Democracy may be an abstract concept, but it holds the very essence of our autonomy and humanity, says lawyer and human ...

Wisconsin is the place that democracy can hold the line, creating accountability for those who abused power and diminished ...

The unprecedented outpouring of grief and love for Khaleda Zia after her death powerfully affirms that the nation has lost ...

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 ...

The arc of American politics has, critics warn, begun to bend towards autocracy rather than democracy, and recent institutional shifts and expert assessments suggest that shift is now measurable. Over ...

Trump “Wants the Oil” as Grassroots Resist “Economic Asphyxiation” “One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors”: NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza “Mayor for the Masses”: Can the ...

Five conditions determine whether revolutions succeed. For the first time since 1979, Iran meets nearly all of them.

During the dark years of military autocracy in the 1980s, Khaleda Zia emerged as the foremost civilian voice for democratic ...

A few decades ago, Venezuela was considered one of Latin America’s strongest democratic examples. Then it became an autocracy. Correspondent Hannah Dreier began reporting from Venezuela in 2014 when ...

The Opinion columnist M. Gessen examines how the president governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force ...