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JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference critiques European leaders on free speech, immigration, and democracy, sparking debate and reflection.

The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.

Federal parliament has passed the biggest changes to Australia’s electoral funding laws in decades.

In 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama predicted we were approaching the end of history. He meant that similar liberal democratic values were taking hold in societies around the world. How wrong could he have been? Democracy today is clearly on the decline. Despots and autocrats are on the rise.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor emphasizes the importance of upholding court decisions and the rule of law in a speech at Miami Dade College.

For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term look like an unprecedented effort to roll back democracy and the rights and liberties of American citizens.

The former Chief Justice Dr DY Chandrachud faced tough questions on BBC HARDtalk. A must read on Dynamite News:

When I was a child, I lived in a very politically engaged household. My parents were always talking politics, and my dad in particular was often growling at the television when the face of someone he disagreed with appeared on it.

While the first world war and the Spanish civil war had already drawn children in Europe and beyond into the orbit of conflict, the second world war marked a pivotal period in how young people have experienced the horrors of war.