Activists rally for voting rights and DC statehood as they block traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue SE on December 7, 2021 in Washington, DC. The fight for democracy has been one of the most defining ...

Sometime in late 2017 or early 2018, Saif Ali Khan, a 22-year-old fruit vendor who made his living in the markets of Bikaner, in northwest India, met a young woman who lived in a nearby neighborhood.

When the Articles of Confederation needed to be replaced with a constitution, our Enlightenment founders looked at the history of democracies and why they failed. When the majority usurped the rights ...

Troiano analyzed data from the Polity IV Project, which measures the degree of democracy or autocracy in countries over time, assigning each country a numerical score ranging from -10 (full autocracy) ...

The fall of Orbán and the rise of Magyar in Hungary reveal how controlled electoral systems can collapse when public anger, ...

With presidential colloquia by influential thought leaders, as well as lectures on the fight for racial justice and art exhibitions on America’s political landscape, the college’s Year on Democracies ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to a significant decline in democratic values across the globe as many countries have taken aggressive and authoritarian steps to attempt to curb the virus. If ...

The TechCrunch Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. Governments that purchase spyware tend to share a common pretext: ...

How democracies need to enhance cybersecurity protections against authoritarian adversaries with fewer legal barriers is concerning to a leading cybersecurity expert. Paulo Costa, George Mason ...

As winter neared, many observers were concerned about the resilience of European democracies during Russia’s war against Ukraine. The triple pressures of economic downturn and inflation, energy crisis ...

BERLIN (AP) — Established democracies' efforts against public-sector corruption appear to be flagging, according to a survey released Tuesday that serves as a barometer of perceived corruption ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Activists Block Traffic Around Capitol Hill To Demand Action From Congress But perhaps nowhere has the fight been more pronounced ...