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Political tumult is now the norm in the country | The Americas (2024)
The real threat from Europe’s hard right. Europe is facing a new wave of right wing populism. Centrists need a new plan. In Germany, the AfD are ... (2023)
The obscure-sounding “notwithstanding clause” is actually rather dangerous | The Americas (2022)
The “notwithstanding clause” lets politicians nullify citizens’ rights. It needs to go | Leaders (2022)
It is not just sectarianism that is ailing the body politic | Leaders India’s democracy is not as healthy as this month’s elections make it seem... (2022)
In 1988 The Economist invited the philosopher Karl Popper to write an article on democracy. It appeared in the issue of April 23rd that year and ma... (2021)
President Nayib Bukele is proving even less of a democrat than his opponents feared | The Americas (2021)
They overthrew the government. Now they have to work out how to govern “Fork” is used in open source communities to describe the process of crea... (2021)
More than 900 million people — over 10 percent of the world’s population — could head to the polls over several weeks. The government is committed ... (2019)
On Socialism - In the age of A.O.C., the lesson must be learned again. (2019)
Law creates new top court overseen by justice minister. Opposition attempts to stop vote create tumultuous scenes (2018)
The invasion of Czechoslovakia did more than shatter the hopes of a country. It laid bare the totalitarian nature of the Communist regime. (2018)
Allies on Election Day, the two wings of the Democratic Party are growing further estranged in other aspects of their lives... (2018)
YouTube is banning instructional and promotional firearm videos. The battle over firearms has officially entered the digital realm. YouTube anno... (2018)
Election officials have insisted that machines can’t be remotely compromised because they’re not “connected to the internet.” But security experts ... (2018)
IN AUGUST voters endorsed Thailand’s latest constitution in a tightly controlled referendum that offered no alternative to the draft put forward by... (2018)
TURKEY'S president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has held power for the past 13 years, first as prime minister and since 2014 as president, longer than an... (2018)
DONALD TRUMP, the populist American president-elect, wants to deport undocumented immigrants. Podemos, the populist Spanish party, wants to give im... (2018)
TURKS go to the polls this Sunday, April 16th, to choose between the parliamentary system they have lived under for nearly a century and a new cons... (2018)
EVER since the late 1990s, international observation of elections has become so widespread that refusing to admit monitors is almost an outright ad... (2018)
TODAY, August 4th, Rwanda’s president of 17 years, Paul Kagame (pictured), will be re-elected for a third term (the result is not in question). Thi... (2018)
POLAND represents a dilemma for the European Union (EU). Since coming to power in October 2015, the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS in Polish... (2018)
President Temer may be ousted just like his predecessor, Dilma Rousseff, prompting fears the country’s political institutions may struggle to regai... (2017)
The former president could be jailed within days after Supreme Court judges ruled against him. (2018)
Felicitas Carrique Contributor Share on Twitter Felicitas Carrique is an Argentinian reporter focused on media, technology, and innovation. The abu... (2018)
The Cambodian government's current clampdown—now in its third year—is shaping up as both the most sustained since the early 1990s and the first to ... (2017)
For many years, Latin America’s largest democracy was a leader on data governance. In 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a... (2020)
Stephania Taladrid writes about Spain’s continuing struggle to come to terms with atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War and during the ... (2019)
Row over government’s decision to approve legislation giving executive greater control of supreme court and appointing of judges CFR: “EU Issue... (2017)
How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country? … “ is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in ... (2021)
Brazil’s supreme court ruled Wednesday that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has to start serving a 12-year prison sentence immediately, ... (2018)
This short film by Stanley Nelson explores the impact of bias within public accommodations as well as the possibilities for a better future. (2018)
Italy is in the throes of a turbulent race to elect a new prime minister. John Oliver discusses the colorful contenders and introduces an equally r... (2018)
Puerto Rico's current relationship to the United States is as complicated as its past relationship with the United States. Produced by Paul Myers w... (2018)
How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pest... (2018)
Researchers say one of the operation's goals was to steer left-leaning voters away from the Biden-Harris campaign ahead of the November election. (2020)
In the final chapter of our series, we find that many who are rejecting the political system and values that underpin the European Union feel the s... (2019)
The nationalist governing party says it’s in favor of democracy — just not the kind represented by the European Union. We look at how it is reshapi... (2019)
On The Sidelines Of Democracy: In recent midterms, 4 in 10 eligible voters cast ballots. Nonvoters talk of apathy, disgust, barriers and other ... (2018)
The 1996 law is praised by the tech industry as the core pillar of Internet freedom. But its path also runs through some of the darkest corners of ... (2018)
The Economist, 2017: “Twitter, Facebook and Google were supposed to improve politics. Instead, from Russian meddling in America's election to polit... (2017)
Whether in corporations, boardrooms, or political elections, voting is something we see in all kinds of social systems... including blockchains. It... (2019)
From the former news policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democra... (2021)
PredictIt is a New Zealand-based prediction market that offers prediction exchanges on political and financial events. PredictIt is owned and opera... (2020)