“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

Protesters hold signs in the Missouri State Capitol rotunda on Jan. 21 in Jefferson City. (Dominick Williams/dowilliams@kcstar.com) The people of Missouri have enjoyed direct democracy for nearly 120 ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece ...

For decades, US foreign policy has adopted the pattern of ‘selective liberation’—the deployment of human rights language when ...

There just isn’t evidence of significant election cheating—but that won’t stop the GOP from pushing its dangerous SAVE ...

Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

In football, an indirect free kick inside the 18-yard box is a paradox. The ball must touch another player before a goal can be scored, yet the tension is usually palpable – defenders crowd the line, ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of ...

With municipal elections on the horizon this year in several Canadian provinces and territories, local councils have the ...

The people of Missouri have enjoyed direct democracy for nearly 120 years. It’s little appreciated, though, how much benefit a century’s worth of citizen-initiated petitions has produced for our state ...

Oscar-nominated film 'The Secret Agent' shows how history is an essential tool for resisting authoritarianism.