Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

A Washington Post review found at least 16 D.C. police officers who faced the violent mob are omitted from a personnel list displayed at the U.S. Capitol. Two police officers argue in a court filing ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

Something has gone wrong in American politics. The Republican Party I once knew was the party of Abraham Lincoln, who fought to hold a nation together. It was the party of Dwight Eisenhower, who ...

President Trump is doing all he can to deprive us of precious freedoms, turn our country into an authoritarian state, rule with near-dictatorial powers and rig elections in favor of Republicans. He is ...

Since the founding of the United States of America, women’s central role in safeguarding democracy has been overlooked—even as women have consistently, generation after generation, worked to protect ...

A woman holds up a placard during a candlelight vigil where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was fatally shot by immigration agents last week, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 28, 2026. (Photo by ROBERTO ...

The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” A poster featuring President Donald Trump in a SS ...

When heavily armed agents of the federal government arrived in Minneapolis, the people of the Twin Cities responded with surprising strength. In this episode, residents describe what drove them to act ...

Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, refined through centuries of revolution and philosophical debate, and now ...