In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It is perhaps not surprising that at a time of extreme political anxiety ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Ninety-two years ago this month, on Monday morning, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed the 15th chancellor of the Weimar Republic. In one of the most ...

NEOSHO, Mo. — Democracy is on display at Neosho’s Crowder College. Through September 8, Crowder’s Longwell Museum is playing host to Voices and Votes-Democracy in America, which is a traveling ...

2024 was the year of the vote. More than 60 countries – home to nearly half the planet’s population – selected their leaders. In the history of democracy, it is a first. In the history of humankind, ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

Long before European governments or their colonies began to embrace "democracy," something far more democratic was widely practiced in the world's vast ungovernable spaces. Black Sam Bellamy's 1717 ...

Churches and their leaders from time immemorial have thought of themselves as the good guys in society, particularly due to their devotion to the important civic virtues of honesty, good faith and ...

Those of us who have studied the history of Rome know that you can’t debauch a democratic republic overnight. Many Democrats think Trump did it by issuing some hundred Executive Orders, give or take, ...

The guilty verdict against the former president could prove a historic opportunity to consolidate democracy, or begin a new ...