"We often think that courts or legislatures can be a check, but what our research shows is that those checks are not neutral, ...

The law against insulting the Thai monarchy has become a common tool for silencing Thai activists. Now, a foreign academic ...

When other countries hear about America's democratic troubles, they like us less—but they'll still work with us. That's the ...

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The US is swinging like a pendulum between more autocratic and more democratic forms of government. How long will this ...

The facts are clear: Democracy is backsliding around the world. In 2024, more than 40 percent of the global population was ...

In total, 45 countries were “autocratizing” last year – an increase from 42 that were moving away from more democracy in 2023. That amounts to more than 3 billion people, or 40% of the world ...

Professor, welcome back to Democracy Now! Can you lay out what is the effect of the tariffs, as you see them, on the poorest countries of the world? JAYATI GHOSH: Well, I think what’s really ...

According to Oxford University researcher Tim Vlandas, there is a causal relationship between the political pressures exerted ...

Decades of deregulation, political polarisation, and elite-driven capitalism have fuelled a dangerous convergence of ...

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