Democratic Backsliding & Solutions

Research shows that, more than military strikes or sanctions, authoritarians fear support for independent media, anti-censorship tech, and civil society.

Hungary's anti-corruption win offers U.S. democracy advocates lessons, but success requires a credible messenger and a concrete plan.

The attempt to condition states' counterterrorism funding on changes to election rules is unlawful and likely to be challenged in court.

Without robust safeguards, ramping up gold production in South Sudan could fuel corruption, money laundering, and conflict.

Steps should be taken to strengthen grand juries by giving courts and defense counsel more tools to act as a much-needed check on prosecutors.

New data shows how mass firings, loyalist replacements, and pressure tactics are turning U.S. immigration courts into a deportation enforcement arm.

In light of recent Supreme Court rulings, Congress should act now to assert the full extent of its authority over the federal bureaucracy.

Anyone who cares about the First Amendment should be concerned about HB 1471 and the spread of state-level terrorism designation laws.

Bosnian Serb leader denies the mass killings, rapes, and ethnic cleansing of Bosniaks while reviving racist, anti-Muslim narratives that preceded the atrocities.

In these two cases, the Court misread history with an unmistakable result: two fundamentally irreconcilable decisions.

A post-Trump America must finally turn transitional justice tools inward and reckon with failures it has long refused to face if it aims to repair, not simply ignore.

The single most important move the U.S. could make to aid Venezuela would be to lift all remaining economic sanctions on the country while maintaining some on individuals.