A few years ago, I got into an argument with a friend about religion. The question we tussled over: Would America be better ...

Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a professor of Government. Democracy is in ...

Trump is ransacking the institutions that keep the nation going, including the IRS, CDC and NIH, which support not only democracy but life itself.

The trending words about the global political scene as the 20th century closed were democracy, liberalism and globalization. As the Cold War concluded, optimism for a more open and inclusive world ...

Did Germans in the 1930s recognize their democracy’s collapse? Did they see their leader’s moral bankruptcy and thirst for power? Let’s ask ourselves the same today. The warning signs are ...

At the same time, countries across the continent appear increasingly amenable to military rule and the stability it can ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

Ressa joined Amna Nawaz to discuss parallels between the Philippines and the U.S. under President Trump for our series, On Democracy.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance's criticism of European democracy on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. "Democracy does not mean that a ...

We are living in an era of profound political and social upheaval, when the foundational principles of democracy—dialogue ... themselves and their families. Today, we acknowledge them as ...