Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah who ruled Iran until 1979, says he is ready to lead the country to democracy. But some Iranians ...

“We actually do face a moment in which there is a fundamental choice between oligarchy and democracy,” Oxfam America senior ...

One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Friday she’s confident of her country’s eventual ...

Martin Luther King’s son and Norm Ornstein, a leading scholar of voting rights, discuss a case that could hollow out the ...

FRANKENMUTH, MI — No criminal charges are forthcoming in a dust-up between an off-duty Frankenmuth police officer and a ...

A recent book argues that reading fiction and non-fiction can promote relational, cognitive, and emotional qualities that ...

A prominent activist who organized Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square military crackdown ...

"Nepal is a fragile democracy trying — sometimes clumsily, sometimes bravely — to strengthen norms," writes . "America is a ...

India fares very poorly in global democracy rankings not because the problems are worse in the country, but because Indians ...

Kerry Washington was honored with the Elevate Prize Catalyst Award at the Democracy on the Screen – and on the Line event ...

Australians deserve principled political leaders who reflect the community’s strength and goodness at such difficult times ...