South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will deploy the army to high crime areas to help police in this country that ...

A prominent Hong Kong activist in exile in the U.S. says a court ruling back in Hong Kong to imprison her father for eight months has only made her more determined to fight for the territory and its ...

The gatherings are documented in the Oscar-nominated short film Children No More: ‘Were and Are Gone ,’ directed by Hilla Medalia, and produced by Medalia, Yael Melamede, and Sheila Nevins – the ...

Trump told Patel directly that he wasn't pleased about his viral locker-room partying with the U.S. men's hockey team, as well as his use of a government jet to travel to Italy.

On Thursday, February 19, students from across Harvard gathered at the Berkman Klein Center (BKC) to explore two timely ...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks out against the arrest of a guest during the State of the Union, highlighting concerns for democracy.

A Hong Kong court has dismissed all appeals arising from the city’s biggest case brought under a Beijing-imposed national security law. Eleven activists who appealed their convictions lost ...

In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...