By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Democratic governance is under unprecedented strain worldwide, with Eastern Europe now a hotspot ...

Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time. Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

Journalist Anne Applebaum discusses her book "Autocracy, Inc." and the global rise of authoritarianism in this insightful ...

F or more than two centuries, American colleges have been wrestling earnestly, if not always successfully, with a set of questions rooted in the assumption that they were situated within a democratic ...

A quick quiz. Name two countries bravely fighting to protect their democracies from invasion by an autocratic neighbor. Can you name just one? The only one that comes to my mind is Ukraine. After ...

As the United States heads toward the midterm elections, there are growing concerns among some political scientists that the country has moved even further along the path to some form of autocracy.

Houston, we have a problem … And I mean Houston literally and humorously. America today is pretty much an autocratic plutocracy. That is a technical political term: “a system of governance where ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let's put "democracy" at one end of a spectrum and "autocracy" at the other and consider the ...

Schemes of national governance are complicated and subject to generalization, but for the sake of argument, let’s put “democracy” at one end of a spectrum and “autocracy” at the other and consider the ...