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Created as a constitutional afterthought, the system now holds millions of voters hostage to a handful of counties

Trump's conspiracy theory was vague and self-centered, but Vance's version is about justifying a radical ideology

Letters: Labour’s warning to its MPs against tabling amendments to government bills will harm democracy, thinks Victor Anderson. William Wallace fears party whips want to stifle reasoned debate

As the 2024 election nears, Americans express deep divisions on key issues, with inflation and the state of democracy significantly influencing preferences.

PM dismisses criticism that a plan to temporarily stop accepting asylum applications violates human rights

China’s President Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to a province facing Taiwan, following military exercises mobilizing China’s navy, air force, missile force and land troops to simulate a blockade of the self-governing island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force

Senator Bernie Sanders voices concern over Trump's threats to democracy and emphasizes the importance of upholding democratic values in the US.

As Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) prepares to leave office, Indonesia is still routinely lauded as one of Asia’s most important democracies. Jokowi was first elected, in 2014, on the promise of breaking with the old Jakarta elite and making government more responsive to ordinary people.

“Bothsidesism” is a term of disparagement against a form of journalism that presents “both sides” of an issue without any regard for their relative evidentiary merits.