History reminds us that progress has never come from moderation or retreat. It has come from people who refused to wait their ...

Though many are worried about the potential economic harm of Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the independence of the ...

The intrinsic benefits of democracy, including government accountability and personal freedoms, are acknowledged in many countries. Yet, average citizens and democracy advocates also ask, to what ...

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Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), was inaugurated as the sixth executive governor of the state on Feb. 24. Some residents of Ondo State have urged Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to ensure ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

These are tense times. Climate change threatens billions of people around the world. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is slowing. And 35 years after the end of the cold war, ...

Americans rightly consider democracy the best form of government. But we shouldn't get too carried away by this idea. Democracies are led by fallible humans. As James Madison put it, "If men were ...

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Valere Gaspard is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa and a Research Fellow at Western University and Trent University’s Leadership and Democracy Lab. His research is supported in part by ...