G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

The more people use social media, the less likely they are to believe democracy is the best form of government, the survey of ...

More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is ...

Authoritarian Watch / The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United ...

Strong majorities of Californians believe democracy is under attack and support enacting a new state Voting Rights Act to ...

Burkina Faso's military leader, who seized power in a coup in September 2022, told journalists that "people need to forget ...

About half of Americans say democracy is performing poorly, according to a survey. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey found that 51 percent of respondents ...

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

Is the United States a model democracy? Not that long ago, I suspect, most Americans would have answered with a resounding yes. But times have changed. We’ve lost confidence in our own system of ...

Amy Goodman will discuss her career, a new documentary and the role of independent journalism in a shifting media landscape.