One year into the president’s second term, the country’s institutions and civil society are still checking his authoritarian ...

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have accelerated a process of democratic erosion in the United States. In just two months, the president and his allies have issued executive ...

At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and ...

A new yearly report on the condition of global democracy is sounding an alarm, and the United States, the oldest worldwide symbol of freedom, might not remain a democracy by next year's edition, ...

That familiar phrase has been the cry of many a young child on a car trip that seemed never-ending. Now that phrase is being asked and answered by many adults when it comes to what was once democracy ...

One of the grandest achievements of America’s Founding Fathers was the establishment of a political regime dedicated to the securing the rights granted to all human beings by both nature and God, ...

Six months before she died, in October 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published a memorable essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Coming Democratic Revival.” Amid rising pessimism ...

A new book argues for making the U.S. a “true” democracy, but fails at the essential strategy of persuasion. Nwanevu wields journalism as a cutting tool that’s well oiled with contempt (I’ve been on ...

As we mark the fifth anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump is again showing us he has no patience for democracy if it impedes his pursuit of power ...