The Stefanovic saga represents a high-profile example of the transfer of journalism’s hard-earned credibility into a rapidly growing alternative media sphere.
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Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
In the shift from absolutism towards representative government, the monarch symbolised impartiality and balance
Local needs, political tensions and corporate power all get involved in the democratic processes by which Americans govern their communities.
Despite its comedic origins and mission as the ‘voice of the lazy and unemployed’, the movement represents a seismic shift in India’s political landscape.
You know how important the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were to making the United States. But do you know about The Federalist and the crucial role it played in the founding era?
Democracies can either defend rights in the digital age, or drift into complicity as the architects of a new, global authoritarianism enabled by AI.
125 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that some territories belonged to the US but weren’t part of it. The reasoning was openly racist – and it still shapes how millions are represented in Congress.
The mega-wealthy buying into Australia’s increasingly concentrated media industry is nothing new – and it is a critical issue for democracy.
Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.
In parliamentary democracies, prime ministers remain in office for as long as they retain the confidence of parliament.
The resignation of Paul Brereton reflects flaws in how we set up our integrity agencies. Here are 3 ways to ensure these bodies are truly independent.
Loyalty outranks expertise, and reality bends to the leader’s word. From Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, fascist war machines collapse on the same contradictions.
The federal task force that defends US elections has been largely absent this election cycle, and the threat-sharing hub it relied on has been defunded.
Voter turnout in New Zealand elections has been sliding for decades. Research suggests compulsory voting could reverse the trend – so what are the objections?
Military regimes have shifted from presenting themselves as temporary ‘corrective’ interventions to becoming personalised systems of rule.
Bilateral meeting between both presidents sent a clear signal to Lula’s domestic audience: the relationship with Washington is not broken, and it does not require a Bolsonaro to fix it.
The EU’s Media Pluralism Monitor research project assesses the health of national media ecosystems but what about the bigger picture beyond compliance and the risks to Europe’s information space as a whole?
Hope is in short supply ahead of the Welsh election.
Is the US a democracy or a republic? That’s a misleading question, writes a historian of early America. The values of republicanism and the values of democracy have both been vital to the nation.
