For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.

Recent years have seen a sharp decline in the global success rate of nonviolent democracy movements. Why this is ...

Once a democracy starts to erode, it can be difficult to reverse the trend. Only 42% of democracies affected by autocratization – a transformation in governance that erodes democratic safeguards – ...

The ‘No Kings’ protest in Washington, D.C., drew participants from across the Mid-Atlantic states to the National Mall.

The author compares the actions of the Trump administration with the rise of totalitarianism in Germany during the 1930s.

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike past forms, modern autocracy offers stability, encourages scepticism about political alternatives and causes ...

Public Education and the Future of Democracy, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Randi Weingarten, makes the case that democracy doesn’t only happen when political candidates vie ...

Last week – drawing upon a keynote address delivered (on 6th August 2025) at the invitation of Justice Access Point (JAP) – ...

We’re pleased to share this blog from the Kelon Felix, Chris Jones, Johan Rewilak & Yama Temouri, orginally posted by Centre ...

This special report focuses on the widespread 'No King's' protests across the United States against Donald Trump and his ...