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Good news for democracy in Iran – words which in recent times, particularly in western news reports, are rarely seen in the same sentence. But the election of Masoud Pezeshkian as president of Iran must be seen as a positive development.

Democrats will be impotent messengers on democracy as long as they remain beholden to the feudal culture this crisis has exposed

The Atlantic article sparks debate by suggesting President Biden should resign for democracy's sake, proposing Vice President Harris as successor.

With democracy at a moment of maximum peril, millions were pinning their hopes on the Democratic party as a last wall of defence – but the debate changed that

The journalist, and critics, accuse the Italian PM of leading the country towards authoritarianism

President Biden's response to Trump's potential re-election and the global struggle between democracy and autocracy.

Jan Brewer has had it with election denialism – and she’s speaking out to defend poll workers across the political divide

According to the court, a rogue prosecutor is somehow more dangerous to US rule of law than a rogue commander-in-chief

Younger Mongolians helped deliver a setback to the ruling party in last week’s parliamentary elections after three decades of democracy but it’s unclear if the country is headed for a major changes

Democracies are no better than other forms of government at avoiding catastrophic mistakes. But they are much more effective at rectifying them. While the 2024 British general election might have seemed a long time coming, as the country meandered from one failure to the next, the utter scale of defeat…

New Zealand left with one state-owned English language network as shrinking news landscape prompts fears over impact on democracy