Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of ...

“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.

In just about a year, Donald Trump has reduced American measures of democracy and free speech to around the level of the 1950s-1960s.

Reflecting on bravery and civic responsibility of past generations, we must preserve freedom and democracy for future ...

Something is happening this Thursday that, during normal times, Americans wouldn’t need to pay a lick of attention to.

The U.S. ranks below 80 other countries in the 2024 Academic Freedom Index, scoring 0.68 out of 1.00. Over 600 university presidents released a statement defending academic freedom against government ...

On a special episode (first released on May 7, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: As a bulwark against the flood of propaganda and misinformation coming from China and Russia, the United States Agency for ...

In a few short months we will be celebrating the 250 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It is rightfully a cause for celebration.

A monitoring watchdog says press freedom across the Americas dropped sharply in 2025, with more killings, arrests and intimidation of media workers.

The month, American politics has laid bare a truth too big to ignore: our modern politics is consumed by a hypocrisy so deep it threatens the very fabric of our democracy. On Sept. 10, that hypocrisy ...

Many ordinary citizens still feel responsible for people they do not know ...