Donald Trump’s assault on American democracy has been devastating. Equally devastating, however, is the impact that it is having on democracy around the world. Historically, America had been viewed as ...

Democracy is backsliding. Valery Perry joins us to discuss threats abroad—and here at home. With one in three global elections contested and turnout falling, democracy is in retreat. Valery Perry, ...

Democracies are backsliding and freedom is increasingly under threat across the globe. And the U.S. government has directed its embassies to watch in silence. That silence is not neutral—it is a green ...

This week, Paul Biya declared victory for an eighth term as president of Cameroon, an extremely poor Central African country suffering from two violent insurgencies, entrenched corruption and poor ...

CHICAGO — Growing up in the Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio, trying to catch words through the ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

A new report from the University of East Anglia has raised concerns about the state of democracy around the world during 2024's "Super Cycle" of elections. Described by Time Magazine as the "Year of ...

Despite President Bush’s frequent calls for the spread of democracy around the world, a survey released yesterday by the Pew Research Center showing an increasingly isolationist sentiment among the ...

Valere Gaspard is a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa and a Research Fellow at Western University and Trent University’s Leadership and Democracy Lab. His research is supported in part by ...