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Past politicians tried to undermine democracy. They failed because Americans refused to tolerate their wrongdoing

Sky News presenter tells Gove: ‘It’s a democracy. If they’ve been given a mandate, they’re not rigging the system’

We will look back at these months before the election and Donald Trump’s sentencing as relatively good times

Pro-democracy activists and Beijing loyalists lent a colourful backdrop to talks between Chinese 2IC Li Qiang and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

From troll farms to racist hate speech, nationalists’ bullying tactics are having a chilling effect on political journalism

James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin are starring in The Constituent, a play that asks if MPs are no longer safe. Here, its writer explores what politicians wearing stab vests means for democracy

Did Velvet Revolver produce an album to do the legacy of Guns N' Roses proud? Or was it just another under-achieving and short-lived side-project?

The first treasury secretary's plans would have created cartels that mainly benefited the wealthy at the expense of small competitors.

Charles de Gaulle famously complained that governing a country with 246 kinds of cheese was all but impossible. Less known is what De Gaulle said just before that: "Only peril can bring the French together". President Emmanuel Macron had peril on his mind when he stunned his compatriots by calling…