The former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, has been analyzing the rise of autocracies and the threats they pose to ...

The editorial board’s sweeping catalog of the Trump administration’s threats to democracy makes a genuinely important ...

In a new analysis, the board outlined a list of a dozen markers of “democratic erosion,” along with the help of scholars who study it. It included tactics that, according to the board, Trump has ...

The New York Times published a project Friday outlining what its editorial board argued is an alarming shift toward ...

Democracy will not sustain if discrimination cannot be eliminated, said noted political and legal analysts and civil society ...

Trump's efforts to get Netanyahu pardoned by Israeli President Isaac Herzog are an attack on Israel's democracy itself.

Hungarian journalist András Pethő and former Hungarian Parliament member Gábor Scheiring watched Hungary become an ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

In short, our finding is that the American people are well along the path to living in an authoritarian country. Our analysts looked at the “indicators” we would see, overseas, when an autocrat rises ...

The obstacles we face are daunting and the outcomes are uncertain, but, to prevail, we must continually remember our collective power — and use it.