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Ashoka Emerging Markets Trust: MoneyWeeks investment columnist, Max King, says tough times breed reliable investment trusts that you can trust.

The United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 had the potential to transform the Middle East by introducing democracy to a region where it was sorely lacking. Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist

The U.S. is sharply divided, but the depths of our political conflict shouldn’t be overstated.

After a career studying civil wars small and large, organized violence in the United States strikes me as extraordinarily unlikely.

Over the last 10 years, we’ve moved ominously from the democracy toward which we have been evolving since 1776, and instead have increasingly become an oligarchy where power has been concentrated in the hands of fewer unfathomably wealthy people....

Over the last 10 years we’ve moved ominously from the democracy toward which we have been evolving since 1776 and instead are increasingly becoming an oligarchy where power has been concentrated in the hands of fewer unfathomably wealthy people....

Allen J. Davis of Dublin is an educator, racial justice activist, and lifelong defender of democracy. Tom Weiner of Northampton, Mass., retired after teaching 3rd-6th grade for 40 years. He is also a racial justice activist and an author. Over the...

America, long held as the standard for Democracy, has slipped according to international surveys because it has fallen into "anocracy."

Over the last 10 years we’ve moved ominously from the democracy towards which we have been evolving since 1776 and instead are increasingly becoming an oligarchy where power has been concentrated in the hands of fewer unfathomably wealthy people....

In her new book, "How Civil Wars Start," Barbara F. Walter writes that the US exhibits the key warning signs that precede armed conflict.