The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest — it’s the right to speak truth to power.

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This was my first experience with the entrenched gender inequality that defines life for women in Myanmar. But this bias ...

those movements are both more likely to succeed and more likely to lead to more egalitarian democracy.” To effectively resist authoritarianism, we must understand its gendered roots and cultivate a ...

In a country where justice is often elusive, Mario Joseph was a fearless crusader who didn’t care whether his opponent was ...

Obasanjo stated that Africa's adoption of Western-style democracy has not served its citizens effectively, arguing that the system is alien to African values and governance structures. Former ...

No longer marching in the rodeo parade, the San Angelo Equity Alliance is instead holding a picnic prior to the event in City Park instead.

In his attacks on American law firms, Donald Trump has — in a way that is becoming increasingly impossible to explain away — ...

In the United States, democracy’s foundational values — liberty, justice and the rule of law — are under direct assault by the Trump administration’s open use of authoritarian tactics.