Marist College found that 73 percent of adults thought there was a serious threat to the future of our democracy. And ...

Are we sleepwalking into an autocracy? We hope not, and we would be glad if the threat does not materialize. But as close observers of people and places where democracy has come under pressure and ...

Denial is a defense mechanism. We deny what is right in front of us because it is too disconcerting to face. We deny to ...

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” observed Nobel Prize-winning ...

As a result, Norris argued, “America faces clear risks of accelerated institutional backsliding from electoral democracy into an electoral autocracy.” Weakened institutions, democratic ...

But it will be tested as never before. Protecting our democracy does not stop there. The forces that support autocracy feast on corruption and efforts to dim the lights of transparency and ...

Two hundred and thirty-five years ago, our nation’s first president, George Washington, wrote a letter in response to Catharine Macaulay, an English feminist and historian. Macaulay wrote to ...

TAIPEI--Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil,” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Monday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for ...

Are we sleepwalking into an autocracy? We hope not, and would be glad if the threat does not materialize. But as close observers of people and places where democracy has come under pressure and ...

Moving forward, I hope to dig into these varieties of democracy and autocracy to see how countries representing each respond to aid shocks.