The thing to do, should you decide to emerge from your emotional shelter or your media bubble, is to see where you are ...
Drawing on lived experience from Tiananmen, I have come to believe that 4 concrete conditions determine whether an autocracy ...
There is plenty of reason for dismay at the Trump administration's actions over the past year, writes Carol Rose, the ...
Democracy may be an abstract concept, but it holds the very essence of our autonomy and humanity, says lawyer and human ...
Mongolia heads into 2026 with stable policies but fragile leadership and rampant infighting within the Mongolian People’s ...
Israel provides a second example of a democratic state battling to resist the slide towards autocracy. Benjamin Netanyahu is ...
The unprecedented outpouring of grief and love for Khaleda Zia after her death powerfully affirms that the nation has lost ...
Wisconsin is the place that democracy can hold the line, creating accountability for those who abused power and diminished ...
The FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home on Jan. 14, 2026, was a rare and intimidating move by an administration ...
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How to Save a Democracy

Looking at how the Trump administration fits into a pattern of authoritarian governance can empower people to think about how to best resist the country’s slide to autocracy.
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the ...
Rodríguez began her political career under Hugo Chávez and has held numerous prominent positions under Maduro, including oil ...