The growing hyper-partisan polarisation that divides the country cannot be good for its democratic well-being.

That view jars with the impression conveyed by another, far more conspicuous, trend: the rise of Chinese nationalism. In ...

Looking at constituencies or issues misses the big point. On Tuesday, nihilism was on display, even a death wish, in a society wrought by cynicism.

I met with a government official preparing to resign and told him I was writing a book about the rise ... The narrative of liberalism and democracy collapsed. This spilled over into China, too.

Can the rise of a different kind of democracy help us to ease the collective feeling of Democratic Fatigue Syndrome?

Trump’s opponents are now muttering about the choice of Tim Walz, the influence of the Russians, the role of the right-wing ...

Americans have re-elected Donald Trump, choosing a convicted demagogue who champions power over principle. This historic turn raises a sobering question: Is the West’s beacon of democracy slipping ...

Peter Dutton could model himself on Donald Trump in a bid to woo disenchanted voters, who are tipped to lurch to the right at ...

The Trump campaign used a set of tried-and-tested cognitive tools – honed from the days of Cambridge Analytica’s ...

Voters are amending their state constitutions to protect reproductive freedom—and discovering the limitations of these ...

What lends unity to his book is the unwavering consistency of Navalny’s resistance. As a pro-democracy activist ... Navalny ...

Why Wilson Matters renews hope that the United States might again become effectively liberal by returning to the sense of realism that Wilson espoused, one where the promotion of democracy around the ...