Australia is one of the world’s leading democracies, but we’re not immune from the pressures causing backsliding overseas.

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 ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

Are there more autocracies than democracies in the world today, and why does it matter? María del Carmen Sacasa (UNDP LAC) argues we’re in a paradigm shift, not a terminal crisis. Subscribe to GZERO's ...

Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past 40 years have proved that democracy comes at a great cost to those most marginalized. Demonstrators in São ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden White House after stepping off Marine One, on March 1, 2026 - Mark Schiefelbein/AP When ...

Amid a backdrop of global democratic backsliding and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States, Costa Rica, Netherlands, South Korea, and Zambia cohosted the second Summit for Democracy on March ...

Democracy today has come a long way since its earlier days. While some countries boast old traditions of democracy, what we mean by democratic governance today is characterized by open-ended systems ...

Most Americans learn as schoolchildren that our country is the greatest democracy in the world. Democracy is part of our national myth and, as such, the pretext for many of our most consequential and ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

When the first Trump administration authored its national security strategy in 2017, democracy figured prominently. It labeled democracy something that “we hold dear.” It said the democratization of ...