NPR's Scott Simon speaks to author Anne Applebaum about how the U.S. may be headed toward authoritarianism.

A prominent activist who organized Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has ...

If you have your own encouraging examples of what democracy in America looks like, I would love to hear them. You can write ...

Supporters of an Ohio constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access cheer its passage at a watch party in Columbus on Nov. 7, 2023. The state’s voters also defeated a legislatively initiated ...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted Americans to join the fight against the axis of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial ...

An unusual energy infused the “Save the Post” rally outside the Washington Post building Thursday: The publication had laid ...

It’s now impossible for Democrats to change the subject from the United States’ descent into authoritarianism, and they ...

Protect Democracy founder Ian Bassin talks about victories and setbacks in the effort to thwart authoritarianism ...

We have witnessed two human beings lose their lives on the streets of Minneapolis, their deaths recorded before the eyes of ...

Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.