The administration wants to do what it chooses without checks upon its powers. That is a dictatorship, not a constitutional ...

What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of ...

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

In all, the moves represent a retrenchment from the U.S. role in spreading democracy beyond its borders. Experts say the ...

A conversation with scholar Larry Diamond about the state of U.S. democracy.

That said, behavioral research suggests that human nature might constrain how long democracies can survive and how widely ...

Bangladesh’s Election Commission has cancelled the registration of the former ruling party of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, preventing it from participating in the next national election, which ...

State media say Mali’s military government has announced the suspension of political party activities in the West African ...