POINTE DU HOC, France — President Biden returned to Normandy on Friday to hail the U.S. Army Rangers who scaled the cliffs of this seaside town eight decades ago in defense of freedom and democracy, ...

In practice, most of our experiences of shared realities are not involved in truth. Think of myths, neighbourly feeling, or ...

Bangkok — Myanmar's government announced Monday it had carried out its first executions in nearly 50 years, hanging a former National League for Democracy lawmaker, a democracy activist and two men ...

Western governments and rights groups condemned Tuesday the jailing of 45 pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong in the city's largest national security trial. Criticism immediately followed the ...

“In our schools our coming generations must learn the most difficult art in the world—the successful management of democracy.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Statement on Education. October 2, 1939 One of the ...

It’s a sign of our troubled times that when asked about the health of their democracies, millions of citizens curse politicians, complain about poor government performance, and express fears that ...

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain and the beginnings of the American ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...