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Just over 30 years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, public opinion is divided over how to evaluate the post-apartheid, democratic state. Characterisations range from “failed or failing state”, to “mafia state” to the more optimistic “developmental state” committed to addressing historical patterns of injustice through decisive state intervention.

Hogg, vice chair of the DNC, spoke to Salon about launching primary challenges against lackluster Democrats

The United States would drastically reduce its diplomatic footprint in Africa and scrap State Department offices dealing with climate change, democracy and human rights, according to a draft White House order.

Mahmoud Khalil discussed the potential repercussions of his arrest for the country's freedom and democracy in a recent Washington Post op-ed.

Despite the challenges faced by local democratic activists, Thailand has often been an oasis of relative liberalism compared with neighbouring countries such as Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.

As Liberal MP Pam Damoff prepares to leave politics, she joins other Canadian women MPs in warning that growing threats and harassment are driving them out of politics.

Republican Jefferson Griffin, who lost a state supreme court race to Democrat Allison Riggs, is trying to flip the outcome

From trade wars to constitutional crisis, Trump gains more corrupt power as critics remain distracted

He claims frontman made band “miserable” every day