Steve Jarding headlines this year's Chiesman Center for Democracy annual conference at the University of South Dakota.

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

Yale SOM’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-author Stephen Henriques argue that as trust in U.S. institutions erodes, business ...

Authoritarian Watch / The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United ...

More than three-quarters of Americans say democracy is currently under threat, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is ...

The more people use social media, the less likely they are to believe democracy is the best form of government, the survey of ...

Vermont's Democratic Party claims to champion inclusion — but a four-person committee, all of whom live in the same ward and ...

Amy Goodman will discuss her career, a new documentary and the role of independent journalism in a shifting media landscape.

While the crowd size waned a bit from the first No Kings Protest in 2025, the enthusiasm of the participants did not. Around ...

Democracy "kills" and the people of Burkina Faso must "forget" it, the country's military ruler has said in an interview ...

Today, Nepal stands at the top in South Asia, with women holding 34.9% of parliamentary seats followed by Pakistan at 21.7% and India at 13.8%. By comparison, Bangladesh’s total representation is ...

Burkina Faso's military leader, who seized power in a coup in September 2022, told journalists that "people need to forget ...