Users must now prove their age to access websites that host ‘adult’ content. Users can usually do this by uploading pictures ...

The global chorus of Western democracy promoters assumes that liberal democracy is the universal standard for freedom and progress. But can liberal democracy truly withstand the challenge posed by ...

We must change the discussion and argument. It is not the United States versus Venezuela, Iran versus Israel, or Nicaragua versus El Salvador. It is the free world juxtaposed to the authoritarians who ...

This is not the end of history. This is its violent return. Are we seeing democracy fading away slowly? Or is this just ...

Research by Harvard Kennedy School scholar Pippa Norris suggests that both autocracies and countries undergoing democratic ...

Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th birthday. But now, with experts warning that US democracy may ...

Mamdani’s detractors don’t care about his race; they care about clawing back a century of civil rights gains and the ...

Countries classified as liberal democracies by the Varieties of Democracy project of the University of Gothenburg were ranked based on the number of incidents of political violence that occurred ...

When Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and restored liberal democracy, the small Baltic country ...

Annual change in V-Dem liberal democracy index since 2008: -0.0100 per year Current regime classification: Electoral autocracy (since 2007) Recent episodes of unrest: Battle in Dhaka involving ...

This is not to equate Trump with the founders in character or intellect. Rather, it is to acknowledge that they were not enlightened democrats. They were revolutionaries.