Netflix's newest political documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, is a gripping, unsettling look at how democracy in Brazil ...

April 3, 2015; Theocracy Versus Democracy Theocracy Versus Democracy How the reckless Hobby Lobby decision has excited the imagination of the right wing.

If we are not honest in our assessment and forthright in our words, then we disguise reality with flaccid speech and diplomatic niceties. Our upbringing, that teaches polite accommodation to those ...

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EXCLUSIVE: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa’s urgent new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, set to open in select ...

Americans who want to live in a democracy should understand the stakes. Cynthia Tucker won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2007. She can be reached at [email protected] .

BOSTON — Earlier this summer a young Iraqi went to one of the Islamic courts springing up in the holy city of Najaf to confess to the judge that he’d killed his mother. She’d dishonored the ...

I hear very often many politicians saying that some of our friendly nations are democratic. Let us not confuse democracy with theocracy. This is one of the many fallacies that trouble me. Why ...

About a week ago, Robert Reich published an insightful essay in The Guardian U.S. edition titled “The second American civil war is already happening” (May 11). At one point, he ...