With municipal elections on the horizon this year in several Canadian provinces and territories, local councils have the ...

The debate over the Māori seats has returned to centre stage. New Zealand First is proposing a binding referendum at the next ...

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell. When Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, was assassinated in the opening stages of the US-Israeli war against Iran, I didn’t mou ...

The US-Israel war on Iran has effectively shut one of the world’s most important oil choke points, the Strait of Hormuz, sending the price of Brent crude over US $100 a barrel for the first time since ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

The Media Council has ruled that two complaints again RNZ articles did not have the grounds to proceed. The first was an article based on a Mediawatch segment about how the news media had handled a ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi got her start in politics as an intern for a trailblazing Colorado lawmaker. She returns to ...

Starmer urged to tackle human rights abuses with Nigerian president on state visit - Fabian Hamilton, who chairs the ...

Many of you are justifiably worried that Trump will interfere in the midterm elections. He’s worried he’ll lose Congress: His polls continue to plummet. The economy is worse than ever. Prices are ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.