electoral closed party list system for increasing the number of Senedd members has to go

Jan. 6 rioter Stephen Ayres isn’t nearly as deserving of our sympathy as the U.S. Capitol police officers to whom he apologized this week.

These days, many proud progressives find themselves doing the once-unthinkable: heralding the work of staunch conservative Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. Cheney’s bipartisan co-leadership of the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol illustrates the importance of a politically diverse alliance to protect future elections…

July 14, 2022

Renfrewshire politicians rally round First Minister over independence by calling out Westminster's "Democracy Deficit"

One Conservative councillor described it as a ‘travesty’, adding it was ‘the night that democracy died in Oldham’

The FM launched a second indyref2 whitepaper comparing the two futures Scotland faces - under Westminster rule or as an independent country

Corporations are underwriting the thuggery of Trump and his allies – all because they want to pay as little tax as possible

Measured by the number of times he was quoted, Donald Trump played a fairly small supporting role in the action described in the Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday.

As a House select committee continues its deep dive into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, there has been some consolation for Marylanders that the major figures in the assault on democracy were not from around these parts. Not Donald Trump, who has never won an election in this state;…