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.

The Freedom House report was, overall, appropriately depressing. It found: “Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their ...

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

George Orwell’s work “1984” has always been fascinating as it delves deeper into the relationship between truth, facts, manipulation and societal control in a totalitarian society. It exposes how ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Roughly 3 in 4 American adults believe the upcoming presidential election is vital to the future of U.S. democracy, although which candidate they think poses the greater threat depends ...

Re “Introducing the Department of Mass Distraction” by Alex Beam (Opinion, Feb. 15): Between George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” the debate has raged: How will the fall of ...

On April 29, 1999, precision-guided NATO bombs tore through the brick facades of two defense-ministry buildings in Belgrade, the capital of the rump state of Yugoslavia. The targets were chosen more ...

Chile is a democracy that fell into dictatorship for nearly two decades. What were the warning signs? What the U.S. can learn from the fall of democracy in Chile On September 11th, 1973, Chile’s ...

I, and millions of Americans, are deeply disturbed by President Trump's refusal to comply with the orders of federal judges and the US Supreme Court. This is a constitutional crisis. No one is above ...