President Donald Trump’s “attacks on the press, academia, civil liberties, and dissenting voices” as reasons to downgrade the US in a research group’s index of liberal democracies. - Jon Cherry/AP ...

Following eight years of decline, 2025 marks a stabilisation of democracy scores that suggests an end to the global democratic recession. The index shows remarkable stability in the higher-ranked ...

One of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document. Credit...Photo illustration by Ben Denzer Supported by By Jennifer Szalai The United States Constitution is ...

EIU's 2025 Democracy Index shows that after eight years of decline, 2025 marks a stabilisation of democracy scores that suggests an end to the democracy recession is underway. Almost 75% of countries ...

EIU grades 167 countries out of ten according to the state of their democracy, and sorts them into four camps: full and flawed democracies, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. By that measure, ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report. The Varieties of Democracies ...