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At the annual Media and Democracy Summit held at UD, diverse voices confront a growing crisis: the erosion of trust in media and its impact on democracy The news is breaking. It is also, in the eyes ...

Like any big party, the guest list is already sparking controversy. With democracy in recession around the world, President Joe Biden made a campaign pledge to convene a summit of democracies in his ...

Leaders of more than one hundred countries took part in the U.S.-hosted Summit for Democracy in early December, seeking to spotlight efforts to confront authoritarianism, fight corruption, and promote ...

At the Office of Civic Life’s Democracy Summit Wednesday, author Barbara McQuade addressed the growing threat of misinformation and its impacts on society. McQuade was the keynote speaker for the ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration extended invitations to 120 global leaders for next week’s Summit for Democracy, including to representatives from eight countries that weren’t invited to the ...

Amid a backdrop of global democratic backsliding and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States, Costa Rica, Netherlands, South Korea, and Zambia cohosted the second Summit for Democracy on March ...

A long-overdue summit between the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation to discuss peace in Ukraine, where nuclear war has been threatened, must be seen as a historic moment for ...