A majority of voters nationally are not satisfied with how democracy is working in the U.S. but are open to a dictator who reflects their views, according to a new survey by the Center for a ...

Ukraine recently marked a grim three-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. The Kremlin’s plan was to capture the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, in three days, arrest Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Taiwan’s democracy didn’t emerge from peaceful reform alone but from decades of authoritarian rule that unintentionally laid ...

Protesters hold a massive rally near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday, December 7, 2024, calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol's ouster after his martial law attempt. Yoon ...

In his recent post on X, he even wrote a line that could have come from Lenin or Stalin: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” And like many autocrats, he weaponizes democracy’s own ...

Trump wants FBI agents who investigated his coup attempt, his facilitating espionage, or his other financial and criminal activities fired. Let’s be very clear: this is how dictatorships start. A guy ...

Democracy as a system of governance has its attractions, which include, but are not limited to, political tolerance, a ...

The centerpiece of 250 years of American democracy has been how our courts have interpreted and decided the legality of laws passed by Congress and executive orders issued by Presidents, based on the ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

Last week marked 50 years since the death of Francisco Franco, the fascist dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975. How does a democracy handle the ...