Maria Ressa, the journalist who earned the Nobel Peace Prize for her attempts to save freedom of expression in the ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

The administration has so far defied the Supreme Court, hiding behind the autocratic government of El Salvador, which it ...

Most — but not all — political scientists are deeply troubled by the president's attempts to expand executive power, ...

Is America slipping from a democracy to an autocracy, an oligarchy or some ... and plutocracy (ruled by the rich), for example. Some political scientists and researchers have debated whether ...

I was reminded of such instances of “extraordinary rendition” in the Bush-Cheney era when I read about the Trump administration’s March 2025 deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego García to a grim ...

Turkey is just one example of a country where democracy is under attack. As Canadians head to the polls soon, now is a good time to look for signs of autocracy in our own country and make our ...

Take Brazil, for example. Brazilian voters and the courts stemmed the country’s autocratic slide and returned it to a democratic regime. Today the American public is deeply divided and ...

U.S. elections for example, are run by state and local governments ... Parties trade majority control as voters react to extremism, shifting the regime from more autocratic to more democratic ...

U.S. elections for example, are run by state and local governments ... shifting the regime from more autocratic to more democratic depending on who is in power. The effect is a stable outcome ...

The world is watching, and history will judge our response. Let us ensure that the EU’s actions reaffirm our collective ...