The Venezuela attack represents the clearest example during Trump’s second presidency of a shift to an America exerting unilateral power based purely on perceived economic interests and military might ...

A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future. As President Trump’s consolidation of autocratic power gains ...

On a Monday evening panel entitled “Democracy in the World,” Freeman Spogli Institute director Michael McFaul ’85 M.A. ’86 and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice ’86 said that the ...

American democracy faces growing polarization and extremism, disinformation is sowing chaos and distrust of election results, and public discourse has become increasingly toxic. According to most ...

Readers respond to a Times editorial detailing the country’s slide toward autocracy. To the Editor: Re “Are We Losing Our Democracy?” (editorial, Nov. 2): The editorial board’s sweeping catalog of the ...

In response to a recent letter to the editor suggesting we offer money and a plane ticket to those who do not like living in this country’s democracy: With what is left of a democracy that is quickly ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van der ...

The last 30 years or thereabout saw the resurgence of democracy in Africa, principally because of pressure from the United States of America (USA) and other western European countries. With the USA ...