The facts are clear: Democracy is backsliding around the world. In 2024, more than 40 percent of the global population was affected by declines in freedom, according to Freedom House. On the other ...

More than a month after South Korea’s now-impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, declared martial law, the country remains deep in political crisis. The one-month mark since the Dec. 3 martial law decree ...

The Stanford Continuing Studies Department launched its second annual “Reimagining Democracy” weekly webinar speaker series on Oct. 7, featuring professor Francis Fukuyama, an Olivier Nomellini Senior ...

For the last 10 years, we’ve been hearing that President Donald Trump will preside over the end of democracy in America. In liberal circles, that assertion is often accepted as fact. For many, the ...

Experts at the Athens Democracy Forum this week will explore the challenges to democracy, from artificial intelligence and subversion to complacency and inequality. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...

At a forum in Athens, leaders discussed challenges to democracy that they said stemmed from both internal and external forces. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from Athens This article is from a special ...

Sir: The Regional Partnership for Democracy (RPD) represents a timely and essential initiative in the pursuit of inclusive, accountable, and resilient political systems across West Africa. This ...

The Indonesian government has passed revisions to Law No. 34/2004 on the National Military — allowing active military personnel to hold positions in more civil government bodies and ministries — which ...

Supreme Court Rightly Keeps the Texas Republican Gerrymander for 2026 Hegseth Did Not Give a ‘Kill Them All’ Order Report: Hegseth Pushed Out Commander of U.S. Military Ops in Caribbean Audio By ...

To save our democracy, the 19th-century French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville would tell us, start a book club. Join a church. Or, perhaps most crucially, volunteer at a local school or run for ...