By Mel Gurtov\PeaceVoice Photos: Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots India is hailed as the world’s biggest democracy, and Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East. Yet both are led by authoritarian rulers who are far more interested in crushing opponents than in promoting democracy.  This reality should be sobering for US presidents who, whether Democrats…

By Marc Bayard\ Dev Wakeley Photos: UAW\YouTube Screenshots The United Auto Workers recently scored the largest union victory in decades in the South. Their success at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant could be a turning point for labor in a region long known for governmental hostility to unions. The next test will be a UAW election scheduled…

By Martins Agbonlahor Photos: Facebook\Wikimedia Commons\YouTube Screenshots The build up to the Senegalese presidential election of March 24 and its monumental outcome can aptly be comparable to a scene taken straight from a fictional novel, as it was manifestly beyond the ordinary. Bassirou Faye, the opposition candidate and eventual winner of that election, had been…