Business grants for women can help you grow your business for free, as opposed to small-business loans or other types of debt-based funding that you must pay back. But competition for small ...

Democracy. Free and fair elections. Trump has succeeded enough to know that his toxic model of politics works on a sizable chunk of the American electorate. In his second term, expect Trump to ...

The Best Jeans for Older Women We Tested, Including Denim from Spanx, Levi's, Gap, and More Flare jeans made a big comeback this year, so we’re definitely snagging a pair to add to our wardrobes ...

The new year brings a mixed picture for women’s political representation – the highest glass ceiling in American politics remains intact, but female governors and state legislators are setting ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Jimmy Carter meets with Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe in the Oval Office in Washington, on ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders have announced the closure of all national and international NGOs that currently employ women. The latest crackdown comes two years after Taliban officials issued a ...

Netflix's much-anticipated contemporary Western series Ransom Canyon is expected to premiere in 2025. The multigenerational family drama is based on Jodi Thomas's book series of the same name.

My first election observation mission could have been former President Jimmy Carter's last. We were in Guyana. It was 1992, about a year after I'd been hired to work in the Carter Center's Latin ...

Are there limits to our understanding of the representative spirit of Indian democracy? Representative democracy is a system wherein citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.

There followed a brief hope that the insurrection would shock the nation into addressing the toxic polarization that threatens our democracy. However, one year on, promoters of the lie that the ...

The drama out of DC (and Mar-a-Lago) dominates the headlines. But pay attention to state legislatures in 2025. Their decisions will either defend democratic values — or not. Mary Ellen Klas is a ...