Mr. Schmemann is a member of the editorial board. Democracy, it is often heard these days, is in crisis. The election of Donald Trump and news of political turmoil in many other democracies has ...

Washington — President Trump delivered an inaugural address after he was sworn in for a second term Monday, promising that he ...

ESSEX Police is set to make every one of its 99 police community support officers (PCSOs) redundant due to a huge funding ...

Since 2017, a few years after Bezos acquired the Post, its masthead has declared: Democracy Dies in Darkness. Indeed it does. And this is the second time in less than three months that one of ...

Dr Sirimewan Dharmaratne, former Senior Analyst, HMRC, UK. Although this may not be doable at all times, it is possible to retrospectively assess the economic impact of crucial decisions. While ...

And we will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars Now, democracy has ensconced Donald Trump, a maverick ...

It was one of the faster collapses of a robust democracy on record. Mr. Trump promises to do much the same, including through his embrace of Project 2025 ideas and their proponents, many of whom ...

Ours is a government of laws, but also of persons. Laws alone cannot save us from stupidity or tyranny. The law can only save ...

During his first inauguration in January, 2017, Mr. Trump decidedly broke from that tradition. Telling the audience that he would stop the “American carnage” of the previous four years, Mr. Trump ...

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