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Elon Musk advocates for government efficiency and restoring democracy in the federal bureaucracy.

Bosses of tech giants Meta, Google and X had front row seats at Donald Trump’s recent presidential inauguration. This special treatment highlighted the increasingly cosy relationship between leaders of technology companies and the White House.

Multiple former Treasury secretaries published a letter warning the nation about the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by billionaire Elon Musk, stating that access to the nation's payment system could put highly confidential data at risk.

Letters: Readers respond to Labour’s decision to postpone some council elections as it plans to reorganise local government

In an unprecedented decision on December 6 2024, the Romanian constitutional court annulled the November 25 presidential elections after it received credible intelligence of large-scale external interference rigging the results of the first round in favour of a hardly-known far-right candidate, Calin Georgescu.

Serbian students protest government corruption and demand justice after a tragic canopy collapse, sparking a nationwide movement for democracy.

King Charles and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to the founding father of democratic Namibia

Billionaire Elon Musk is presiding over a purge of US government jobs that critics call an ‘evisceration of democracy’.

The US president has recognised something that is rarely acknowledged: monetary policy is political, says academic and author Leah Downey