A Hong Kong court will deliver its verdict in the national security case of former pro-democracy newspaper founder Jimmy Lai ...

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Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down ...

In this fast-paced and engaging book, Keane tells the story of societies across the ancient and modern eras struggling for self-government. Democracy’s journey is best seen not as the steady march of ...

Loren DeJonge Schulman speaks Sept. 15 at the Service to the Citizens Award ceremony. (Wyatt Kash) The federal government’s incremental improvements to deliver high-impact services in recent years may ...

Our political environment has become marked by claims about a particular party being for or against democracy. How do we tell who is telling the truth? Why does it matter that we preserve democracy? A ...

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

After winning an unexpectedly large electoral victory in November 2022, Benjamin Netanyahu went on to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s history. Its ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox ...

In a Times/Siena survey, respondents’ concerns about democracy often diverged from typical expert analysis. By Nate Cohn A rally called Save America last week in Mesa, Ariz. People have very different ...

The present strategy describes the comprehensive approach adopted by the Federal Government and the fundamental objectives and target groups for the various measures. It is based on the following ...