“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history,” Aldous Huxley wrote, “is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” He might well have been talking about the ...

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Eight years on from Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator, the democratic doom boom in American commentary shows little sign of dissipating. “Democratic backsliding,” a term originating in ...

Troiano analyzed data from the Polity IV Project, which measures the degree of democracy or autocracy in countries over time, assigning each country a numerical score ranging from -10 (full autocracy) ...

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union claim that global democracies have gotten stronger and autocracies weaker in the last couple of years lacks evidence. Recent research suggests that democracy ...

At the outset of the digital age, democracies seemed ascendant. The United States and like-minded countries were at the cutting edge of technological development. Policymakers were pointing to the ...

I’m trying to find the right word here — disease for all democracies,” Kharytonov said. “It is obvious that Western democracies allowed China extraordinarily deep access to their critical sectors, and ...

NEXT, CHECKING DEMOCRACY'S PULSE. IT'S STILL THREATENED IN SO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD BY THE RISE OF AUTHORITARIANISM. WRITER YASCHA MOUNK IS KNOWN FOR HIS WORK ON DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND LIBERAL ...

As winter neared, many observers were concerned about the resilience of European democracies during Russia’s war against Ukraine. The triple pressures of economic downturn and inflation, energy crisis ...

People have long assumed that autocrats and dictators have an advantage in waging war. Today, as the novel coronavirus sweeps across the globe, there is some speculation that autocracies have an edge ...

The challenges of pandemic and climate change are being closely studied, but have done little so far to settle the eternal debate over whether authoritarian governments or democracies fare better in ...

Internet shutdowns are an increasingly popular tool for digital repression. It’s what many in wealthy, liberal democratic countries can’t ever imagine happening—authorities blocking access to social ...