This March, as the world marks International Women’s Day, women’s rights organizations are not waiting to be recognised — they are leading movements, defending rights, and redefining what democracy ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

Most critics of President Donald Trump view him as the ultimate threat to American democracy. But to Nobel Prize–winning economist Daron Acemoglu, Trump is merely a fever, the result of an infection ...

Pinky Amador is unbothered whenever someone accuses her of being “pa-woke,” or too vocal about political matters, saying it is the reason why people enjoy the privileges of their lives at the moment.

America might be one of the world’s biggest democracies, but under Donald Trump’s second term as President, a lot of people believe that American democracy is in danger. According to Nobel ...

Writing for the blog of the Law and Political Economy Project, Beau Baumann, a professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, has a provocative question for would-be left-wing ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978, according to new research assessing more than 200 ...