Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

Many philanthropists, be they foundation-based or individual grantmakers, are committed to defending democracy in America amid its present peril. Over the past decade, these donors have spent billions ...

Liberal democracies include the above, as well as "judicial and legislative constraints on the executive along with the protection of civil liberties and equality before the law." ...

There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: An important (and harsh) lesson I’ve learned over the past decade is that the virtues of political and economic ...

This past week, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo brought together some of the biggest names in the country’s political firmament to discuss the travails of Western liberal democracy in ...

Francis Fukuyama, one of the finest political commentators of modern times, emphasised the idea of liberal democracy in his writing by stating, 'I argued that liberal democracy may constitute the 'end ...

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Over the last twenty years, two significant trends have rocked world politics. One is the rapid global spread of connectivity through the internet, smartphones, and social media. The other is the ...

According to ACLED data, there were over 200,000 incidents of political violence around the world last year. While a bulk of political violence is happening in conflict-torn regions in the Middle East ...

To judge by the tone of commentary coming out of Africa in recent times, liberal democracy could not be in a more perilous state, so perilous indeed that anywhere you look across the continent, ...