Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

V-Dem’s aggregate index of the health of US democracy is back to 1965 levels, just after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet this time we see a classic example of an attempt by an executive to overthrow ...

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

A trio of reports on political freedom around the world raises timely alarms about autocratic tendencies. But the data also shows that the appeal of democratic values is resilient.

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one. A broad and inclusive tax base strengthens shared governance, while its ...

Donald Trump’s authoritarian drift in his second term places the country on a par with Hungary or Turkey, according to a ranking by Sweden’s V-Dem Institute ...

Acemoglu, who won the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on prosperity inequality among nations, spoke as part of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy’s ...

July 20, 2025 presents a fundamental issue facing our nation. Do we preserve our democracy or allow an autocracy to form? America is experiencing an unprecedented era of its history. I believe that ...

The United States is in a period with a “persistence of diminished democracy,” according to a report that will be released on Tuesday. It’s the third study released in the last week that concludes ...

President Donald Trump is dismantling U.S. democracy at an “unprecedented” rate, downgrading the U.S.’s democratic rating on ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...