“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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The mainstream media has fallen in line with the governments of the UK and Sweden to dispute the legitimacy and significance of the...

These are tumultuous times for democracy. Syriza’s meteoric rise and partial fall was joined by one of the most statistically skewed...

As many countries show, technology can bring decision making closer to the voters. He who says organization, says oligarchy. So wrote...

I left Canada as a teenager over 15 years ago, first to study abroad, then to live and work in Europe. You get used to a lot of things...

National democracies today often present a bleak picture with fractured electorates dominated by minority parties that come to power...

Nearly one in every hundred people on Earth today has been forced to flee their home in search of safety elsewhere. The vast majority are...