CHICAGO — Growing up in the Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio, trying to catch words through the ...

A new yearly report on the condition of global democracy is sounding an alarm, and the United States, the oldest worldwide symbol of freedom, might not remain a democracy by next year's edition, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the most election-heavy year in recent history, democracy has hit a record low around the world, according to a new study.

Experts at the Democracy Forum in Athens this week will explore the global challenges to democracy and attempt to weigh how endangered it really is. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger is chief ...

One week before the 2024 election, Stanford professors Condoleezza Rice, the former U.S. Secretary of State and director of the Hoover Institution, and Michael McFaul ’86 M.A. ’86, director of the ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of ...

CHICAGO — Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio, trying to catch words ...

Joan Hoey, director of The Democracy Index at the Economist Intelligence Unit, discusses the latest findings of its report noting an increase of eight in the number of authoritarian regimes in the ...

Amid a backdrop of global democratic backsliding and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States, Costa Rica, Netherlands, South Korea, and Zambia cohosted the second Summit for Democracy on March ...

As India, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term, and the United States, soon to be led by President-elect Donald Trump in his second term, look to navigate a transformative era, the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back where it was in 1978, according to new research ...