Democracy is in the doldrums these days. The Brits are going through prime ministers at a record pace and the Americans are seeing their democratic…

How satisfying to see a battler for democracy win the Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s winner, Venezuelan Maria Corina Machado, joins the ranks of other…

Reading about the Liberals’ One Canadian Economy Act, or Bill C-5, and the rush to get it through Parliament, I was reminded of the infamous…

There is, if one is inclined to pessimism, ample opportunity to indulge these days. The political world alone offer a variety of depressing trends. Around…

Did the American people just vote, in a free and fair election, to terminate their experiment in Republican government? They’ve had a good run—248 years—but…

Quite a list of American publications, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Las Vegas Sun and The New Yorker, have endorsed Kamala…

Last Monday, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced that the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, had comfortably won the national election and another six years in office.…

Why, one wonders, would so many Americans be prepared to elect a president with such contempt for democracy, one of the country’s cardinal values. A…

Having just posted bad news about democracy, specifically the loss of Hong Kong to Xi Jinping’s autocracy, I read some good news. In India’s recent…

At a time when democracy seems to be losing ground around the globe, even in the United States, one of the saddest losses is Hong…

Democracy, it seems, is going through a rough patch. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world showed a “continuing democratic malaise” in 2023.…

Canada is a very free country, but unfortunately not a very democratic one. Not when our electoral system consistently gives us governments that most of…