Regardless of the elections’ outcome, Freedom House will continue to highlight urgent challenges to American democracy and their underlying causes. With the United States facing closely contested ...

The oligarchy predicament is so old that Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, offered significant insights into the nature of oligarchies in his classic work, "Politics." He categorized various ...

While most were laudatory and covered a variety of topics, one was particularly pointed: A man wanted to know what Musk would say to concerns from voters that Trump’s election could lead to democracy ...

Every election is a direct reminder of the power — and complexity — of democracy. This year’s is also an outlet for anxieties, across the political spectrum, about how democracy itself is faring.

Or sign-in if you have an account. The slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” is the sort of self-important verbiage expected of a 20 year-old man in university whispering to a woman cornered ...

Should he lose, he may very well face jail time. It has left voters facing a bleak choice over the country’s democracy — one that has never before been litigated in an American presidential ...

Emilie Hafner-Burton and Christina Schneider, co-directors of the Future of Democracy Initiative at the University of California’s Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), which focuses ...

This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting.

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

He faced accusations of human rights abuses in Papua and East Timor, and in 1998, special forces troops under his command had abducted democracy activists in Jakarta, 13 of whom have never been ...

For all of the concerns about this “affective polarization” as a threat to democracy, there is another concerning data point where there is complete bipartisan agreement: People feel that the ...