In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, its disintegration was described by various political scientists as the triumph of liberal democracy. In 1992, the American scholar Francis Fukuyama declared ...

Following the advice of his infamous mentor Roy Cohn, instead of being chastened and cowed by the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, Donald Trump has instead chosen to go on the ...

A recent New Yorker piece about the shadowland between democracy and autocracy taught me a new word — “anocracy” — and added to my worries about Donald Trump and his semi-criminal gang who tried to ...

“Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you?”, the late Tony Hancock famously asked, “Did she die in vain?” It’s a few centuries (over eight to be precise) since King John put his mark on that famous ...

Across America, whispers softly speak about whether there’s an undeclared civil war. Well, maybe yes, maybe no, but what are the signals? What about January 6 th hand-to-hand combat on the steps of ...

In its latest Democracy Index rating, the Economist Intelligence Unit describes the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as authoritarian. In another breath, the Washington Post, in a recent ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor - known for his extremely vast vocabulary - on Sunday put out a tweet laced with sarcasm to target the BJP government at the centre by introducing a new word - "anocracy".

Following the advice of his infamous mentor Roy Cohn, instead of being chastened and cowed by the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison, Donald Trump has instead chosen to go on the ...