With Uganda preparing for its next general election in January 2026, many are asking, do election observers still matter?

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A religious group is staging a big rally in the Philippine capital and other groups will protest separately in a democracy ...

Major opposition parties have criticised the Federal Government for arraigning 27-year-old Innocent Onukwume, who is accused of calling for a military coup on his 𝕏 handle. They described the ...

One of India’s most prestigious universities has been accused of compromising its academic freedom by cancelling a seminar on democracy the same day it issued a directive to staff to promote a summit ...

This cross-section of responses is part of the ongoing Between Us project, which examines the factors that contribute to ...

Trump noticed. Recall how Watergate unfolded. Burglars paid by the Nixon reelection campaign bugged telephones at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington’s Watergate complex. They ...

Just as important, the deal broke the stranglehold that “party unity” has over leaders, members and media at the Capitol, one that has turned Congress into a failed and dysfunctional institution ...

Convert it into a museum: Saikat Chakrabarti, a Democrat who’s running for retiring Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s seat in California, suggested turning the ballroom into a Smithsonian-run museum. If elected, he ...

On October 1, Congress allowed the government to close and turned poor and working people into bargaining chips in a budget fight.

The U.S. has a long and checkered history of intervening in Latin America. Here's what that may tell us about President Trump ...

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says he won’t scrap the agency’s controversial news distortion policy ...