As 150,000 Russian troops marched across the Ukrainian border in February 2022, Donald Trump called it “genius.” “Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine… as independent,” Trump said in a radio ...

Speaking with democracy activists recently from Hungary and Poland, former President Barack Obama warned about the “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe,” even in countries once believed ...

During the 2024 campaign, voters were repeatedly told that democracy in America was under threat. Polls show that voters believed that — albeit for different reasons based on their political ...

In his hugely influential 1992 bestseller, The End of History and the Last Man, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously asserted that “history” as the German philosophers Hegel and Marx ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Twenty-one artists have come together to use their work to speak out for democracy during ArtPrize. The “Art of Democracy” is an exhibition of multiple social justice-themed ...

We are living in an authoritarian state. It didn’t feel that way this morning, when I took my dog for his usual walk in the park and dew from the grass glittered on my boots in the rising sunlight. It ...

Syria and the Strongman’s Democracy. Here, Syrian president Ahmad Al-Sharaa approaches the podium to speak during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, at ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher Justin Einolf, Northern Illinois University (THE CONVERSATION) The New ...

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