They also happen to have the most press freedom on the planet. Reporters Without Borders (or RSF, to use the initialism for ...

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy.

new video loaded: Are We Losing Our Democracy? transcript While the United States is not yet close to a full-on autocracy, the New York Times editorial board outlines some of the warning signs of ...

The FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home on Jan. 14, 2026, was a rare and intimidating move by an administration focused on repressing criticism and dissent. In its story about the search ...

Houston, we have a problem … And I mean Houston literally and humorously. America today is pretty much an autocratic plutocracy. That is a technical political term: “a system of governance where ...

The Reintroduction of Environmental Sanitation in LagosBefore I go into the word for today, allow me to comment briefly on the reintroduction of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Lagos ...

Protests erupted in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in October 2020 following disputed parliamentary elections. Only four political parties out of 16 had passed the threshold for entry into ...

The state of mind with endlessly branching emotions is written in Chinese characters as 정서 (emotions). The latter character, ‘서,’ originally means a "clue" that can unravel a tangled thread. It also ...