They want to know there is someone who cares for their needs and will fix their failing country. Donald Trump listened and ...

In the United States, support for the spread of freedom and democracy around the world has not reflected any partisan ...

Americans have re-elected Donald Trump, choosing a convicted demagogue who champions power over principle. This historic turn raises a sobering question: Is the West’s beacon of democracy slipping ...

Despite the middle class's reputation as a champion of democracy, Bryn Rosenfeld argued that in these countries, the middle class itself favoured autocracy, citing a mutually beneficial arrangement ...

Primers on environmental activism and a series on resisting autocrats offer a chance study up for the bumpy years ahead.

We are poised to relive that whole plunge into scientific darkness. Forget about Mars, folks, we are headed back to ...

Making and wielding the tools of war is at the center of the relationships among Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

Especially among our European allies, the fear arose that democracy in America, technically among the oldest democracies in ...

With billionaires on bended knee and criminal charges vanishing, America's strongman era begins. How can you react?

This mindset – a precursor to fascist regimes in other countries – is why it feels like a white-wash to ascribe Trump’s ...

In the last few months of his campaign, Trump was free and open with his dictatorial impulses as he talked about punishing ...

Michael McFaul and Steven Pifer, former U.S. ambassadors to Russia and Ukraine, respectively, stressed the necessity of Western assistance to Ukraine.