Newroz, the traditional spring festival of the peoples of the Middle East and Central Asia—particularly the Kurds and Persians—is being celebrated this year amid an eruption of imperialist barbarism ...

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...

An Afghan man who worked with the United States military for more than a decade was dragged away from his two children at the ...

Midterm election have begun in the United States. with primaries in key states that might ultimately impact the political party that controls Congress. Meanwhile, the current administration continues ...

Attacks by Israel and the United States are targeting Tehran and places across Iran. Shortly before the war began, people ...

Just two weeks into the war that he started, Donald Trump has resorted to begging other countries for assistance in securing the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on ...

Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s longest-serving chancellor. No other postwar Austrian politician elicits the same amount of reminiscing, stories, myths, and anecdotes. Today, over forty years after his ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978, according to new research assessing more than 200 ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient ...

Politics / Q&A / Laura Flanders speaks with Christopher Armitage and Sumathy Kumar about “soft secession” and building a government that actually works for people. Laura Flanders The courts are ...