Democracy

The president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, spoke this morning at the United Nations and delivered a powerful indictment of spying by the NSA on behalf of the United States.

An election confronts Maldivians with an important choice about their leadership and with implications for global climate justice.

India's upcoming elections are widely expected to be a game changer for the world's largest democracy. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by the charismatic but

A global war to resurrect a sense of

Are we witnessing the beginning of a transformation of US foreign policy? With groundswell public opposition to a war with Syria, Flowers and Zeese see such signs and recommend …

Film, depicting various human situations and inviting critical analysis as it does, can provide a mother lode of potential enlightenment.

Democracy may be one of the best of all the existing

After the three-term administration of billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, progressive candidates emerged as the clear winners of New York Cityu2019s primary elections earlier this week.

Since the founding of our nation, there's always been strong and clear distinctions between public space and private space, and between things that are done by the government and …

Henry Giroux: Public intellectuals must use their resources to question the authoritarian forces of war, violence and privatization threatening the planet.