Democracy looks bruised but not beaten as it heads into 2025. In a year in which countries representing almost half the world's population called voters to the polls, democracies endured violence ...

The returning U.S. president is part of a wave of new leaders who have gained ground in Western countries, some of whom analysts warn are anti-democratic, even if popularly elected, because they seek ...

To start the new year on a happy note, I thought I’d write about how three countries scored gains toward democracy in 2024, with lessons to offer the Philippines. In two of these countries, the gains ...

The findings come just over a decade after the so-called Arab Spring protests called for democratic change. Less than two years after the protests, just one of those countries - Tunisia - remained ...