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Hope for Canada: Democratic Resilience

Canada may be the shining hope of democratic resilience that the United States needs to see. In Canada’s most recent elections on Monday, Prime...

As the United States and Iran come to a tentative ceasefire, President Trump and former MAGA podcasters can’t seem to do the same. The Make...

Democratic erosion doesn’t happen suddenly, or even in the form of coups anymore; instead, it occurs through the gradual, internal erosion of...

Debates about voting laws have a long history of being highly contested in American politics. While proposals claiming to secure democracy have...

Democratic backsliding is often seen as a political problem, a phenomenon that manifests itself in elections, courts, or constitutions. But what...

Turkey, once hailed as a model of democracy for its neighbors, has experienced a steady democratic decline over more than two decades of rule by...

Recent attacks on academics in the United States point to a broader and more concerning trend, which is the erosion of democratic norms through...

Since 1950, India has been considered the world’s largest democracy. Although democracy-watching organizations have different methods of...

This post will be about disloyal opposition and the swelling out of rural community properties to big corporations and Data center constructions...