Venezuela’s president has built a system in which the only people who can truly tear down his dictatorship are the ones with ...

Will there even be elections in 2026? That is the question I get most often, and I understand where that fear is coming from. But the real question is: What kind of elections will they be? After all, ...

Matthew Purdy says that the use of vague rules by President Donald Trump and his administration to "justify arbitrary and ...

Digital authoritarianism is a new way governments are trying to control citizens using digital and information technology. It ...

They argue the case must be viewed “in the larger context of how politicized prosecutions are used in autocracies and ...

However, businesses are increasingly recognizing that they have a role to play in pushing back against authoritarian rule. Since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, more than 1 ...

That may well be the question being asked by "No Kings" protesters, who marched, rallied and danced all over the nation on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be ...

Even so, practices used globally to fight democratic backsliding or topple autocracies can be instructive. In a nutshell: ...

That may well be the question being asked by “No Kings” protesters, who marched, rallied and danced all over the nation on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Pro-democracy groups had aimed to encourage large ...

With autocracies outnumbering democracies for the first time in 20 years, and only 12% of the world’s population now living in a liberal democracy, the future of the global democratic experiment may ...

The European Union’s top official on Wednesday told Serbia's populist leader to “get concrete” about its proclaimed goal of joining the 27-nation bloc, including implementing sanctions against ...

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