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After the triumph of markets and democracy, the seemingly eternal human desire for struggle and heroism dies away, replaced by the flabby longing for comfort and ease.

Twenty-five years after Francis Fukuyama's landmark essay, liberal democracy is increasingly beset. Its defenders need to go back to the basics.

Framing the bill as a fulfillment of his campaign promises, Trump said: "We made promises, and it's really promises made, ...

President Trump signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law at a Fourth of July party on the White House lawn Friday.

In Contesting Democracy, Jan-Werner Müller, a German-born, British-educated political scientist who teaches at Princeton, traces the central ideological narratives of European politics during the ...

Saving Democracy. Donald Tusk, now Poland's prime minister, during meeting with people in the Jagodno district of Wroclaw, where people voted until 3 a.m, on November 6, 2023 in parliamentary ...

A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing. The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country ...

In Israel’s vibrant, full-frontal democracy, the new government is as multi-ethnic as it is multi-party. It brings together factions from the left, right and centre.

T he world’s biggest electorate has just shown how democracy can rebuke out-of-touch political elites, limit the concentration of power and change a country’s destiny. After a decade in charge ...

A ccording to Richardson, the unending struggle between American democracy and oligarchy began with the birth of the nation. Many historians of early America have argued that the ideology of the ...

There's a triumph of democracy on the birthday of democracy." Declaring a new era, Trump said: "The Golden Age of America is upon us. We are in the golden age.