The institution of American democracy relies as much on the actions of American citizens as it does on Constitutional actors.

As propaganda and polarization erode faith in India’s key institutions, citizens must rise above partisanship to defend the ...

Brands beat out governments and institutions, reclaiming a higher score in people's trust ladder, just below relatives and ...

An upcoming court decision could sound the death knell for Turkey’s primary opposition party and its democracy.

Shashi Tharoor’s remark on Hindu lobbying abroad has reignited debate on why Indian-Americans cannot match Jewish influence ...

Economic news was incongruous this past week as three economists got Nobel prizes for their research on factors that ...

The themes and tropes of fascism — crude but familiar — are exploding across the US, UK, and Europe, as far-right parties gather support from disenchanted ...

Freedom House has been tracking how governments across the world, over the past two decades, have increasingly used ...

State institutions are either paralyzed or complicit, and citizens increasingly take refuge in mob justice. This is how ...

When he reentered the White House in January, President Donald Trump insisted that protecting free speech was one of his key missions. On his first day back in office, he signed an executive order ...

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some ...

Through purges in intelligence agencies, institutional politicization and an authoritarian drift, the American president has ...