Although it had been rare for there to be so much friction between current and former occupants of the Oval Office, Obama has ...

ANY law which invites random, individualistic interpretation by those responsible for enforcing that law is very dangerous. Firstly, those ...

The fiercest voices of dissent against President Nayib Bukele have long feared a widespread crackdown. They weathered police ...

India’s crackdown on Bengali-speaking migrants and now the revision of voter rolls in Bihar is an exclusionary exercise in ...

To mark another anniversary of the death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá on Tuesday, the National Endowment for Democracy honored the late Cuban opposition leader in a ceremony on Capitol Hill in ...

Harvard political scientist Ryan Enos sees President Donald Trump's bombshell indictment of former president Barack Obama as more than a president deflecting from his connection to convicted sex ...

The move to curb anti-corruption agencies risked "endangering the values of freedom, democracy in our country and the future ...

The anti-corruption agencies were created after pro-democracy protests in 2013. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy claims ...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, has pledged the commitment of the House under his leadership to leverage legislative instruments to promote gender equality and safeguard ...

Although Washington has long been a hotbed of direct democracy in the form of ballot measures that bypass or cancel legislative action, that trend may be on the decline.

Around the country, lawmakers are seeking to undermine or nullify voter-approved ballot measures. California's voters took ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later explained that Hayden, who was the first woman, Black person and professionally trained librarian to oversee the Library of Congress, had done “ ...