A groundbreaking international study of 161,981 participants across 40 countries published in Nature Medicine reveals that air pollution, social inequality, and weak democratic institutions ...

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In the mid-20th century, democracies around the world were descending into authoritarianism—descents sparked by military coups. Today, military coups have become much less common, yet the threats to ...

Most countries are getting more and more unequal. But the core of democracy is political equality: that everyone should have an equal say in how their country is run. Can we really expect these things ...

Economic inequality leads to democratic erosion, a new study finds. Political commentators, academics, and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. Published in ...

Do a capitalist economy and a democratic society go hand-in-hand? What does the future of China hold? Branko Milanovic explored these questions, and many others, in a recent episode of Political ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Economists usually gauge a country's economic health by looking at its gross domestic product as measured through total spending ...

The Hill is a nonpartisan publication reporting on the inner workings of government and the nexus of politics and business. “We can either have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth ...

Darren Walker has spent much of his life fighting inequality. From humble beginnings in rural Texas, he went on to lead one of the nation’s most powerful philanthropic institutions. Walker is now ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for urgent global action to tackle inequality, warning that it poses a direct threat to democracy and social justice worldwide. Speaking at the “In Defence of ...

JOHANNESBURG: Wealth inequality is a global emergency that threatens democracy and social cohesion, experts warned Tuesday, urging G20 leaders meeting in South Africa this month to establish a panel ...

This paper investigates the relationship between democracy and antitrust policy. Strong antitrust policies advance the economic and political interests of most citizens, making their adoption more ...