Using Project 2025 as a blueprint, the group Democracy Forward says it has prepared a raft of potential legal challenges to ...

Meanwhile, the “only liberal democracy in the Middle East,” as Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu likes to say, is controlled by the far-right Likud party and executing a genocide in Gaza and an expanding ...

More recently, he has been of the opinion that liberal democracy is in crisis and in dire need of defense. The weakening of this long-dominant ideology represents an opportunity for political ...

Indeed, Kannangara claimed a new democracy like Sri Lanka needed universal free education ... social welfare was rolled back with liberal democratic states abandoning education to the whims of the ...

Trump voters made up a greater share of those who described American democracy as "somewhat threatened" or "very threatened." ...

“Democracy is a system in which [sitting] governments lose elections,” Przeworski says. The U.S. liberal democracy score has trended upward since 1900, though there have been dips. Political ...

Political commentator Angela Rye declared on CNN that "White folks" should face accountability "for not showing up to save democracy" if they don't vote for Vice President Kamala Harris next month.

Concern about the health of democratic governments has been rising worldwide, and one of the key metrics researchers use to measure the robustness of a democracy is its ability to conduct free and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

But it’s actually more like an object lesson, or a warning to those who insist that whatever else may go wrong, a stable and established liberal democracy cannot collapse into chaos ...

And will the United States remain a liberal democracy, or will its institutions gradually erode beyond recognition or repair? Early analysis of the election results suggests that Trump’s victory was ...