Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of tyranny: a dictatorship disguised as democracy.

A leading global democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.” ...

You sit in a cubicle. You stand behind a cash register. You press your knees into the ground, straining to fix a burst pipe. It is a Thursday at 11 a.m., and you are at work.

Italians did not have free and fair elections for the next 18 years. Hitler had watched Mussolini’s rise from Germany, and when his 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, a Nazi coup attempt, failed, he changed ...

In 1973, a violent coup installed a military dictatorship, led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet, wiping out Chilean democracy in one brutal stroke. “Nobody expected that it would be as bloody as it was ...

As more and more cabinet and government appointments come pouring out of Mar-a-Lago, voters - pro and con - are beginning to realize that Trump wasn’t kidding about transforming our ...

South Korean President Yoon's declaration of martial law in December was a wake-up call for Korean citizens, especially the younger generation, to the dire and dangerous state of the country's ...

In the midst of this fusillade of disruptions and attacks, he has also redecorated the Oval Office, transforming it from a rather dull — but reliably dignified — center of power situated ...

In “We the People, Sing Our Song,” an art project/“talking comic book” created by Neil Kendricks that explores the concept of democracy through voting and civic participation, the hardest ...

The Athens Democracy Forum last week explored the world’s schisms in the face of threats from technology and shifts in the world order. By Roger Cohen Roger Cohen is the Paris bureau chief for ...