eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor?s corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of ?bookservative? and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital tomes. ?Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I ...
Democratic setbacks in sub-Saharan Africa have outpaced once promising gains, says guest blogger Vukasin Petrovic from Freedom House.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday called for a renewal of democracy in Russia in his latest election manifesto greeted with scepticism by analysts after his 12-year domination of the country.
THE ANGRY crowd in City Council chambers in September held up signs blasting "Taxation Without Representation," but Paul Levy wasn't concerned.
Last year’s revolutions of the Arab Spring were, and remain, the greatest opportunity for...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia must give its people more political power but should not hastily follow foreign recipes for democracy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an article published on Monday, a month before a presidential election he is expected to win. Facing the biggest opposition protests of his 12-year rule as he prepares to return to the Kremlin, Putin acknowledged in a front-page ...
PARIS (Reuters) - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen accused the two major parties on Sunday of telling mayors across the country not to endorse her presidential candidacy, a move her allies said was "muzzling democracy". Despite strong public support, Le Pen says she is 150 signatures short of the 500 required from elected local officials in order to stand. Speaking at a campaign rally in ...
REPORTING FROM CAIRO -- Americans working for pro-democracy groups in Egypt have been ordered to stand trial on criminal charges of receiving illicit funding, a move certain to further strain relations between Washington and Cairo’s ruling army generals.
Egypt's foreign minister insisted Sunday that the government can't intervene in an investigation of foreign-funded pro-democracy organizations that is straining ties with the United States, but underlined Cairo's commitment to the relationship with Washington.
Myanmar's president Monday pledged to establish a "healthy democracy" after nearly half a century of iron-fisted military rule as he sought Singapore's help to modernise the creaking economy.