A new report has found serious concerns about the state of global democracy as more countries slip in democratic performance.Global patterns show that democracy around the world continued to weaken ...

Speaking at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly yesterday, President Trump blasted the United Nations and questioned its purpose. He also called climate change a “con job.” And he warned European ...

The spate of military coups in Africa is starting to raise concerns about the future of democracy in the region. We spoke to five political analysts in four African countries for insight into the ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann ...

India fares very poorly in global democracy rankings not because the problems are worse in the country, but because Indians ...

(The American Curriculum): LANSING, Mich. — Bruising political fights are usual business in Becky Debowski’s eighth-grade social studies classroom. From a model Constitutional Convention to a ...

In Geneva, efforts to secure an international treaty to curb plastic pollution are in doubt on the final day of negotiations. Nearly 100 of the 184 countries gathered at the United Nations talks ...

New Delhi: India ranks among the countries with the highest levels of satisfaction with democracy, with 74 percent of Indians surveyed approving of it, while Japan recorded the lowest satisfaction ...

NMAF copy 39088019487362 gift from Jacquelyn Serwer. ANAC copy 39088018987867 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Always a Chocolate City -- Your coming is not for trade ...

How do nations thrive? Political scientist Michael Mazarr analyzes the qualities of democracy. Many democracies around the world are under strain, leading to a backward movement for many governments ...

Always a Chocolate City -- Your coming is not for trade, but to invade my people and possess my country: a native American world under siege, 1608-1790 -- Of slaving blacks and democratic whites: ...