Across the world, the defining political struggle isn’t left versus right — it’s whether institutions can restrain leaders who demand personal loyalty over constitutional limits. In Hungary, Turkey ...

Across the world, the defining political struggle isn’t left versus right — it’s whether institutions can restrain leaders ...

Two senior BBC officials have resigned following allegations of editing US President Donald Trump's speech. Reports suggest ...

In the final installment of the “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series, Condoleezza Rice examined the sources of distrust in ...

Democracy is not in decline. The nation-state is. That distinction — between democracy and the nation-state — might seem strange because it is so rarely made. When people around the world talk about ...

David Koranyi is the President of Action for Democracy, former national security advisor to Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai. President Donald Trump is a disrupter-in-chief. His political rise ...

The former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, has been analyzing the rise of autocracies and the threats they pose to ...

Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Save Few developments have mattered ...

In 1961, the scholar and diplomat George F. Kennan observed that There is nothing in nature more egocentric than the embattled democracy. It soon becomes the victim of its own war propaganda. It then ...

The lecture examines the long and tangled modern history of Catholicism and democracy, with one eye toward its implications for the study of global history and another toward our understanding of the ...

A G20 taskforce led by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the establishment of a global panel to tackle inequality, warning that widening wealth gaps threaten democracy and global ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...