Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, in an interview Friday with Charlie Rose, discussed why military force can not turn foreign countries into liberal democracies. "I believe that if you ...

In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have ...

Many philanthropists, be they foundation-based or individual grantmakers, are committed to defending democracy in America amid its present peril. Over the past decade, these donors have spent billions ...

Péter Magyar will be sworn in as Hungary’s new prime minister this week. His government has a strong technocratic thrust — a departure from Viktor Orbán’s cronyism but hardly a revitalization of ...

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: An important (and harsh) lesson I’ve learned over the past decade is that the virtues of political and economic ...

According to ACLED data, there were over 200,000 incidents of political violence around the world last year. While a bulk of political violence is happening in conflict-torn regions in the Middle East ...

Europe can no longer assume the United States’ commitment to a liberal international order. What survived the end of the Cold War as a bipartisan consensus is unraveling, not solely because of Donald ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

This past month, I went to a panel at the University of Costa Rica with a group of refugees from Nicaragua. This group of fairly progressive individuals had fled Nicaragua due to political persecution ...

Over the last twenty years, two significant trends have rocked world politics. One is the rapid global spread of connectivity through the internet, smartphones, and social media. The other is the ...

The fledgling democracy under the German Weimar Republic after World War I soon collapsed into Nazi authoritarianism.