Somewhat lost to history in our memory and mythology of the founding fathers is the fact that their optimism regarding their ...

which took place respectively in 1776 and 1787, were conceived in a national context, but the universal principles of freedom and democracy set forth in these two documents have had a profound impact ...

Violent events recorded by ACLED over the past decade Nowhere on Earth is seeing such a dramatic reversal of democracy ... and high stakes for much of the world. Warning: This graphic requires ...

Picture: Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP “America’s current retreat from its engagements around the world — from gutting ... Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, based on the Declaration ...

For comparing countries, their _____ is considered to be one of the most important attributes by the World Bank ...

New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, governments and political parties, has been declining in democratic ...

Like apartheid-era South African whites, today’s Republicans will need to choose between an accommodation with the coming ...

Uruguay has been recognized as the only full democracy in South America and the leading democracy in Latin America, according to the Democracy Index 2023 compiled by the Economist Group and ...

Just 6.6% of the world’s population now lives in a full democracy, down from 12.5% ten years ago. And a large share of the world’s population—currently two in five people—lives under ...

Image: A soldier near the front in Khartoum, Sudan Maps tracking each side's areas ... the largest and fastest displacement crisis in the world. The latest UN data suggests that 12.8 million ...