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

Donald Trump and the Republican Party are dismantling American democracy at a record-breaking pace, according to the latest ...

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

In just about a year, Donald Trump has reduced American measures of democracy and free speech to around the level of the 1950s-1960s.

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 ...

Americans are understandably proud of our nation as a free society and successful experiment in democracy. We have stumbled before, yet endured — guided by constitutional guardrails and leaders who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Campante is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Levitsky is a professor of government at Harvard. On Thursday, the Brazilian Supreme Court did what the U.S. Senate and federal courts ...