A new global democracy report finds the U.S. at its lowest level of democratic performance in the 50 years it has been measured.

In 2026, 64% of Americans say social media is harming their democracy, and attitudes in many other countries are ...

Democracy Forward's Skye Perryman discussed Donald Trump using ICE as a 'police state' to try and influence the midterms.

While I was in Athens, a Palestinian democracy activist from East Jerusalem, Samer Sinijlawi, reached out to me with a ...

The corruption of democracy begins with the corruption of thought—and with the deliberate undermining of reality. Stephen Richer, an election official in Arizona, and Adam Kinzinger, a former ...

Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

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Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Hayley Williams called Christian nationalism the greatest threat to American democracy at a recent concert, drawing sharp ...

A majority of Germans view the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a threat to democracy, according to a poll ...