Winston Churchill, the British statesman, once opined that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all others.

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Trump-backed proposal to conduct a new census and redraw congressional districts is clearly ...

Informal “café” groups across Europe are challenging state narratives and raising their voices as fears grow over Slovakia’s ...

The 'Excessive Wealth' Conference hears from a millionaire heir about how global corporations exploit consumers and undermine democracy ...

The democracy-vs-autocracy framing has widened the divide between democratic countries — “us” — and Russia and its allies — ...

In his recent piece, "Of Reactionaries, Clerics and Protests," Dr. Nerses Kopalyan casts the growing unrest in Armenia as a ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in ...

Whether or not the United States has stuck to its principles consistently in our foreign relations is no reason to abandon ...

It is illiberal democracy in action. For Americans who seek to preserve our fundamental freedoms, there can be only one response. It is the one that has already been manifested in the streets of the ...

06/13/2025 Klara Dobrev is head of Hungary's opposition Democratic Coalition and former vice president of the European Parliament. DW spoke to her about the rise of illiberal democracy in Europe ...