The last few weeks have been a particularly strange stretch in a campaign year that is unlike anything we’ve ever experienced. The country is poised at a great fork in the road, with a historically ...

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a ...

It has of late become en vogue, at least in some circles, to claim that the United States, rather than a democracy is, in fact, a republic. This begs the question: What’s the difference? Recently, I ...

The president who declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time has concluded that he needs to accept some imperfect but important friends. By Peter ...

Preserving Democracy is challenging people to share with us how they’re #ReadyToVote2024. We’re also collaborating with the Human Impacts Institute and looking at how democracy and the issue of ...

When U.S. President Joe Biden convenes his second Summit for Democracy on March 29, expectations will be modest. A new report from the research institute Varieties of Democracy suggests that 72 ...

Journalism and democracy are talked about as if their fate is tied together. But what really are their connections? Can journalism in its current practice protect both democracy and itself? Subbu ...

Mental health is linked to democratic health. During much of the last century, global waves of democracy ushered in systems of self-rule that replaced theocratic institutions of government. By ...