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LAURA GAMBOA is Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of ...

There’s much talk these days about democracy being under threat at home and around the world. Most of this discussion tends to be focused on efforts by autocrats and their supporters to erode the ...

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In a country where justice is often elusive, Mario Joseph was a fearless crusader who didn’t care whether his opponent was ...

Most strikingly, the sentence is immediately enforceable , leaving no room for suspensive appeal. The case stems from a ...

Susan Crawford, who led legal fights to protect union power and abortion rights and to oppose voter ID, defeated ...

Activists-in-exile bring with them not only their personal stories and attitudes of resilience, but also their expertise in ...

This was my first experience with the entrenched gender inequality that defines life for women in Myanmar. But this bias ...

So much for “democracy.” They’d also paint it as ... (Another top-court justice, Janet Protasiewicz, refuses to recuse herself, even though she’s marched against the law.) ...