IDS authors argue there is an urgent need to rethink democracy by centring people, power, and inequality, and put forward eight building blocks to strengthen democracy and resist democratic decline.

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

Authoritarian Watch / The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (gguy44/iStock Images) Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or ...

V-Dem’s aggregate index of the health of US democracy is back to 1965 levels, just after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet ...

Across the nation, there appears only one topic on which voters universally agree: “The country is divided.” But divided over what? Republican versus Democratic values? The character or future vision ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the ...

Donald Trump’s authoritarian drift in his second term places the country on a par with Hungary or Turkey, according to a ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The United States is no longer a democracy. At least, that’s the verdict of one nonprofit, the Center for Systemic Peace, which ...