Democracy

A week before the Jan. 6 US Capitol attack, Turkey's president waged another kind of assault on one of his country’s last bastions of democratic thought.

There are many indisputable facts about last week’s violent and deadly incursion into the Capitol building. It is beyond debate that the fiasco included multiple criminal acts.…

Dozens of judges, from all political persuasions, uniformly rejected the extravagant claims of President Donald Trump to set aside the presidential election results, or to compel…

While European Union membership would be beneficial to Serbia as a whole, it may not serve the interests of the country’s ruling elites.

The president’s post-election litigation has crashed and burned, but it has reinforced the pernicious idea, born from Bush v. Gore, that it is appropriate for courts to step…

Pro-democracy political leaders, activists, and media can build on their successes against such influence with help from the world’s leading democracies.

The disruptive potential of this trend will remain a core challenge to political stability as the world staggers toward post-pandemic life.

Any other challenge will be exponentially harder to address as long as authoritarian leaders and the militarized systems that support them have free rein.

Putting an end to the spread of corruption from kleptocratic autocracies into the United States will be one of the most significant challenges for the incoming administration.

Now is the time to fundamentally reform how the executive branch addresses the transnational matter of upholding human rights and advancing democracy at home and abroad. The project…

Ninth essay in a series of top experts exploring proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government, public integrity, and the rule of law.

"Civil society movements in several African countries have recent, hard-won experience with many of the scenarios we face in the United States. ... Their experiences have yielded…