Allegations that the former French president accepted millions from Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi are uncomfortably relevant in the Trump era.

For young Russian dissenters monitoring the election, Putin's landslide victory is as demoralizing as it was predictable.

How yesterday’s champions of economic nationalism became today’s servants of the global elite

The civic republican tradition and its lost treasure

Donald Trump’s contempt for American political institutions is only the latest chapter in a history of opportunistic attacks against them. This has been happening for decades.

Harvard historian James T. Kloppenberg looks to the roots of American democracy. But is that enough?

With populism on the rise in both parties, it has become fashionable for elites to bash the masses. But we need more democracy, not less.

A GOP proposal to resolve the island's debt crisis would harm its economy, sideline its democracy, and boost corporate profits.

Constitutions were a great democratic advance. Unfortunately ours is broken.

Their politics are poles apart. But they're stirring similar emotions among alienated voters and anxious establishmentarians.

Why the dogma of democracy doesn't always make the world better

An international group of intellectuals meet in Kiev to discuss Ukraine's past, present and future

May 8, 1935

The Birth of Political Rhetoric in an Ancient Democracy