Global patterns show that democracy around the world continued to weaken last year, according to a new report. The Global State of Democracy 2025, published by the Stockholm-based International ...

Winning an election is only the first step. For Bangladesh, the real test lies in turning votes into lasting institutions, accountable governance, and a resilient democracy ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

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, ...

Human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights. Narges Mohammadi in her apartment in Tehran on Jan. 16, 2024. Human ...

Experts at the Athens Democracy Forum this week will explore the challenges to democracy, from artificial intelligence and subversion to complacency and inequality. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...

Morocco ranked first among Arab countries in the Visual Capitalist’s 2025 Democracy Index map based on the 2024 Democracy Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, placing it at the head of ...

During the interwar years, support for revolutionary, anticapitalist parties by the Soviet-led Communist International laid the groundwork for the expansion of communism after World War II. Following ...

Majority of people in the USA across the political spectrum who were surveyed in July 2025, 76% on average, agreed that democracy in their country is under serious threat. This is not just an abstract ...

India fares very poorly in global democracy rankings not because the problems are worse in the country, but because Indians ...

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 ...

Jonathan Laurence warned that democracy in the United States will decline gradually and then suddenly, in line with current trends in democratic countries. “Half of 167 [democratic] countries ...