Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the ...

Authoritarian Watch / The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

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 ...

There’s snow in the mountains, kids are playing in the streets and gardens are coming to life across Alaska. But beneath that surface of normalcy, something profound and troubling is happening in our ...

IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

Only about a third of Americans are happy with the way democracy is working, according to a Gallup poll earlier this year. The first man, who wished to remain anonymous because of his job, is a local ...

Democracies under pressure: more and more countries are sliding into authoritarian systems of government and democratic systems are on the defensive, according to the latest Bertelsmann Stiftung ...

TAIPEI--Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China ...