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

Between a reduction in freedoms in the U.S. and an uptick in organized collaboration among autocracies around the world, Freedom House’s most recent Freedom in the World report paints a stark image of ...

The University of Gothenburg's latest report shows that the United States is no longer a liberal democracy, having ...

By Felix Richter of Statistia Released on March 19, the latest Freedom in the World 2026 report finds that global freedom ...

Democracy is on the defensive. This is shown by the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Transformation Index 2026 (BTI). The BTI was first surveyed twenty years ago, when democracies were still in the ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

We find ourselves in the midst of a crisis of truth. Trust in public institutions of knowledge (schools, legacy media, universities and experts) is at an all-time low, and blatant liars are drawing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Democracies’ anti-corruption efforts are flagging, with global corruption perception indexes hitting their lowest ...

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

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing criticism of the Obama administration's handling of a deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, on Friday defended the need for ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece ...

BERLIN (AP) — Established democracies’ efforts against public-sector corruption appear to be flagging, according to a survey released Tuesday that serves as a barometer of perceived corruption ...