The growing dominance of nationalist populism is remaking world order, engendering what I call a “Concert of Authoritarianism ...

Six weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, experts are sounding the alarm for democracy. Trump quickly followed his inauguration with an attack on the bureaucratic state, threats to the rule ...

Scholar and bestselling author Steven Levitsky discusses whether the U.S. will go down a darkly familiar path.

While I'm grateful for the stand taken against President Trump, there's a lot of work and meaningful advocating left to do.

To some extent, the right wing’s Putin lovefest is simply the result of cultlike fealty to Trump: If he blasted the Putin ...

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Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.

Two studies released this week, by Freedom House and the Economist Intelligence Unit, found international democracy in ...

The rapidly spreading authoritarianism coming from this administration threatens all of our freedoms. Over the last 48 hours, ...

“The threats to American democracy in the United States are now immediate, serious, and mounting by the day,” democracy scholar Larry Diamond wrote this week. “Multiple illegal and unconstitutional ...

As Trump and Musk slash USAID funds, they argue the cash is wasted on hyper-progressive culture wars, which misrepresents the importance of USAID's work.