A leading global monitor of democratic governance says the United States, under the Trump administration, has lost its status ...

American democracy under Trump is officially eroding faster than Russian democracy did under Putin.

The V-Dem Institute’s Democracy Report 2026 (titled “Unraveling The Democratic Era?”), considered one of the most prestigious and statistically rigorous assessments of global governance, gave ...

In just about a year, Donald Trump has reduced American measures of democracy and free speech to around the level of the ...

Donald Trump’s authoritarian drift in his second term places the country on a par with Hungary or Turkey, according to a ...

The wave of democratic backsliding, or autocratization, has been ongoing for 25 years and shows no sign of slowing down, according to the report, authored by a team lead by professor Staffan I ...

Nearly half the world’s population live in countries that will hold national elections this year, the largest such proportion in more than a century. But the big picture is complicated: “Over half of ...

Over half of the 60 countries holding national elections this year are experiencing a democratic decline, risking the integrity of the electoral process, as reported in the latest Democracy Report ...