At 3 a.m. one day last December, a 78-year-old volunteer for the British Conservative Party was reportedly woken by a call ...

As the 19th century politician Lord Acton famously intoned, "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The maxim is proven by history, which is filled with populist leaders, ...

Jerome Kaye grew up on the Lower East Side of New York in the 1920s and ‘30s and became radicalized by the economic injustice all around him. He was a member of the Communist Party in his younger ...

Kendrick versus Drake was a race to design the most insulting sentence — until the rappers and their admirers redefined what ...

Universities are obliged to allow free speech. They are also obliged to make sure that students can attend classes free of ...

So he contacted several college newspapers, seeking to place a full-page ad, during Black History Month, titled, “Ten Reasons ...

For ordinary citizens, democracy works quite well. Some examples work better than others. None have approached perfection.

“The economic state is what creates the fertile field for these demagogues,” Stiglitz said. “If they were feeling their ...

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens. KPFA is offering The Trial of Socrates by I.F.

With the local elections out of the way, Labour can get back to the serious business of making public statements about the ...

Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Coalition, an unrecognized pro-Palestine student group, accused The Harvard Crimson of anti ...