Is democracy in crisis today? It certainly seems to be, especially as we look over at the United States. Even in countries that have escaped the extreme nature of the crisis in the US — so far — we ...

The Daily sat down for a Q&A with political science Prof. Anna Galland, who teaches a seminar titled “U.S. Democracy in Crisis: Perspectives on the Path.” Outside Northwestern, she works as an ...

The integration of the internet and cyberspace into democratic politics has contributed to a crisis in Anglo-American democracy, with an intensely polarized population, constantly distracted political ...

How inevitable is the decline of liberal democracy? For a brief, heady moment after the Cold War, liberal democracy seemed not only in the ascendance but inevitable. History, according to that now ...

A new study from the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and Public Agenda finds that Americans are deeply concerned about the state of U.S. democracy and that growing divisions within the ...

Our democracy is in crisis. We’re polarized and allow money to dominate both parties. Truth is obscured by many media hacks ...

Mr. Campante is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Levitsky is a professor of government at Harvard. On Thursday, the Brazilian Supreme Court did what the U.S. Senate and federal courts ...

Members of the Israeli civic action group Brothers and Sisters in Arms march through an ultra-Orthodox neighorhood in Jerusalem on March 31 2024, protesting the exception from military service ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Anthony Kuhn is NPR's correspondent based in Seoul, South Korea, reporting on the Korean Peninsula, Japan, and the great diversity of Asia's countries and cultures. Before moving to Seoul in 2018, he ...

By 2025, democracy in Africa stood at a crossroads—marked by both resilience and regression in almost equal measure.