German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office a year ago vowing to revive the political centre, but the far-right AfD party has risen to the top of the polls while his own coalition's popularity is falling.
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.
The Selma Cross-Cultural Nonviolence Performing Arts Academy nonprofit will commemorate the first Mr. Worth Long Freedom Nonviolent Holiday on…
Students from Selma and Dallas County middle schools recognized the 62nd anniversary of the Nonviolent Student March for equality in a ceremon…
Beijing has intensified its hold on civil society since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012
Ten years ago, human rights lawyer Li Fangping was enjoying a peaceful evening in his hometown in central China with his young son when he hea…
The shock: Russian pensioner Evgeniya Mayboroda in the dock as the verdict fell
A residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine destroyed by a Russian strike in 2023
Forty-one people went on hunger strike in Shakhty in 2004 reclaiming unpaid wages from coal giant Rostov Ugol (Rostov Coal), which ran mines i…
A woman holds a smartphone bearing an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a rally of his supporters in 2016