Democracy

There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …

Netizens took to cyberspace to chastise the legal system, which they believed would treat Li Tianyi leniently because of his familyu2019s status, and to demand justice.

Unlike the US, Australia's system prevents the “buying” of elections and citizens are required to vote rather than being prevented from voting.

Today Congress is dumb, in cognitive diversity one of the dumbest in the world perhaps. But, it can smarten up rather easily on some simple electoral reforms.

Increases in payroll taxes, the Detroit bankruptcy and repression against protesters indicate the widening contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

Many are increasingly worried that when Juan Orlando Hernandez takes office, the country will experience further repression of social movements and the increased pillage of indigenous communities' land …

When aesthetic and economic criteria displace moral considerations and the search for intense pleasure and profits replaces the search for justice, a police state thrives, says Henry A. Giroux.

Romania's parliament rejects amendments to Romania's mining law to kick-start Rosia Montana.

There is nothing idealized about the difference between a society whose arrangements serve all its citizens and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud.

Henry Giroux: We have moved from a culture of questioning to a culture of shouting and in doing so have restaged politics and power in both unproductive and anti-democratic …