Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painting of leaders presenting the Declaration of Independence; African Slave Trade Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images "The ...

Social democracy is an ideology that operates within the dynamics of capitalism and aims for an egalitarian, libertarian, and solidarity-based social structure. Rising particularly in the second half ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...