I GENERALLY CARE relatively little for the personal lives of people of note, but something that always nagged me just slightly about Edward Snowden’s 2013 re...

Why it's time for progressive parties to embrace ‘populism’ One of the more common trends in the political commentary of past years is to attempt to separate...

There are certainly good reasons to view Britain’s upcoming 12 December election as a de facto second Brexit referendum – just look at the central position t...

When I began to study democracy over a dozen years ago, few of the so-called cultural elite were in a rush to argue against it as a form of government. After...

What have the Romans ever done for us?” the actor John Cleese once asked, in a famous Monty Python sketch, before being forced to admit a long list of improv...

There is no democracy without equal participation Over the past few years, it has become quite fashionable to speak of ‘threats to democracy’. For many journ...

Roslyn Fuller, Professor at the Solonian Democracy Institute, on the Irish Brexit test After a week of upheaval, when the House of Commons rejected the count...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor with a background in the classics, published Democracy: A Lifein 2016. Our reviewer, Roslyn Fuller, comp...

"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at five stars" Roslyn Fuller interviews Eleonora Evi, MEP for Italy’s Five Star Movement [5SM] which has...

AS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY seems to take another downward bend in its own death spiral with each passing week, the United States might learn a few things from the...

A discussion between Katy Collins and Roslyn Fuller: Katy Collin, PhD in international relations, School of International Service, American University; speci...

AS THE UNITED STATES APPROACHES a most divisive presidential election, it is hardly surprising to see an upsurge in literature proposing to diagnose and cure...

“What is education?” Ruth Wangerin asks me, when I Skype the sociology professor at her home in New York. “Is education a good for its own sake? Is it a proc...

This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film 'Snowden' hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a presidential pardon fo...

The recent Brexit referendum revealed a deep societal rift about what the word ‘democracy’ means. To some, the term ‘democracy’ is inseparable from the idea ...

ANDREW SULLIVAN’S RECENT New York magazine essay, Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic, rattled many a reader and provoked a heated debate that spill...

Few elections in the Western world offer the spectacle that is an American presidential race. While Brits tend to keep a stiff upper lip when jockeying for p...

One of Ireland’s thicker politicians recently made the rather bold claim that the country was in danger of becoming "a lawless utopia." The ditzy comment spu...

The recent anti-corruption summit hosted by David Cameron in London has sparked a debate about just what corruption is, but hasn’t come up with any viable so...

How much you spend on your campaign still plays a large role in determining whether you win a seat , writes Roslyn Fuller. THE US AND Irish elections have mo...