Democracy on Autopilot – Hunt County’s troubling voter apathy

This past Saturday, democracy in Hunt County flickered dimly. Out of approximately 72,400 registered voters – and an estimated total population of 125,000 – only about 3,800 people cast ballots. That’s a participation rate of just 5.3% of registered voters …

Prolonged Pause in grassroots Democracy

29 The National People’s Power (NPP) coalition led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has secured a decisive victory in yesterday’s long-delayed Local Government elections, capturing the majority of local bodies across Sri Lanka in what political …

A Convenient Democracy

A Convenient Democracy Is not a democracy  It’s an incongruity Like a faithless marriage It needs work and nurturing and watching Otherwise While one is surfing streaming downloading Working partying shopping Living Pretending all this is not happening We …

Crazy Town 103: It Was Never Your Democracy Anyway: Thomas Linzey on Rethinking the Constitution

Melody Allison Hi. This is producer Melody Allison. Thanks for joining us in Crazy Town where Jason, Rob, and Asher tackle crazy making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we're all deluding ourselves. Here's a quick …

Democracy in Africa: Youth power, political shifts and the anti corruption fight

The Transatlantic Bridge: Jakub Klepal on civil society’s role in sustaining democracy

Print Certainly since World War II, and arguably since World War I, the U.S.-Europe relationship has been the world’s most important alliance and an anchor of global democracy, stability, and prosperity. That alliance is now under internal stress in ways …

High Court rules Alliance for Democracy October 20th convention illegal but so was Tracy’s expulsion from UDP; what now?

Views: 85Posted: Wednesday, May 7, 2025. 2:24 pm CST. By Breaking Belize News Staff: In a ruling handed down by the High Court today from Justice Tawanda Hondora, as it relates to the status of the United Democratic Party, the October 20th convention was …

‘Democracy’ queried in councillors’ spat

Invercargill's council chambers played host to a testy exchange on Tuesday, including an accusation that democracy had gone by the wayside. The exchange involved long-standing councillors Ian Pottinger and Darren Ludlow, who was chairing the committee …

A United Europe Is Necessary to Preserve Democracy: MEP Nikola Minchev

A united Europe is the necessary instrument to preserve civil liberties and rights, in general to preserve democracy. This is what Bulgarian MEP from the Renew Europe group Nikola Minchev told BTA ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second …

A hard but healthy democracy on show

EDITORIAL The results of the May 3 Federal Election are now clear, and here on the Central Coast, all three key electorates; Dobell, Robertson and Shortland, have returned their sitting Labor MPs with increased majorities. Congratulations are in order for …