A leading global monitor of democratic governance says the United States, under the Trump administration, has lost its status ...

American democracy under Trump is officially eroding faster than Russian democracy did under Putin.

The V-Dem Institute’s Democracy Report 2026 (titled “Unraveling The Democratic Era?”), considered one of the most prestigious and statistically rigorous assessments of global governance, gave ...

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

Donald Trump’s authoritarian drift in his second term places the country on a par with Hungary or Turkey, according to a ...

Is democracy on the decline? One research institution says not only is the answer to that question “yes,” but that the decline has been happening for years – and the so-called democratic recession is ...

Nearly half the world’s population live in countries that will hold national elections this year, the largest such proportion in more than a century. But the big picture is complicated: “Over half of ...

Over half of the 60 countries holding national elections this year are experiencing a democratic decline, risking the integrity of the electoral process, as reported in the latest Democracy Report ...