Overcentralising power can only strengthen autocracy. Perhaps it’s time to refresh Gandhi’s idea of ‘village republics’ ...

M uch has changed in Dhaka six months after a popular uprising forced the Awami League government to resign and Prime ...

Hasina responded in kind to India’s gestures and during her 15-year-rule ... mob justice are being reported. The crackdown on journalists and the Opposition mocks his claim of restoring ...

Elon Musk, and the rest of the billionaires who fawn over Trump amount to a kleptocracy. We must stop the this madness.

They understood the dangers that a direct democracy, with the potential for mob rule, brings to elections. James Madison warned that: [In a direct democracy], [a] common passion or interest will ...

and protects the states’ legitimate magistracy against mob rule. The primary purpose of the Guarantee Clause, however, was not protection against pure democracy but against monarchy. Based on ...

The violence forced politicians to take cover amid gunfire that claimed the life of a woman shot after the mob broke through ... on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law under President ...