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Tunisian President Kais Saied said late on Wednesday he will dissolve municipal councils months before they were due to be elected, further dismantling the systems of government developed after the 2011 revolution that brought democracy. "We will discuss a decree to dissolve municipalities and replace them by special councils," he…

A 17th straight year of decline, but reasons for optimism.

PM Trudeau and Canadian security officials have acknowledged interference attempts by China in Canada’s elections.

When and how Washington congratulates foreign leaders on contentious election victories matters.

Editorial: A democracy would get the bailout the country needs. A dictatorship will find getting the money much harder

Less than three months after Argentina won its third soccer World Cup trophy in Qatar, there is growing excitement about the possibility that the country could take home another major prize – an Academy Award

President Joe Biden will convene world leaders beginning on March 29, 2023, to discuss the state of democracies around the world.

Author Justin Gest on why Americans need to start communicating with one another again

"Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote and to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty," the president said Sunday.