EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock is quite “excited" to join Instagram, and is looking forward to her time on the ...

A journal called Liberal Currents recently invited me to contribute to a scholarly symposium on what the editor, Adam Gurri, described as “how we can move to a new, stable democratic regime after ...

The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” A poster featuring President Donald Trump in a SS ...

The Freedom House report was, overall, appropriately depressing. It found: “Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...

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When the first Trump administration authored its national security strategy in 2017, democracy figured prominently. It labeled democracy something that “we hold dear.” It said the democratization of ...

In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...