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Journalist Thomas Ricks on why Americans have been "given a flat narrow story" of the fight for democracy in the US

With higher education centres turning into carriers of political propaganda, there is little room for academic freedom or informed public discourse

‘Freedom is never truly won. You earn it and win it in every generation,’ vice president says, quoting Coretta Scott King,

Brexit leader says Trump is ‘going to win this caucus this evening by quite a big margin’

‘I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I think that in this next election, I would put policy aside and choose democracy,’ said an ex-Trump White House aide

The false belief the 2020 election was stolen is part of some Trump voter’s ideology, while others are turned off by his legal woes

It’s an odd thing, watching people raised in liberal democracies support totalitarian regimes, and it fascinates me, because democracies are peculiarly vulnerable from within. What, when British people call for victory for Hamas, rather than the Palestinians of Gaza who have not elected a government since 2006, or the Houthis…

Mr Scaramucci said he is ‘100 per cent’ throwing his support behind Mr Biden’s re-election if Mr Trump is the GOP nominee

We now "treat it like a day to celebrate King and we ignore the fact that all these other things are going on"