(AFP) — The United States has joined an annual list of "backsliding" democracies for the first time, the International IDEA think-tank said on Monday, pointing to a "visible deterioration" it said ...

(Joe Lamberti for The Washington Post) In Japan, the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered its worst defeat in over a decade, and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba became leader of a minority ...

The overall global average is 5,37, and the end of the democracy list is North Korea with 1,08 ... but the suppression of individual liberties in advanced democracies was most significant in ...

Less than 5% of the world's population lives in a "full democracy," according to a new report ranking countries by how functional their political systems are. The Economist Intelligence Unit ...