Democracy

Allowing coordinated issue ads could undermine campaign finance and disclosure laws.

Leo Panitch on the death of Tony Benn: He conceived the need to democratize the state as the precondition for democratizing the economy.

Since 1945, dozens of governments, many of them democracies, have met a fate similar to that of the elected government of the Ukraine, usually with bloodshed, says John …

In seeking the death penalty for the accused Boston marathon bomber, Eric Holder violates his personal opposition, Boston public opinion and growing nationwide resistance to execution as criminal punishment.

Admittedly this is happening in states both new to democratic politics and deeply divided along ideological lines.

Bernie Sanders says he is “prepared to run for president of the United States.” But that's not a formal announcement.

There is no evidence that broad sectors of society, especially the urban poor who provide the most support to the government, have joined the protests initiated by middle and …

Ten years after the coup d'etat that ousted the democratically-elected government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti, political persecution and repression continue.

Tom Engelhardt: Citizen protest around the world is sparking not just disorganization, but what looks like, to coin a word, de-organization at a global level.

Nearly everyone is hailing this putsch and ignoring that it was spurred on by neo-Nazi militias, Robert Parry reports.