Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

Practically every major news organization refused, including MS NOW (my employer) and Fox News (Hegseth’s former employer).

Masha Gessen UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Masha Gessen, Politics of the Past, Politics of the Future, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14 at UCSB ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

There’s snow in the mountains, kids are playing in the streets and gardens are coming to life across Alaska. But beneath that surface of normalcy, something profound and troubling is happening in our ...

EIU's 2025 Democracy Index shows that after eight years of decline, 2025 marks a stabilisation of democracy scores that suggests an end to the democracy recession is underway. Almost 75% of countries ...

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar faces off against pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a pivotal election, framed as a referendum on Hungary's place between Eastern autocracies and ...

Only about a third of Americans are happy with the way democracy is working, according to a Gallup poll earlier this year. The first man, who wished to remain anonymous because of his job, is a local ...

Democracies under pressure: more and more countries are sliding into authoritarian systems of government and democratic systems are on the defensive, according to the latest Bertelsmann Stiftung ...