Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

According to a new global democracy report, the U.S. has seen a sharp and unusually rapid decline in democratic safeguards.

The University of Gothenburg's latest report shows that the United States is no longer a liberal democracy, having ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

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 ...

The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...

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 ...

The major public opinion survey institutions in the US (Pew Research, Gallup, and others) and the UK (YouGov UK, Ipsos UK, and others) are telling the same story. The citizens of both countries are ...

For the past ten years I have paid close attention to everything Donald Trump has said and done. This is my job—but it is also who I have become. At the school gates, in the office, online: friends ...

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 ...

In her latest book “The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies,” political scientist Susan C. Stokes traces the recent erosion of democracies around the world, including the United ...