The last few weeks have been a particularly strange stretch in a campaign year that is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. The country is poised at a great fork in the road, with a historically ...

In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy. There are good reasons for ...

Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt, 1867, by Jean-Leon Gerome. (DeAgostini / Getty Images) On January 6, 2021, hundreds of demonstrators invaded the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the election of ...

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a ...

The president who declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time has concluded that he needs to accept some imperfect but important friends. By Peter ...

The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace that the United States is the world’s ...

It has of late become en vogue, at least in some circles, to claim that the United States, rather than a democracy is, in fact, a republic. This begs the question: What’s the difference? Recently, I ...

Preserving Democracy is challenging people to share with us how they’re #ReadyToVote2024. We’re also collaborating with the Human Impacts Institute and looking at how democracy and the issue of ...

Journalism and democracy are talked about as if their fate is tied together. But what really are their connections? Can journalism in its current practice protect both democracy and itself? Subbu ...

Cambodian opposition politician Kem Sokha greets villagers while making donations in rural Cambodia, in a photo posted to his Facebook page on February 20, 2022. Credit: Facebook/Kem Sokha In his ...