Years of covering power struggles and civil wars leads world affairs editor Sam Kiley to question whether Trump is ...

I’ve spent the past 12 years studying the breakdown of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism around ... At issue was a classic frame-of-reference problem. America’s political culture ...

The trending words about the global political scene as the 20th century closed were democracy, liberalism and globalization. As the Cold War concluded, optimism for a more open and inclusive world ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat.

and What It Reveals About America Today." How are you feeling right now in this time of global democracy crisis and authoritarian populism, specifically the rise of Trumpism? How are you making ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed nearly a quarter-century ago, it led to triumphalism about the "end of history" and the ultimate victory of liberal democracy ... prompt the rise of illiberal ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts — It should not have come as such a surprise ... said they were satisfied with "the way US democracy is working." American democracy has long promised four things: shared ...

“America is the greatest democracy in the world ... Jessie Rossman, the legal director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, and a member of Öztürk’s legal team — who argued in front of the ...

And in several high-income democracies, dissatisfaction has been on the rise. How we did this This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on views of democracy in 31 countries across the Asia-Pacific ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk. Tech billionaire Elon Musk at the campaign launch of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party, on January 25, 2025 in Halle, Germany.. Sean Gallup ...