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Republicans have long focused on freedom as an election issue. Kamala Harris appears to be shifting the Democrats’ strategy to offer a rival view of what freedom means.
Adherents to the ‘new right’ ideology in Latin America are leveraging the tools of democracy to erode the democratic system from within and prolong their grip on power
Youth unemployment and out-of-control inequality are just two reasons voters have begun to lose patience with strongman capitalism. Voting is always the key to defeating authoritarianism.
Trump and the movement behind him is both new and old. Times are unprecedented but also, to historians of America, frighteningly familiar. Nick Bryant’s book excavates that history.
Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli dissected the threats authoritarian figures pose to representative government.
Donald Trump’s reaction to his conviction provides a textbook case of demagoguery – which erodes democratic institutions and can prime an audience for violence. His followers went right along.
Governments across Latin America are resorting to draconian measures in an attempt to rein in surging gang violence.
One-third of Americans think that “rule by a strong leader or the military would be a good way of governing their country.” Are they losing faith in democracy?
Stakeholders, whether they be policymakers, political parties, civil society or the media, must proactively pursue electoral integrity.
Rwanda’s preoccupation with security is at odds with its desire for unity.
Donald Trump stands trial – the first former president to do so – on April 15, 2024.
In the early 2000s, Jon Stewart perfected the art of ironic satire, playfully critiquing politicians, political institutions, the press and the public. What’s his role now?
The Central Asian nation has long figured among the ‘worst of the worst’ in regards to political and human rights. A new report shines light on cases of activists being seized and then going missing.
Recent laws and pro-Putin sentiment by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have sparked concern that the Central Asian country is backsliding on democracy.
One of Donald Trump’s favorite politicians is the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Would a country led again by Trump embrace similar antidemocratic politics?
Religion and nationalism were once ideologies at odds. Now, they are increasingly bedfellows, with populism often the glue.
Tucker Carlson’s sycophantic interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his subsequent praise for Russia’s subways, supermarkets and cheeseburgers, was not journalism. It was propaganda.
A survey of people across 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean found widespread concern over the economy and crime.
The Arch of Reunification has been destroyed – reversing decades of government policy targeting eventual reunification with the South.
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