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 ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Americans are understandably proud of our nation as a free society and successful experiment in democracy. We have stumbled ...

Halfway through 2025, I can't help but recall the bevy of lies that progressives and the mainstream media told me about Donald Trump before and after he won a second term as president. I was told ...

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 ...

Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of ...

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 ...

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 ...