The data shows that democracies are overrepresented at the World Cup and also tend to do better than authoritarian ...

In a red state like Tennessee, the left side of the political spectrum can be an isolating place. After seeing our elected representatives repeatedly institute autocratic, draconian state policy that ...

Democratization dynamics and authoritarian diffusion encompass the processes through which democratic governance emerges, consolidates or fails, alongside the mechanisms by which autocratic norms and ...

The Freedom House report was, overall, appropriately depressing. It found: “Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their ...

The past year has seen several self-identified democratic socialists prevail in key local races. But what exactly does it ...

Africa's young population often finds itself facing aging, autocratic rulers. Unwilling to settle for democratic rituals ...

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978, according to new research assessing more than 200 ...