Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is easy to see that being rich has its perks — courtside seats, lavish vacations and, increasingly, an outsized say in how our ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A hotel manager, overwhelmed with guests’ complaints about slow elevators, turned to elevator companies ...

Respondents in 24 countries were asked about different forms of governance, including representative democracy, direct democracy, autocracy, technocracy and military rule. Elements of representative ...

In our modern world, most states are democracies or at least call themselves “democratic.” The adoption of democracy is hailed as one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Once upon a time, humanity ...

That is the stark warning of the first-ever flagship report from the Afrobarometer, the African survey organisation based in Accra, Ghana. Based on nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, ...

When I lived in China, a decade ago, I often saw propaganda billboards covered in words that supposedly expressed the country’s values: Patriotism. Harmony. Equality. And … Democracy. Indeed, China ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

It is easy to see that being rich has its perks — courtside seats, lavish vacations and, increasingly, an outsized say in how our democracy works. Corporate political spending is already crushing ...