A day after she gave President Donald Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ...

After a year of new leadership, court fights, dramatic change to the federal government, and deep political division, where ...

Despite widespread concern about declining levels of trust, Canadian analytics firm Environics finds that overall levels of ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...

"The Venezuela operation makes me very nervous. I'm worried about the competence of a lot of the officials involved" ...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told President Donald Trump during a private White House luncheon her party had a mandate to lead.

Venezuela’s road to democracy does not start or end with Trump’s extraction of Maduro, writes journalist Helena Carpio.

At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and ...

The removal of Nicolas Maduro from power is not enough to restore democracy in Venezuela, and a full transition to democracy ...

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit ...

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Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...