Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

Is the US a democracy or a republic? That’s a misleading question, writes a historian of early America. The values of ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Icould not read Max Elbaum’s excellent piece without thinking about the late Jack O’Dell and his proposed Democracy Charter. But we shall get back to that in a minute. I could not agree more with what ...

Editorial: Gerrymandering is a serious threat to voters’ faith in democracy. It’s time for Congress to take action.

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 ...

I was born into Adolf Hitler’s Gestapo world in 1935. In 1953, I defected from Walter Ulbricht’s Stasi world to the West. Now I and my fellow Americans live under Donald Trump’s ICE enforcers. At the ...

Ryan D. Enos is a professor of Government. Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a professor of Government. Democracy is in greater peril today than at any ...

Since the early 2000s, the world has witnessed a deepening democratic recession, and Asia is no exception. Compromised political freedom, constitutionalism and competitiveness characterise many ...

Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.

Political actors around the world recognize the transformative potential of AI—unlocked by advancements in computing power, data, and modeling techniques—but they have different ideas about which ...