Former President Bill Clinton spoke Tuesday at the "World Forum 2025 on the Future of Democracy, Tech and Humankind" in Berlin: BILL CLINTON: I think a lot of this problem we’re facing today is not ...

University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. University of Canterbury provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Despite being used in both the Principles of ...

One definition of "democracy," as listed in Webster's College Dictionary, is "majority rule." I have always thought that was the basic premise on which we held elections and decided on our laws in ...

Our American government never was intended to be a democracy. It is a republic, for the excellent reason that the nation’s founders understood the danger in pure democracy. Pure democracy amounts to ...

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

America held a free and fair election in which the majority’s preference for Donald Trump was clearly registered and will be respected. Unlike 2016, his election is no Electoral College fluke. If ...

How did we reach this point? Millions of Americans are watching helplessly while President Donald Trump and the Republicans relentlessly dismantle and defund important government programs that are ...

A majority of Americans oppose Donald Trump’s plans to use the U.S. military to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, to instruct the U.S. Justice Department to investigate his political rivals ...

TWO senior religious leaders used yesterday’s Majority Rule service to deliver pointed warnings to political leaders, criticising the politicisation of the national holiday and questioning why young ...

President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303 ...