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With Trump back in the White House, democracy is in danger across the west. Electoral reform is the best way to protect it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The last time this many red Maga hats descended on Washington DC, American democracy faced a mortal threat. Four years later, and many believe the same may be true again, writes Richard Hall

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the first democracy in the world in Athens, but the word itself comes from the Greek demos (people) and kratos…

Even before Trump, we were on the way to losing our democracy — but we did not pay attention. Now, we have no choice but to attend to it

Nam Arum’s debut documentary weaves intimate home videos and family stories into an interrogation of the aftermath of Chun Doo-hwan’s dictatorship

Letters: Under the fifth Industrial Revolution, human labour may no longer be able to bargain for a share of wealth and political power, writes Simon Steyne

Money, Lies, and God exposes a Christian nationalist movement funded by the super-rich seeking to secure their wealth at the expense of others

The president was supposed to defeat Donald Trump and end the threat he posed to our democracy. Yet, here we are

K. Sello Duiker was regarded as a “rock star” of South African literature. He was one of a group of budding black South African novelists of the late 1990s and early 2000s who emerged with democracy in 1994. They stirred up the country’s literary scene with their irreverent take on…