Here’s how Merriam-Webster defines the difference: “Because democracy is an abstract name for a system and republic is the more concrete result of that system, democracy is frequently used when the ...

New research from ETH Zurich University and the University of Essex has raised some ethical issues by asking whether ...

Only 45% of countries have a positive image of the United States, down from 76% last year, according to the 2025 Democracy ...

That said, behavioral research suggests that human nature might constrain how long democracies can survive and how widely they can spread. Let’s look at the data.

America's net global popularity was 22%. It is now underwater, and for the first time, the U.S. is less popular globally than ...

The Index exists to provide that clarity.” Unlike partisan commentary or reactive headlines, the Threat to Democracy Index offers a structured, nonpartisan approach to evaluating democratic ...

Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of ...

Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis says the media has a vital role to play in the preservation of democracy.

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most 21st-century autocrats are elected. Rather than violently suppress opposition ...