Democracy

The Jan. 6 Capitol riot marked a setback for millions of people around the world who yearn for more democratic societies where their voices matter.

The voices of those who have suffered most from democracy’s ills are crucial to understanding – and addressing -- the impact of backsliding laws, policies, and institutions…

The Biden administration must create a system in which human rights and democracy policymaking is embedded and integrated in its decision-making machinery.

Machinations of hardliners from Sri Lanka to Hungary, Colombia and more signal the trouble Trump and his supporters could make for the Biden administration.

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.