No stranger to turmoil, Bangladesh is set to usher in a new democratic future. How did it get here – and how is it meeting ...

The world faces a clear choice between democracy and authoritarianism, according to President Obama. Obama was reflecting on the state of the world in his final address to the United Nations General ...

Voting rights activist and two-time Democratic nominee for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams spoke about fighting authoritarianism and defending democracy at Northwestern’s annual Knox Conversations ...

Amid the political and economic changes of the early 2000s, it seemed unthinkable that China would revert back to Mao-era ...

Leave it to the Democrats to find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of what looked like their first significant victory against President Trump in his second term. On Monday night, the ...

Mr. Schmidt is a former chief executive and chairman of Google. Mr. Sorota is Mr. Schmidt’s head of research. Albania is the first country to take a real step toward “algocracy”: government by ...

Dutch writer and historian Rutger Bregman said the BBC’s decision to edit out his claim that President Donald Trump was the “most openly corrupt president in U.S. history” reflected how “universities, ...

Very early on, the internet promised to democratize information and diminish authoritarians’ grip on power, but what has unfolded over the past 30 years has been more of a mixed bag, professor Steven ...

A group of protesters demonstrate holding placards against Communist sympathizers outside the Fox Wilshire Theatre in occasion of the premiere of the film 'Exodus,' in Los Angeles, December 1960. A ...