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 ...

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

Australia is one of the world’s leading democracies, but we’re not immune from the pressures causing backsliding overseas.

Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past 40 years have proved that democracy comes at a great cost to those most marginalized. Demonstrators in São ...

When the first Trump administration authored its national security strategy in 2017, democracy figured prominently. It labeled democracy something that “we hold dear.” It said the democratization of ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is ...

The Freedom House report was, overall, appropriately depressing. It found: “Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

Democracy today has come a long way since its earlier days. While some countries boast old traditions of democracy, what we mean by democratic governance today is characterized by open-ended systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden White House after stepping off Marine One, on March 1, 2026 - Mark Schiefelbein/AP When ...