The United States is pulling back from its role in spreading democratic ideals abroad under President Donald Trump.

What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

The preamble to the United States Constitution teaches us that among the foundational goals of the American government was to ...

A conversation with scholar Larry Diamond about the state of U.S. democracy.

That said, behavioral research suggests that human nature might constrain how long democracies can survive and how widely ...

Hundreds of activists defied threats from Mali’s military government in the first pro-democracy rally since soldiers took ...

Trust in Japan's parliamentary politics is wavering. Politicians have been unable to present solutions to social issues, and ...

State media say Mali’s military government has announced the suspension of political party activities in the West African ...