Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

Democracy does not survive on values alone. It survives on economic balance sheets. And across historical eras, a more equitable balance has always leaned toward those who contribute, participate, and ...

A leading global research center on democratic systems has issued a stark warning about political trends in several countries, concluding in its latest annual report that Bulgaria is now among those ...

The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” A poster on a wall in Margate, United Kingdom, showing ...

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 ...

There’s snow in the mountains, kids are playing in the streets and gardens are coming to life across Alaska. But beneath that surface of normalcy, something profound and troubling is happening in our ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

But it is doing so while weakening the very institutions that made its global leadership possible. Washington talks ...

What is philosophically troubling is not Traoré alone. It is the applause. Across African social media, across certain Pan-Africanist circles, and among a disturbing number of otherwise intelligent ...