A prominent former bank building in South Molton could be converted into flats and a retail unit. Constructed in 1832, the ...

This remarkable Corinthian-style helmet from the Battle of Marathon was reputedly discovered in 1834 with a human skull still inside.

As Haiti grapples with surging violence and displacement, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners are stepping up ...

The European Union agreed Tuesday to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet, ...

As I experience the daily destruction of our democracy by President Donald Trump and his henchmen and women, I am reminded of the warning offered by Mahatma Gandhi years ago. Gandhi said the ...

That is a dictatorship, not a constitutional democracy. Photo from the White House, Facebook The Trump administration wants to obliterate one of the most basic constitutional guarantees ...

These memories have led to ambivalence about democracy. Declaring a quarter of the country so extreme that the other three-quarters cannot be trusted to defeat it reflects this insecurity.

The IEC may be elitist but it is democratic: a delegated democracy. It will never be adopted. It’s much too sensible. But one can dream.

Andrew Coyne is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is the author of a new book The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, from which this essay has been adapted. Whatever their opinion of the result ...

However, the Yale example has a certain similarity to the way governmental elites restrict the choice of voters in European nations, even while deeming themselves guardians of “democracy.” ...