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Letters: Labour’s warning to its MPs against tabling amendments to government bills will harm democracy, thinks Victor Anderson. William Wallace fears party whips want to stifle reasoned debate

As the 2024 election nears, Americans express deep divisions on key issues, with inflation and the state of democracy significantly influencing preferences.

PM dismisses criticism that a plan to temporarily stop accepting asylum applications violates human rights

China’s President Xi Jinping has made a rare visit to a province facing Taiwan, following military exercises mobilizing China’s navy, air force, missile force and land troops to simulate a blockade of the self-governing island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force

Senator Bernie Sanders voices concern over Trump's threats to democracy and emphasizes the importance of upholding democratic values in the US.

As Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo (Jokowi) prepares to leave office, Indonesia is still routinely lauded as one of Asia’s most important democracies. Jokowi was first elected, in 2014, on the promise of breaking with the old Jakarta elite and making government more responsive to ordinary people.

“Bothsidesism” is a term of disparagement against a form of journalism that presents “both sides” of an issue without any regard for their relative evidentiary merits.

US only democracy in the world where a presidential candidate can get the most popular votes and still lose

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to three US-based economists who examined the advantages of democracy and the rule of law, and why they are strong in some countries and not others.

More than a year after the eruption of conflict between Hamas and Israel, the escalating war in the Middle East is roiling Australian society and politics.