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Most Americans say democracy is important to the United States’s identity, but that the nation’s democratic system is not functioning well, according to a new poll. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found 76 percent of Americans said “a democratically elected government” is extremely or very important to the country’s identity. Only…

India’s general election sets Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a dedicated Hindu nationalist, against a broad coalition of opposition parties that are trying hard to keep up.

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said that President Trump’s recent meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán shows that he “wants to be a dictator.” “I think you’re looking at a second Donald Trump term… in terms of, he wants to be strong, that he can be tough with his own people, not…