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 ...

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WASHINGTON— President Joe Biden opened the first-ever White House Summit for Democracy Thursday by urging participants to reverse an ongoing "recession" of democracy. "American democracy is an ongoing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Longtime defenders of immigrants' rights gathered in Los Angeles for the day-long summit United We Stand: Defending Democracy ...

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 ...

July 22 (UPI) --For 24 hours, Chile became the center of a progressive call for unity to counter the rise of the global far right. Under the slogan "Democracy Always," Presidents Gabriel Boric of ...

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 ...