In the United States, internal divisions, political dissatisfaction, and institutional dysfunction have become so severe over the past year that the country is backsliding “much faster” than “any ...

On June 3rd, South Korea held local elections. In Seoul and several major cities, polling stations ran out of ballots. Some ...

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The New York Historical’s expansive Tang Wing highlights the role of protest for America’s 250th anniversary.

Our vote gives witness to our Christian conviction regarding what truly matters, what will remain and what we put into the ...

Five years ago, white plumes of tear gas arced through Hong Kong's humid air. Hundreds of thousands of angry protesters were on the streets, demanding their Beijing-appointed leader resign and calling ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...

A majority of Americans worry this year’s general election will be tainted by fraud, according to a recent NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released earlier this month—an ominous indication of the state of ...

For months leading up to Indonesia’s presidential elections in February, and in the weeks since, a good number of talking heads have been trying to parse whether President-elect Prabowo Subianto’s ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

Africa’s greatest democratic threat may not be dictatorship, military intervention or constitutional crises. It may be the growing tendency of political parties to see national setbacks as political ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. That was true before an assassination ...