Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock is quite “excited" to join Instagram, and is looking forward to her time on the ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

Americans who spend at least five hours a day on social media are more likely to feel heard, but also more open to political violence and less supportive of democracy, according to a major new poll ...

A journal called Liberal Currents recently invited me to contribute to a scholarly symposium on what the editor, Adam Gurri, described as “how we can move to a new, stable democratic regime after ...

The Freedom House report was, overall, appropriately depressing. It found: “Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Democracy in the United States is declining faster than in any other ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...

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When the first Trump administration authored its national security strategy in 2017, democracy figured prominently. It labeled democracy something that “we hold dear.” It said the democratization of ...

In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is ...

Helena Carpio is a Venezuelan investigative journalist based in Caracas. Government security forces shot tear gas at protesters for over seven hours on May 1, 2017 as they gathered around Caracas to ...