BANGKOK (AP) — Tin Oo, one of the closest associates of Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi as well as a co-founder of her National League for Democracy party, has died. He was 97. Tin Oo died Saturday morning at Yangon General Hospital, said Moh Khan, a charity worker citing a member of his […]
In the wake of Donald Trump’s first federal criminal indictment last summer, there was quite a bit of commentary about “tests.” Americans are seeing a test of our political system. A test of our judicial system. A test for the rule of law. A test of the courts. A test of the integrity of our […]
The verdict is in. Former President Trump was found guilty Thursday of all 34 felony counts against him in the New York hush money case in connection with falsifying records around a payment made to silence porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Now the real test begins. Will Americans who disagree with […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans are voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory. At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white […]
President Biden and Donald Trump issued drastically different Memorial Day messages on Monday, with Biden extolling the virtues of democracy and Trump blasting his perceived foes as “human scum,” deriding the judges in his trials. “Freedom has never been guaranteed,” Biden said after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in a […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country will take its most significant political step since the moment 30 years ago when it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy. This national election will not be as momentous as the one South Africa held in 1994 — few […]
It was another chaotic week for the GOP: its presumptive presidential nominee shared a video referencing a “unified Reich,” its members began peddling another absurd and debunked conspiracy theory, and a second provocative flag was spotted at a second residence owned by conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. “Fascism isn’t a day job,” says historian […]
WEST POINT, New York — President Joe Biden delivered the commencement address at the United States Military Academy on Saturday, leaning into themes about the importance of protecting democracy. Speaking on a sunny spring morning in an outdoor stadium filled with cadets and their families and friends, Biden called the graduating class “guardians of American […]
Joe Biden has called newly graduating US military officers the “guardians of American democracy” at a commencement speech at the elite West Point military academy in New York state, where the US president, without mentioning Donald Trump by name, gave strong warnings of unprecedented threats to US freedom. Biden, speaking in front of about 1,000 […]
Tens of thousands of Taiwanese protesters rallied day and night outside parliament on Friday, as lawmakers inside traded insults, blows and theatrics over a series of bills to expand the legislature’s power. The issue has dominated conversations on the self-ruled island for the past week, eclipsing news of Beijing launching military drills around Taiwan to […]
Bad news for supporters of democracy across the Americas: Claudia Sheinbaum, the government-backed front-runner in Mexico’s June 2 presidential elections, has suggested that, if she wins, she will maintain Mexico’s current support for Cuba, Venezuela and other dictatorships. In the third and final presidential debate on May 19 Sheinbaum said that “we are going to […]
To mark the 75th anniversary of Germany’s de facto constitution, the Basic Law, the government in Berlin is inviting citizens to a major Democracy Festival to be located around the buildings housing the Chancellery and the Bundestag. From Friday to Sunday, there are events planned in the form of dialogue, information stands, games, concerts, plays, […]