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

Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

The road back to democracy from authoritarianism is a difficult one, filled with fits and starts that thwart even the best ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily ...

A Democratic state senator representing part of Wake and Granville County has stepped down, citing a need to focus on ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

The word “democracy” is almost sacrosanct in modern society, yet what advocates call “our democracy” is not what it claims to ...

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 featuring President Donald Trump in a SS ...

As America approaches its 250th anniversary amid deepening divisions, the Eagleton Institute is hosting events designed to ...

The fledgling democracy under the German Weimar Republic after World War I soon collapsed into Nazi authoritarianism.

Two former NASA astronauts announce Astronauts for America, a new organization of over 100 ex-astronauts working to protect ...