I QUOTE from the Stabroek News (SN) editorial of November 16, 2025: “Dictatorships are all very much alike, whether it be Russia or Venezuela or a host of ...

A coup toppled his government in 1948, and democracy would not reemerge in Venezuela for another decade. By then Betancourt ...

The centerpiece of 250 years of American democracy has been how our courts have interpreted and decided the legality of laws passed by Congress and executive orders issued by Presidents, based on the ...

When Chilean troops encircled La Moneda Palace in central Santiago on September 11, 1973, to overthrow the elected president, José Antonio Kast was just seven years old. He was too young to fully ...

Today, the country is grappling with growing economic inequality, an acute housing crisis, and disenchantment with democracy itself ...

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday called on Spaniards to defend the "miracle" of their democracy as the divided ...

Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor (prime minister) because his party, the National Socialist Party (Nazi), received more votes in parliamentary elections in 1932. Hitler cynically used the ...

We are watching what I never thought possible — the transformation of our democracy into a dictatorship (or, as President Donald Trump promoted, a monarchy with him as king). The battle of the day is ...

The Institute of Political and Social Sciences (ICPS), a consortium of the UAB and the Barcelona Provincial Council, has presented a new monograph ...

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison, ...