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 ...

What we believe is determined by more than just the facts we are exposed to, according to a new study in Psychological ...

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.

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of ...

Two leading democracy watchdog organizations are releasing studies this week that evaluate the state of American democracy after President Trump's first year.

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 ...

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 ...

Daily Nation on Wednesday led with a story that had me go: “ Blimey, there goes an editor’s nightmare.” It was about a closed-door meeting between one President, one Prime Minister and one recently ...

Rural America sits at the center of a profound energy paradox: communities with some of the nation's richest renewable resources continue to face persistent energy insecurity, economic vulnerability, ...

American democracy is again at a crossroads. Some interpret this period as one of institutional strain; others see an opportunity for renewal and reinvention that places power more firmly in the hands ...

Democracy is a living commitment to the values of freedom, human rights and justice. The late civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis offered this deeply meaningful description: “Democracy is not a ...