Democracy in Asia faces challenges, even where it is relatively liberal and strong, amid a global democratic recession ...

Barack Obama had a concerning warning about what the US could become as he spoke about Donald Trump's administration ...

A car burns during a protest following federal immigration operations, in the Compton neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on June 7, 2025. Picture: Getty “What we're seeing right now… is not ...

Former US president Barack Obama on Tuesday (June 19) warned about democratic backsliding in the country, saying the USA was “dangerously close” to normalising behaviour “consistent with autocracies.” ...

President Barack Obama, in conversation with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson, at The Connecticut Forum on June 17, 2025. HEATHER COX RICHARDSON, MODERATOR: I agree with you, actually, but ...

Former President Barack Obama warned that the United States is “dangerously close” to becoming “consistent with autocracies” during a civic group event in Connecticut.

Former President Barack Obama sounded the alarm on Donald Trump and his administration in a speech he delivered in Connecticut on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Obama did not call Trump ...

Former President Barack Obama warned that the United States is “dangerously close” to becoming “consistent with autocracies” during a civic group event in Connecticut.

And when that isn't happening, we start drifting into something that is not consistent with American democracy. It is consistent with autocracies. It's consistent with Hungary under Orban.

Former President Barack Obama was back in the spotlight, with a tired warning about the end of democracy. The former president conveniently ignored his own track record […] ...

Obama told a crowd in Hartford, Connecticut, that he doesn't feel current political climate is “consistent” with American democracy.