Warning of a “major threat to democracy,” Republican Reps. Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Jim Banks (R-IN) are demanding “transparency” regarding the effects of the Department of Defense’s “wokeness” — which they blame for undermining the military’s apolitical character and harming recruitment, which is at a “historic” low.
Cancel culture is both “good for democracy” and a “way for a new generation of people to practice free speech,” according to a recent Rolling Stone piece celebrating the ostracization of those “guilty” of holding controversial positions, while assuring the practice is “here to stay.”
The British people are more united on immigration being “too high” than on any other issue, polls suggest – but their political class are continuing to give them more and more of it.
President Joe Biden alleged in his annual State of the Union speech on Tuesday that “democracies have become stronger” — and authoritarian states “weaker, not stronger” — in the two years since he took office.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack in a way that
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler Texas has blasted the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) as an unelected power with a “Godless” agenda.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday jumped into President Joe Biden’s classified document scandal by pointing to the difference in how Biden and former President Donald Trump were treated as proof that “justice, fairness, and the rule of law are worthless in U.S. politics.”
A campaign to restore Conservative (Tory) Party democracy including a top donor and former Cabinet minister has been launched following the coup that installed tax-hiking Rishi Sunak as premier without consulting members.
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) issued a report on Wednesday that found democracy in retreat around the world, with twice as many nations moving toward authoritarianism as those which sought to become more democratic.
To the left, “democracy” means that the left, and only the left, is allowed to win. Anything else is an attack on democracy.
2021 elections in the German capital of Berlin have been ruled invalid by the city’s constitutional court on Wednesday, with the city now legally required to re-run the poll within the next 90 days.
Chinese state media portrayed Monday’s meeting between dictator Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, as an unreserved triumph for Xi.
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama administration official Van Jones stated that Democrats failed to see how much inflation mattered for working-class voters and pointed out that people do have to deal with inflation
Republican officials slammed President Joe Biden after he warned that “democracy itself” is at stake if the GOP takes power in the midterm elections, as he argued the “very soul of America itself” was in danger, and accused “extreme MAGA Republicans” of attempting to “suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.”
While Joe Biden specifically mentioned the attack on Paul Pelosi, the January 6 riots on Capitol Hill, and harassment of public voting officials, he did not outline examples of political violence from leftists.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to reporting from The Intercept on federal agencies working with tech platforms to suppress online speech by stating that, for all the Biden administration’s talk about
President Joe Biden uttered the word “democracy” 37 times in a 20-minute speech on Wednesday that seemed to be his final pitch to American voters to vote for Democrats in next week’s midterm elections.
The president again tried to connect the Pelosi attack to January 6th, when Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill to protest the 2020 presidential election.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senior Biden Adviser for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms stated that she “can’t speak to” whether it was wrong for Democrats to support candidates in Republican primaries that the White House says are
Republican use of “radicalism and racism” is not “merely responding to its base, but [the GOP] has actually created it,” states a recent piece in the Nation that laments the need to “care about miserable white people” simply due to their “disproportionate political power.”
By forcing Boris Johnson out of the race for Tory leader and imposing Rishi Sunak, explicitly rejected by the party grassroots mere weeks ago, the parliamentary elite showcased their utter contempt for regular conservatives more starkly than ever.
Grassroots members and supporters of the Conservative Party have been put back in their place by the party’s parliamentary elite, with Liz Truss ousted and an establishment premier likely to replace her.
A senior Chinese diplomat took part in an attack on Hong Kong protesters int he UK, a member of parliament has claimed under privilege.
Footage of a pro-Hong Kong protester being dragged into a Chinese consulate by masked men and beaten up has emerged online
A group of Ukrainian legislators announced a visit to Taiwan between October 25 and 27 to attend the 11th annual meeting of the World Movement for Democracy (WMD).
Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan, who votes with his own party’s leadership 100 percent of the time, said during a debate on Monday night that politicians “who don’t have to guts to stand up to their own party” are a “huge threat to democracy.”
Threats made by the EU against the funding of the incoming Italian government show that the bloc is ready to “undermine” democracy in the country, an MEP has argued.
Former President Bill Clinton did his part to propagate Democrat messaging for the midterm elections at an event Saturday with Tom Hanks, telling the audience that democracy is fragile and must be saved.
British Prime Minister Liz Truss told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that free nations should band together and “act as an economic NATO” to defend prosperity against the malevolent influence of authoritarian regimes like Russia and China.
An MEP has slammed leftists in the European Union after the bloc’s parliament passed a report declaring that Hungary was “no longer a democracy”.
In what is the latest instance of EU bigwigs attacking the conservative-led state, the European Parliament has now declared that Hungary is “no longer a democracy”.
Pope Francis began his trip to Kazakhstan Tuesday touting the virtues of democracy, calling it “the most suitable form for power to be translated into service.”
President Joe Biden spoke at a memorial for the lives lost on 9/11 on Sunday, urging Americans to look toward the future and act to defend Democracy.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Cross Connection,” host Tiffany Cross said that Republicans “are the biggest threat to democracy.” And that “We don’t separate right-wing extremists and the Republican Party anymore.” During a panel discussion of President Joe Biden’s speech,
President Joe Biden (D) said the word “democracy” 31 times during a speech delivered Thursday evening in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday heaped blame on the United States for an ugly battle in Baghdad, Iraq, between Shiite Muslim nationalists and Shiites loyal to Iran.
The “broken” and “famously undemocratic” U.S. Constitution “stands in the way” of “real” freedom and democracy, according to a New York Times op-ed by two Ivy League law professors. The pair issued a call to “radically alter the basic rules of the game” by no longer requiring us to “justify our politics by the Constitution.”
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said Republicans are opposing the reconciliation package because “they are so invested in proving that democracy can’t work, especially under President Biden, that they’re rejecting proposal after proposal that’s
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) claimed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ruled that “there are no precedents that you can rely on,” and that the Supreme Court overturning Roe
More voters trust the GOP to protect democracy than they do Democrats.
