That may well be the question being asked by “No Kings” protesters, who marched, rallied and danced all over the nation on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. Pro-democracy groups had aimed to encourage large ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rescuers and volunteers clean up the rubble and search victims after Russian missile hit the country's main children hospital Okhmadit during massive missile attack on many Ukrainian cities in Kyiv, ...

On Oct. 18, 2025,some seven million protesters across the U.S. staged “No Kings” marches. In major cities across Europe, North America, and the Pacific, using such slogans as “No Tyrants” or “No ...

Top tech firms are hoping a planned AI Export Program out of the Commerce Department will foster international consensus when it comes to promoting “democratic” AI frameworks and preventing “overly ...

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 ...

Protests erupted in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, in October 2020 following disputed parliamentary elections. Only four political parties out of 16 had passed the threshold for entry into ...