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From South Korea to the United States, there are multiplying signs of democratic crisis in today’s world. The root of the problem is the permanent tension between capitalism and democratic freedoms, ...

Political polarization in the U.S. is at the highest level ever measured. Growing majorities of both Republicans and Democrats say they consider members of the other party to be unintelligent, ...

Donald Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of the more than 1,500 people convicted in connection with the January 6, ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

Donald Trump, on the first day of his second term as president, used a two-prong attack to target his most pernicious enemy – ...

Over recent decades, a computer programmer and prolific internet commenter has risen from the obscurity of forums and ...

At first glance, President Donald Trump’s second inauguration seemed like a continuation of the country’s nearly ...

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But the shocking scenes of the attack on our Capitol, to subvert a national election, also served as a wake-up call. For many, like us, it was clear that for the sake of our democracy and its future, ...

During Monday’s inauguration, Donald Trump repeated his threat to retake the Panama Canal. The United States controlled the ...