The coalescing partnership of autocracies led by China and Russia will impose strategic choices on Western democracies, no matter who wins the U.S. presidential election. Can the U.S. and its allies ...

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Global freedom and democracy have been declining for two decades, reaching historic lows, according to two reports just released from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Freedom House. It's hard to ...

In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously addressed the challenge of defining hard-core pornography by stating, “I know it when I see it.” If we apply that standard to President Donald ...

Global freedom and democracy have been declining for two decades, reaching historic lows, according to two reports just released from the Economist Intelligence Unit and Freedom House. To those of us ...

There are things we all can do to push back against and mitigate the autocratic turn our nation has taken. The Supreme Court announced a fast-track argument schedule in the most consequential voting ...

The historic prisoner release from Russia was thanks to the diplomatic work of a group of democracies to free over a dozen people from the autocratic regime of Vladimir Putin. Anne Applebaum's new ...

David Leonhardt sits down with M. Gessen to unpack this new phase of the Trump era. By David Leonhardt and M. Gessen Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of “The Opinions,” the editorial ...

Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time. Mass firings of civil servants, the dismissal of government watchdogs, ...