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Brennan Center lawyer: "I do not believe that there is any outcome in the US Supreme Court that is inevitable"

We’ve seen the opening salvo in a US effort to transform the transatlantic relationship. The future of democracy is in play

Court says the attack was a serious challenge to democracy and posed a significant danger to many people.

Although Australia has a strong and proud democracy, it nonetheless faces important challenges.

With the recent confirmations of Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – two of the most controversial of President Donald Trump’s high-level administration nominees – the president’s attempt to remake government as a home for political loyalists continues.

Journalist Katherine Stewart's "Money, Lies, and God" takes readers into Trump's movement to end America

The vice-president’s attack on European values signalled a historic realignment. Should the continent seek rapprochement or go its own way? ask Nathalie Tocci, Yanis Varoufakis and others

In the four weeks since he was inaugurated for his second term as US president, Donald Trump has issued dozens of executive orders – many of which are now the subject of legal challenges on the grounds they exceed his authority under the US constitution. As a result, some will…

The Atlantic contributor frets about religion, politics and America – and the questions he poses are existential

In slashing staff and disabling entire agencies the administration is lacerating the structures of US democracy

We are social beings. So, within every group, decisions must be made about how to live together, preserving wellbeing and relations with others. Historically, those decisions were made by tribal leaders, or monarchs and their courts. Yet the ancient states of Greece, needing collective commitment to the battles in which…